[Fernando Mol]

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

As you may already find out, those sites give you the code to embed the video with their own player. This code usually points to a swf file that plays the video.

If, in theory, you knew the actual location of the video file, not the player, you could point to it for your player.

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Sorry for the late answer. You probably already worked it out.

I don’t think is possible to position an element relative to what is in an iFrame, because the position needs a parent element to position itself.

You’ll need to place your element inside the WordPress page, then parent it there.

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Let me see if I understood: you have a wordpress blog and you want to maintain the navigation for your full site?

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Really hard to say, because is like asking what’s appropriate to pay for a meal… or a party. Basically you should pay what the people ask for, if you can afford it.

You can look for reference prices in sites like istockphoto, imagebank and clipart.com

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Actually, the original intention of Google was to be called Googol. This is the name of the number, but somebody made a misspelling when registering it and the guys like it.

In advertising a good name is one that is easy to remember and people can associate with positive things related to the company or product. Of course, if you have a punk band called “smelly feet” that’s positive… for a punk band.

It’s all about saving money. Of course, you can have a bad name and be successful, but you’ll need to repeat you name much more times for people to remember it.

Weird names of products that I like:

Lamb of God – metal band
Aladino (Aladdin) – peanut butter
TKT – beer

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This are the Codecs Camtasia works with when creating AVI files:

Microsoft Video 1
Intel IYUV
Cinepak
TSCC
DivX 6.8
Uncompressed

As you can see, most of them are very old (the 90’s).

I made some tests again with the TSCC and worked OK. I tested adding 1 keyframe every 30 frames and every 1 frame. Both worked, but I used short recordings at 15 fps.

Don’t capture 24fps if you are going to use 15fps as a final. Capture either 15 or 30 fps. Also, flash projectors can play a variety of formats, h.264 too. No harm in make a version with it and send it to the guys are going to use it so they can do their own test.

One last thing. I have received request from clients giving very specific instructions on the compression they need. I always give a call to the person that actually is going to transmit the video (not the office guy that has troubles sending an attachment). You’ll find that the request most of the time is not written in stone.

Maybe you can use a variable bit rate to improve your image quality without compromising file size. And I can tell you: the 13kbps are probably a misspelling. The first modem I had was 28kbps!

I have being using AME for a long time. It’s not as complete as Squeeze, but if you know how to tweak the options it will never let you down.

Good luck with your tests.

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I found that instead of the TSCC (the codec from Camtasia) you can use uncompressed full frames for the AVI file.

I just made a test and guess what? Works smootly.

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A client just asked me the same a couple of weeks ago. The problem was that the person I used to work was leaving the company and a new guy took the responsibility of the web page.

He was positively sure he can do it all and asked me for quick directions on what I did with their site.

I went to their office and answered all of their questions.

I know how much work it was for me to get that project done. I know doing and maintaining a site is not just about understanding basic HTML. Certainly, they’ll be able to update a couple of things, but sooner or later they’ll find a dead end. Who’ll they gonna call? Not the Ghost Busters.

The best thing I could do was Ron’s step number 5.

PS. New great clients arrived a week later.

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I had problems with AVI files generated from Camtasia. I captured them on the fly and saved as AVI.

The files had a fluid playback in Media Player, but when imported to Premiere or After Effects the frames were jumping or artifacts showed. I couldn’t find a fix.

It’s possible that Camtasia AVI files had a buggy codec, or maybe some settings should be tweak before you capture them.

Just sharing.

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I googled for “flash game template” and found some sites offering the Fla files, but not for free.

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