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Create a video that asks for the visitors name first

by severt
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Hi,

Is this possible? I'd like to know their firstname so I can use it later on in the video. So when they visit my page, the video should say "Enter your first name" and hit the play button.

Then it should play the video and show that $variable, in this case the name on certain spots.

Anyone?
#asks #create #video #visitors
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFranks
    I'm not sure how this'd work. Do you mean to program a script inside of a video? In that case I don't think you can, or if you can, it'll probably be complicated. Try checking out on the Programmers sub-forum - they're probably better help.

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    • Profile picture of the author IM Inc
      Are you trying to make your video more personal by using visitor's name? If that's the intention, I am afraid it won't work.
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  • Profile picture of the author severt
    It doesn't work marketing wise? Or it isn't possible?
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  • Profile picture of the author GlobalPMT
    I think this is doable one way or another. But if you wanted it to be a part of the video, the system might have to render the video on the fly which could take a lot of server processing power and may not be feasible with heavy traffic. However, it might be possible with programming to have several videos play in sequence without interruption and the one in the middle would be the tiny video that you called up stating a name (could be computer read or possibly spoken realizing you will never get all names if it is spoken). That tiny video could more easily be rendered. Another possibility would be to have the video playing and then at a certain time/frame it cues an audio file that plays at the same time the video is playing. That way it should be seamless to the viewer. In the end, if you are hiring this out, I'm not sure it would be worth the money invested since it could get complex. I've charged for things like this and on the surface seems like it could get really expensive. From a marketing perspective, we can guess all day long but the only real way to know is to test it. This could be interesting... let us know if you proceed and how it goes. Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      I have actually done something very similar to this in the past. I created a normal video, intentionally leaving blank areas at specific points in the video. I embedded the video in jPlayer (not to be confused with JW Player) on my webpage.

      Then I used jQuery to overlay a text div on top of the video at the exact times that the blank places in the video appeared (you can use Javascript "event listeners" to trigger actions during specific points in a video). FYI, jPlayer's API is really good for triggering event-based stuff via Javascript, which is why I like it better than all the other web video players for stuff like this.

      And if you want to get fancy with the text overlays, you can use PHP's GD or ImageMagick library to render really nice-looking, anti-aliased text "on the fly", so that it actually looks like it's part of the video (as opposed to the usual "pixelated" looking text that you get with regular HTML text).

      If you're comfortable with Javascript/jQuery/PHP, it's not too terribly difficult to set all this up. If you're not a coder, you'll definitely have to hire someone for the job.
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  • Profile picture of the author gwpmike
    Yes it's possible, I've seen it done before. I think it was a company called Global Domains International which is basically an MLM that sells domains.. however, the squeeze pages they use first ask for the visitors name and then it generates an animated video that uses the subscribers name (using a text to speech generator or something similar). I don't know how exactly you would you about doing this other than outsourcing it on elance or odesk. It probably won't be too cheap to get it done, though.
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