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[Pam]

I've designed a website for a small hobby farm...and they want to add video
to their site - I don't have any problem doing that - but was wondering if
someone could point me in the right direction of trying to figure out how
much to charge to add the video ... and if there are any downfalls to doing
so?

All my websites - about 20 of them - are hosted on the 1and 1 server...

thanks
Pam

 

[vey]

I've designed a website for a small hobby farm...and they want to add video
to their site - I don't have any problem doing that - but was wondering if
someone could point me in the right direction of trying to figure out how
much to charge to add the video ... and if there are any downfalls to doing
so?

All my websites - about 20 of them - are hosted on the 1and 1 server...

thanks
Pam

I did this once. Just added a link to a WMV file. No need to make a
special page with an embedded player. I tried several video editors.
Real has one called Producer. MS has one called Window Media Encoder.
These are free.

Apple has one, for Quicktime but it costs. The recent Macs can see WMV,
and Real files but the ones that use OS9 can't.

Only pitfall is if your hosting company has Byte limits. Imagine what
could happen if Yahoo or Google Video indexes it and everybody and his
brother starts downloading it from your site. Remember the horror
stories about the huge bills people got years ago if they had something
everybody wanted to see?

I put mine in a subweb, requiring a username and password to get in,
which I put on the entrance page. Entrance page was not in the subweb.
Still, I got a call once from someone asking what the username and
password was. I couldn't remember, so I asked "What does the page say
they are?" Silence . . . "Oh."

 

[vey]

I did this once. Just added a link to a WMV file. No need to make a
special page with an embedded player. I tried several video editors.
Real has one called Producer. MS has one called Window Media Encoder.
These are free.

Apple has one, for Quicktime but it costs. The recent Macs can see WMV,
and Real files but the ones that use OS9 can't.

Only pitfall is if your hosting company has Byte limits. Imagine what
could happen if Yahoo or Google Video indexes it and everybody and his
brother starts downloading it from your site. Remember the horror
stories about the huge bills people got years ago if they had something
everybody wanted to see?

I put mine in a subweb, requiring a username and password to get in,
which I put on the entrance page. Entrance page was not in the subweb.
Still, I got a call once from someone asking what the username and
password was. I couldn't remember, so I asked "What does the page say
they are?" Silence . . . "Oh."

Forget to say that 240x320 300kbps WMV9 looks fine for *most* people.
They can double the size, but te picture won't look too bad. You can try
other settings if you like. The idea is to squash it down so low until
you can *barely* stand it. Perfection "costs" too much in downloading
time and Bytes.

 

[Pam]

thanks so much for the info - I'm still deciding whether I want to add this
feature to his website 'free' or charge a nominal fee for it.....

thanks again
Pam

 

[vey]

thanks so much for the info - I'm still deciding whether I want to add this
feature to his website 'free' or charge a nominal fee for it.....

thanks again
Pam

Free:
If you downsample a movie from a DVD (which I was doing), that can take
a long time since it takes a lot of crunching.

Plus, it will take a few tries to make you happy and learn how the
software works.