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What's the best option to make and put videos on my site?

by gjd6599
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What is the best option to make screen capture videos, and get them on my site or blog. I looked at easy video player 2, but I guess that is only a player, that makes loading videos I already have, onto my site easy, or hosting them on amazon s3.

I also tried the free Cam Studio, but that makes them in a format that does not work, and I tried using two converters, without success.

Does anyone have a suggestion, on what is the easiest way to make the screen capture videos, and also get them on my site? I know camtasia is popular, but does that do both, or is that just for screen capture.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Vraibel
    Camtasia does pretty much everything for you. I haven't used it in a while and I think it may be $300 or so to purchase but I'm pretty sure that they give you an embed code to put it on your site. I could definitely be wrong about that though.
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  • Profile picture of the author KevinBurns
    Camtasia can be used for screen capture as well as providing you with embed codes inside of an html page that you can you just copy and paste into your site. They also have features on the newer version that allow you to upload directly to youtube after you have produced you videos.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Ning Lo
    I also use Camtasia..

    Well worth the money.

    Cheers,

    ~Gary
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  • Profile picture of the author vtotheyouknow
    Hey Glenn,

    If you have a Mac, screenflow is the way to go.

    In terms of putting videos on your site, what you use really depends on what you're doing.

    For hosting videos, Amazon Cloudfront works very well and costs peanuts.

    For protecting you content from being stripped, you'll want to brand all of your videos within either Screenflow or Camtasia with your URL and maybe use some sort of URL hiding plugin. You mentioned Easy Video Player, which is the most expensive option.

    Then you have SecureDL, S3 Flowshield and there are a few others. I can't recommend S3 Flowshield as I've never used it. I use SecureDL and it works quite well but it took me a lot of back and forth with one of the developers to get it to do what I want and I'm quite tech savvy. These plugins either come bundled with a player or allow you to use some sort of free player.

    If you need a membership plugin, S2Member is fantastic and unbelievably versatile and intuitive.

    I've also heard that profits theme offers some sort of content protection beyond page restrictions but you'll have to look into that.

    Good luck!
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