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Seriously battling with Camtasia Video embed

by LivingCovers
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Fellow Warriors,

I need your urgent help. I am working on a squeeze page in which I need to embed a Camtasia video. I have done all I possibly could but making no headway.

I have copied the code that came with the generated html but the video isn't showing up. What could be the matter?

PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS!
#battling #camtasia #camtasia video #embed #video #video embedding
  • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
    Did you upload it online? Did you make sure you uploaded all the supporting files and that they are in the correct place?

    Post a link so people can take a look.
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  • Profile picture of the author LonNaylor
    I've found that try to copy the html code from the Camtasia html production file and pasting it into another web page is a complete exercise in frustration.

    Maybe ya feel me here? lol

    Here's what I do:

    Use an IFRAME on the page you want to embed the video and to point to the html page that Camtasia generates.

    Turn off the borders and scrollbars for the iframe.

    Resize it until all of the contents of the video are visible (the video and the player controls).

    Make sure to keep ALL the files that Camtasia spits out in the same directory as the Camtasia html file you are pointing to.

    Works flawlessly...everytime.

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author seree
    Make sure you've uploaded all related scripts (*.js files) as well.

    It would be good if you can show your url here so we can inspect into more detail.

    Cheers!
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
      I've found that try to copy the html code from the Camtasia html production file and pasting it into another web page is a complete exercise in frustration.

      Maybe ya feel me here? lol

      Here's what I do:
      I always tell my clients...

      Don't ever use Camtasia to embed your videos.

      There are many reasons NOT to including lack of optimization, terrible scripting, heavy load and times.

      One of the biggest reason's used to be that they loaded their code with unecessary scripting and calls to flashplayer versions that caused some browsers to not be able to recognize that flashplayer was already installed causing the video not to appear ;-)

      I recommend to all my clients to save camtasia videos as avi, encode them to flv using professional solutions and embed them using professional players to avoid all the sucky aspects of camtaisa's own video embedding.
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  • Profile picture of the author picus
    Do you know if there is a camtasia tutorial somewhere on the net?
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    • Profile picture of the author YellowDot Software
      This isn't the answer to your question, but a better approach, I'm not a fan of having camtasia's branded player on my site:

      Get a copy of Flash
      Get a copy of JW FLV Player (Google it)

      (Optional) Get a copy of Premiere

      If you have premier you can record your audio and screen captures seperately and then edit them together for maximum effect. This is useful if you're not the perfect narrator.

      With the camtasia file, use flash's video exporter/importer to create an FLV.

      Then just configure jw player's html to point to your file, and enjoy having a full professional video player anywhere on your page.

      There's a lot of learning involved to do this of course and this is just a general outline to producing professional level web video

      Edit: Josh Beat me to it!
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      • Profile picture of the author LonNaylor
        Originally Posted by YellowDot Software View Post

        This isn't the answer to your question, but a better approach, I'm not a fan of having camtasia's branded player on my site:

        Get a copy of Flash
        Get a copy of JW FLV Player (Google it)

        (Optional) Get a copy of Premiere

        If you have premier you can record your audio and screen captures seperately and then edit them together for maximum effect. This is useful if you're not the perfect narrator.

        With the camtasia file, use flash's video exporter/importer to create an FLV.

        Then just configure jw player's html to point to your file, and enjoy having a full professional video player anywhere on your page.

        There's a lot of learning involved to do this of course and this is just a general outline to producing professional level web video

        Edit: Josh Beat me to it!
        Couple of items:

        1. By Camtasia's "branding" I assume you mean the preloader. All other aspects of the player can be easily branded with your own info & messages.

        To steal the preloader branding juice from Camtasia, check this tutorial:

        Screencast Profits - Branding with custom Camtasia Flash preloaders

        2. I'm a big proponent of YellowDot's tactic. I almost never use Camtasia Studio as my video editor 'cause it...well...sucks at it! Sony Vegas (any version) or Premier (any version) are infinitely better choices.

        3. I really like the JW Player but be aware that to use it for commercial purposes, strictly speaking, you need to obtain a commercial license for it. The response above just sounded a little like you could get it for free and do whatever you want with it.

        And Josh's standard answer here is just too accurate to argue with so...

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