As I began to publish my flash videos in WordPress, page loads became slower and I became aware that I was wasting my server bandwidth because all videos load when the page loads.

So, I decided to only have one “blog entry” video live on the homepage at a time.

The others will look like videos except for a small tag that says, “Archived – click for more info”. They will actually be a jpg with a link to a page where folks can subscribe to my archive.

So, what process will I use to keep all this as foolproof as possible?

  1. Produce the Camtasia Flash output files as usual
  2. Screen capture the video player as it will appear on the page. Get plenty of extra space around edges.
  3. Open in Windows picture manager
  4. Crop to exact size, plus about a pixel each way. You can adjust the height/width separately using the middle bars.
  5. Overwrite original capture and save to the “outer folder” of the camcast.
  6. Pull to Adobe Photoshop Elements
  7. Overlay layer: “archived stamp shadowed.psd” found in the FR blog folder
  8. Now hit to “save to Web”.
  9. Save as a jpg, medium quality, progressive.
  10. Save that jpg into the inner folder of the camcast. Give it a name that matches all the files: “example.jpg”
  11. Now edit that blog entry and upload/insert that jpg. Insert as “full” and “no link”
  12. Now link that jpg to http://fineremodel.com/archive
  13. In the video archive, type the title and link it to the html for the video at homepage. Example: http://s174823996.onlinehome.us/shelfmatls/shelfmatls.html