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?
- Produce the Camtasia Flash output files as usual
- Screen capture the video player as it will appear on the page. Get plenty of extra space around edges.
- Open in Windows picture manager
- Crop to exact size, plus about a pixel each way. You can adjust the height/width separately using the middle bars.
- Overwrite original capture and save to the “outer folder” of the camcast.
- Pull to Adobe Photoshop Elements
- Overlay layer: “archived stamp shadowed.psd” found in the FR blog folder
- Now hit to “save to Web”.
- Save as a jpg, medium quality, progressive.
- Save that jpg into the inner folder of the camcast. Give it a name that matches all the files: “example.jpg”
- Now edit that blog entry and upload/insert that jpg. Insert as “full” and “no link”
- Now link that jpg to http://fineremodel.com/archive
- 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
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