[Mike Smith]

Hi Matt.

It’s not too clear from your post whether you have much editing experience – which could affect answers to your question. If you’re new to it, doing a decent job may take you more time.

First rule of editing … things often take longer than you think. Second rule … the more people have a say in evaluating and contributing to the edit before it’s accepted, the longer the edit will stretch. Are you sure a fixed fee is more appropriate than an hourly rate, and if so how do you plan to control the edit and review cycle?

Then, crucially, let’s hope and assume the footage was legally acquired. The improvised shooting arrangements suggest some client resource, but not all that much. If this is a pirate shoot, you’d be well advised to stay entirely clear. If they have the rights, it’s surprising to shoot a high-value event in the way indicated –

You don’t say whether the material is captured in high or standard definition. Hi def will increase your processing needs, probably your editing time and perhaps your budget.

I’m a bit a surprised by choice for the transferred material (Panasonic SD codec from a Sony hi-def-capable camcorder). It may be wise to check whether two different models of camera were used, and to reassure yourself about how much of a colour match there is between the two sources – how much of a colour correction challenge you are going to face specially if you do go for an all-in fixed fee and not a time rate.

Things that might give concern: how good is the music recording? Is your client realistic about what you can achieve – is s/he expecting a BBC multicamera live shoot look from two semipro cameras and you?

The compression format of your hard drive material isn’t indicated. For choice of editing route / format, balancing the speed and convenience of editing in standard def (like the DVCPro stuff) against the more compressed and harder to handle hi def formats is a tricky choice.

Then you actual question: your hour allocation is possible but you may turn out to need much longer. £25 per hour would be a good rate for the client for a pro freelance editor in London – possible, if on the less-pro or lower end. Your edit equipment hire costs seem unrealistically low. I see no mention of software costs so assume you hope to hire a working system from somewhere. If you hire a system in a facility, your dry hire bill is likely to go over budget (specially as your days spiral.)

[Mike Smith]

You could try the suggestions here https://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/How-to-disable-the-Right-click-context-menu/2479

[Mike Smith]

No doubt you’ve searched this for free downloads. You may be able to find one you can customize – https://www.treecardgames.com/solitaire-card-games.htm ??

Otherwise, it’d be a task for a programmer (probably Flash, though you could do actionscript) to write you a version with graphics of your choice.

[Mike Smith]

Hi Victor

You surely must have set the video path yourself, either in a direct path reference in javascript or by editing the video.xml file, as the directions suggest … https://www.woosterwebdesign.com/flvplayer/instructions.html

Or am I missing something …?

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Edit the 'videos.xml' file using a text editor (Notepad, WordPad, TextEdit).

Add a <vidNode> tag for each FLV:

<vidNode flv="1.flv" img="1.jpg">Short description of video</vidNode>

each vidNode has 2 variables or "attributes":

* flv (name of the FLV file)
* img (name of the thumbnail image file)

Type in the video's description between the opening <vidNode> and closing </vidNode> tags. This will show up as a caption underneath the selected video.

If you'd like to add basic text formatting or a hyperlink to the description you can do so by inserting html tags. If you use html tags in the description, you must wrap the description in CDATA tags as follows:

<vidNode flv="1.flv" img="1.jpg"><![CDATA[Man falls from tree, breaks ankle. <a href='https://www.yahoo.com'><b>Read More</b></a>]]></vidNode>


[Mike Smith]

Typical authoring software, to link together multiple video clips with other bits and pieces, includes Director https://www.adobe.com/products/director/
Toolbook, now under the SumTotal brand https://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/toolbook-elearning-content.html
Authorware https://www.adobe.com/products/authorware/

and at a more budget end you might get what you want to work in Flash or in Illuminatus Opus https://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk/

There are probably other guides than https://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/instructional.html

There are some “standards” for managing online courses – if your client uses one of those, you need to know about it and make sure your tool produces output to that standard.

Creating interactive learning is normally a team game, and there’s a big place for someone in the key contact / producer role to get all the specs really tightly defined, get a video team and a programming / wuhtoring team together, and manage the project.

Good luck with it.

[Mike Smith]

The data is being sent from your form, so the problem may be in your php script.

It does seem you have an issue, though: here, pressing the submit button (with data in the comments text field) creates an http post but also redirects the browser to google …

[Mike Smith]

Yes. You’d have to give your target html elements individual ids. And your javascript would then select those elements and write into them.

If you want to do it you’d use something like …

document.getElementById(‘elementid’).innerHTML = content

Have a look at
https://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascript-innerHTML.php

innerHTML is a deprecated element, but is supported at least in IE and Firefox, and maybe others (you’d need to search or test). There are more lengthy standards-compliant approaches – have a look at
https://javascriptkit.com/javatutors/dynamiccontent4.shtml

https://domscripting.com/blog/display/35
https://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_html.html
https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_html_innerhtml.asp

Of course a small percentage of specialist web viewing tools or browsers don’t use javascript, and some users have javascript disabled.

Using iframes might be easier, unless you are not changing very much text.

[Mike Smith]

If the page is not to reload, then you’ll be wanting to use something clientside so not php. Iframes should work, with your link target set to be the iframe, though you could also use javascript to write new data into your changeable area if you wanted to.

[Mike Smith]

https://www.w3schools.com/CSS/css_pseudo_classes.asp
https://www.developingwebs.net/css/hover.php

[Mike Smith]

I too think that there are lots of pluses in hand coding.

But it does take a fair bit of time and effort to master – and a reasonably technical mind set.

For many people who want a site but don’t want to spend much time on the technical aspects, a relatively simple wysiwyg tool can be useful.

That one does allow for really fast prototyping – and uses a strange device with putting text into lots of divs to enable quite striking page wrap effects around irregular images …