Video Guides on MCB
Finally, videos on MCB are here. It took some fiddling around with various options (youtube, flash player, progressive flash player, shockwave, video editing software, music generation, the works). Finally, this is the recipe that worked the best.
For video editing -> Nothing beats Pinnacle Studio. Very simple interface, yet loaded with features when you need them. The thing freezes on me at times, but the auto-save option ensures that i dont lose any work. I started off with version 9, but upgraded to 12 because of…
The need for background score. Version 9 does not have the option to generate background music automatically. Not unless you pay some exhorbitant amount to SmartSounds. Luckily Pinnacle Studio version 12 has got score generation built in. Which worked like a breeze. Music and video all together spun out into a mpeg-2 format. The next step was…
Making the video web-ready. Flash is the most popular format on the net, and while pinnacle has an option to directly output to flash, Sothink Video Encoder for Flash does a much better job. It also creates the output video in a manner that the video downloads progressively as viewers play the video. No more waiting for the entire thing to download before playing. Even 5MB FLV files seemed to play just fine on a regular DSL line.
Finally, posting it on the web. The beautiful thing is that the actual HTML code is not that ugly at all. And not a whole lot if it either. Its all written down here.
So there it is. Nice and easy. Here are some of the places on MCB with videos…
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