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Video Course Hosting Etc. Developed with Camtasia Studio 8

by itworked
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I've developed a video based course with about 20 videos, approximately 3 hours worth plus some eBook type material.

My question is what is the easiest way to host the course with basically two goals. One is to have have efficient streaming of the videos. Its a high dollar course so I anticipate 50 to 100 customers, not thousands. The second goal is obviously to protect the videos so that only the true buyers have access.

Suggestions for how to architect the site and which tools to use? Does it need to be a membership site, should hosting be on my own server or elsewhere, etc.? The videos are created in Camtasia Studio 8 so it is pretty flexible on publishing options.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author KC Marketing
    My preferred setup is to use Amazon S3 hosting for all my videos and then place them in a membership site (I use Optimize Press with WishList Member). Amazon's hosting is fast, reliable and very cheap for streaming videos.
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      As KC mentioned, you need a membership site script to protect the videos from unauthorized access (although nothing is 100% safe, as any one of your members could easily download your videos and then re-upload them to file sharing sites). But having them inside a membership area would at least offer a minimal level of protection.

      And for any significant video bandwidth, I would also recommend hosting the videos on a CDN (ie Amazon S3). But if you are only going to have 50-100 members, then you could just as easily get by with a VPS setup at a regular webhost.

      Aside from that, you will also need a video player to stream the videos. Flowplayer and JPlayer are excellent, and both now support HTML5 video in addition to Flash. Just make sure that you compress the videos well, as there is a fine line between good video quality and small file size. I have been using Freemake lately to compress videos, and it does a great job.

      Also... a lot of video encoders that output to Flash will encode the video in a way so that it doesn't stream very well online, due to the fact that they put the video's metadata at the end of the file instead of the beginning (don't know if Camtasia does that or not, as I use other programs when encoding to Flash). So if you find that to be the case with any of the videos that you output to Flash (ie if they buffer a long time before they start to play back), then you can use the following tool to fix it... works like a charm...

      rndware - MetaData Mover
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