Dreamweaver, Flash, Video Kit

[Ezsteve]

First, any who read this, When "Murry" answers save the response, Murry is gold

I have a school site.
I want to put up video files on the site. They will be from 30 seconds
(intros, and short topics), all the way up to 15 minute learning segments (a
number of them!).
I am already using screen recorders for swf's in certain instances; but now it
looks like digital video is going to be needed as well.
I have Macromedia Studio MX 2004 Pro, and thanks to "Murry", I have redone the
base website over using Dreamweaver MX 2004.
My Flash MX 2004 skills are still suspect.
I have read a little about Sorenson Squeeze, Flix, and various codec.
I have looked over the info about some players, like "Wimpy".

It appears to me that Flash type FLV's are the way to go, Yes, No?

I saw that Macromedia has a Video Kit for $99 that says you can make use of
FLV funtion, place the files on your site and do it with Dreamweaver.
Is the Video Kit a neccessity?
Could the process be done using just the programs in the Studio MX 2004 Pro
(Flash and dreamweaver), or must you have the Kit, or another codec like
Wildform Flix?

I thought I would post here in hope of someone with a higher skill level than
mine relative to video and the net would give me either some definitive answers
or at least a path to scratch out some spefic answers for myself.
I don't mind spending the $99 for the Macromedia Video Kit, but I would feel
real silly if I found that it really wasn't needed.
Appreciate some direction on the above.
Also if someone has already been involved with a similar project (production
and hosting of video distance learning segments) I would love to know your
solutions (streaming using a hosting service, streaming using your own
site/server, progressive download, etc.)
Thanks,
Steve

[danilocelic *TMM*]

Ezsteve wrote:

> It appears to me that Flash type FLV's are the way to go, Yes, No?

I think FLV's are a good way to go if you want to display video on the web.

> I saw that Macromedia has a Video Kit for $99 that says you can make use of
> FLV funtion, place the files on your site and do it with Dreamweaver.
> Is the Video Kit a neccessity?
> Could the process be done using just the programs in the Studio MX 2004 Pro
> (Flash and dreamweaver), or must you have the Kit, or another codec like
> Wildform Flix?

You do not ahve to have the Video Kit to be abel to add video to your
pages. It doe make it easier and it ioncludes Sorenson Squeeze lite so
taht you can export your current video file into FLV format, but those
aren't the only places you can get that functionality.

A Flash extension that allows cretion of a video player:
[url]http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=BBA23[/url]

A Dreamweaver video player extension (based upon the Flash one above):
[url]http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=1AA94[/url]

Here's a page that lists a few players:
[url]http://www.flvplayer.com/[/url]


If you have existing FLV files and they dont' seem to play properly,
then make sure you hvae the proper metadata in them, you can use a
program like the FLV MetaDate Injector:
[url]http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/[/url]

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