[Mike Smith]

Is the shooting outside of your normal hours …?

[Mike Smith]

Viral means that people send it to each other, not that you mass mail it. Many folks will not like very big video files in their in box. Many ISPs cap email file size at not very much (5 Megabytes is not untypical).

For all these reasons, you might do better to create great, fun videos that people want to watch (the wii hula example is just one approach) and mail people who’ve consented to receive stuff from you a series of links, each perhaps with a small image thumbnail to tempt. Then on the website hosting the videos make sure there’s a “mail link to a friend” button …

[Mike Smith]

This kind of thing might get you going https://www.evoluted.net/community/code/directorylisting.php

[Mike Smith]

Front of camera talent is always at a premium.

Great scripts are not easy to come by.

[Mike Smith]

Both of those appear to be working fine on Firefox here today.

[Mike Smith]

[walter biscardi] “The Project Files are your artistic work for which you are being paid.”

I might suggest that for many producers the raw footage is also their artistic work, which is perhaps where the issue arises. Clearly there can be circumstances where all footage must and should belong to the client (best reflected in contract) and circumstances where it will be more the work and under the ownership and control of the producer (again, best reflected in contract.)

Even though the producer in law probably normally owns the raw footage, clearly the client has an implied right to the use of that footage in their project, and common sense and courtesy would indicate care in any planned alternate or additional use of the footage – it could clearly cause a great deal of upset to a client in some circumstances.

But circumstances will vary. If a client pays for a sequence to be designed, constructed and filmed, reuse of that footage would seem problematic. But suppose the client pays for a few shots in a location that you see a use for in multiple projects; you undertake a lengthier filming trip (quite possibly not loading all costs into one project) and film far more material than you could ever use in the one project. Why, then, would you want to see all of that footage, – physical material and rights to use – transfer to one client …?

[Mike Smith]

https://www.clagnut.com/blog/2228/

[Mike Smith]

I guess it depends a lot on what you are looking for in web design software, and what your design and software skills are background are like. Template-driven design tools like the one you cite are not very useful to pro designers.

But if you’re happy with it, why change?
There is a tool from a graphics specialist company that aims, similarly, for fast and easy template-based output https://www.xara.com/us/products/webdesigner/

[Mike Smith]

Quality and download times – you have to trade these off of course.

Have you considered hosting your reels here in the COW’s reels section ..?

Currently Flash is very popular for playing video on the web. You could encode your videos to Adobe’s licenced VP6 format or to MP4. I don’t know if iWeb makes it easy to add Flash movies (e.g. YouTube movies), but the links below might help. If you do go for a Quicktime player for the vbideo in your web page, people with Macs should have no trouble viewing it, though a lot of Windows and other users do not have a QT plugin installed.

With Flash, you will be inserting at least two files into your web hosting service – a video player of some sort, which is a .swf file and which you place on your page, and then the video itlself, which could be either an .flv, .mp4 or .h264 file. .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video
https://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Movies.html
https://www.verticalmoon.com/tutorials/general/iweb/iweb.htm
https://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2009/01/embed_flash_video_flv_in_iweb_part_2.php
https://iwebunlimited.com/iwebtips/Entries/2008/10/1_9-_Flash_Video_in_iWeb_(using_Longtail_Video_JW_Player).html
https://flowplayer.org/
https://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Setup-Problems/15183/iweb-08-

[Mike Smith]

Kind of you to respond again Jameson. But I’m really trying to look past Dreamweaver, with its well known strengths and weaknesses, to see what more code-centric tools people might be using on the Mac, and how they feel about them.

My own current preference is for TopStyle for html / css (and Eclipse for php), though TopStyle is Windows only, and has limited javascript support.

I’ve been tempted by Aptana https://www.aptana.org/ but have yet to install and test it out: while it looks good on paper and is cross platform, I’ve no idea how it works in practice.

From a quick scan of the literature, I might be tempted by that or Amaya https://www.w3.org/Amaya/ , or if opting for a pay-for on the Mac then Coda https://www.panic.com/coda/ or bbedit https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ . But again, hard to recommend without the independent hands-on that I’d hoped forum users here might offer …!