Producing video for the web

Publishing your clips : Part 2

Creating and publishing your clip to the internet is easy using Real Producer. It will guide you through the steps needed to get your clip online.

• Part 1 : Set some basic details for each clip, convert your video
• Part 2 : Create a web page and Publish your video to a web server
  • Create web page
  • Pick a web page type
  • Save your web page
  • Preview or publish ?
  • Your connection details
  • Where do you view live ?
  • Using the published file with CaptionKit
• Part 3 : Advanced settings for better presentions

It takes under 1 minute to go through step 2, and you don't even need to know how to make a web page at all, as the program does it all for you ! The only things you do need are somewhere to store your clip (a web server is normally just fine), and a user name and password.

Almost all internet providers offer you some web space to store clips and web pages online. This can range from 10 to over 25 Meg of space - enough for a couple of hours of video or audio at dial-up quality. It might take a few minutes to send your clip to the web server, please be patient.

We show 'Create a web page' steps here, because when you do this, Real Producer then allows you the chance to load your clip up to your web server in a very straightforward way.

If you are familiar with creating web pages, you can skip these steps and read on.

1. Create Web page

From the Real Producer menu (above), click Tools, then choose 'Create web page' to begin. You will first be asked to choose the clip. Browse your computer for the file you created in Step 1.

The dialog which comes up when you press the 'Next' button looks like the picture below.




2. Pick a web page type

Clicking 'Next' shows the following page. Just choose the default shown below. You can pick option 2 if you want a web page which will play your video in the browser, but there's no need to be too concerned about that here.

This is because 'Create a web page' is needed for Real Producer to publish your video to the web. You may not want to use the web page it creates, but this is the easiest way to get your video onto the web server




3. Save your web page

Click Next , then choose a file name below to save your (temporary) web page as.
The default is normally fine.




4. Preview or Publish

You can choose to Preview your clip from the web page you have just created. Click the caption (title of the clip) in the web page, if you want to see how it works.

CaptionKit will produce much the same effect, but your subtitles will be added to the clip and the web page, transcript and other information will be published at the same time as the clip.

You are now ready to publish your video clip to the internet. Click 'Publish web page' and you're ready to begin. Real Producer will helpfully remember where you just saved your web page and media file.

5. Publishing : Set your connection details

These final screens allow you to specify what type of server to publish to. Normally, selecting 'standard web server' is fine. If you have a 'Real Networks Server', you are very lucky and probably don't need to read this tutorial !

You may wish to experiment with the other options if you have an odd service provider like AOL or Geocities.

The following screen asks for four pieces of information. This will be available on request from your internet service provider or 'hosting provider', and refers to which of their servers you will store your video or audio files on.

You will need the following information from your hosting provider :

1. Server name, eg ftp.geocities.com
2. File directory, eg content
3. User name, eg joebloggs
4. Password, eg mysecretpassword
6. Publishing : Where will you view the file from ?

As a final step, you now supply Real Producer with the name of the web server where your live file will be accessed. This is likely to be different than the FTP server which receives your files. What you are looking for here is a name beginning 'www.' , eg www.geocities.com

On the web server, you will normally have a directory in which the published files are visible. An example might be 'content'. Real Producer will show the full path to your file when you enter these values.

With the example above, you would have a www adddress of your file such as http://www.geocities.com/content/myfile.html

When you enter this address into a web browser, you will see the web page real player has created for you. Clicking 'Next' twice willl start the file upload process. This may take several minutes depending on how large the media file is and the speed of your internet connection.

7. How CaptionKit uses these files

CaptionKit only requires the video file name to be supplied.

The other files which are placed on the web server are for your convenience. You specify the full www file name to captionkit when starting a new project. You can read more about this here.

It is quicker to work using the video file stored locally, on your own computer. Later, just before you publish your project, you can change the file name to a www address. Or, you can do this after publishing, on your user admin page which will show full project details for the captions you are publishing