TQNYC Tutorials > Video

Video can be used in TQNYC projects. There are a couple issues to realize before getting into how to make a video for your site.

• Video like all work is licensed and copyrighted and you must have permission of the owner to use it. Unless you made the video yourself from a camera you probably need permission to put it on your site. Unauthorized video will be removed from the server.
• Video files can be very large and exceed the 25MB of disk space each team is alocated. If you have a legitimate need for more space please contact the HelpDesk and include what you need the space for an how much space you will need.

Getting Video

There are two main sources for video for your site. Already produced video that has been released for public use or you have attained written permission to use is one. The other is video that you record with a digital video camera.

If the video is already produced and in a web format like Windows Media Video (.wmv) or Quicktime (.mov) it is ready to go. If your recorded video is in a camera you need to convert it to one of these formats.

Microsoft^™ Windows Media plays via the Windows Media Player. An encoder can be used to convert your video from your camera to this format. I do not believe you can edit with the encoder. Microsoft offers Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP to edit your video.

To learn more about Microsoft Movie Maker see this tutorial.

Apple^™ offers Quicktime as their video format. iMovie comes with Mac OSX as the video editing software. It will export to Quicktime.

To learn more about Apple Quicktime go here.

These are the primary solutions for working with video. More advanced editing software is available like Adobe Premier and Apple's Final Cut Pro.

Using Video on the Web

There are two options download and play or stream which means play while downloading. I believe Windows Media Video require a special server in order to stream. We are unable to provide this for teams. Quicktime will stream from any web server.

There are two options for presenting video on your web site. You can simply link to the file and a player (if installed) will open and play the video. The second option is to "embed" the player in a web page. This is done using HTML tags. You will have to edit the HTML or source of the web page in order to embed a movie.

Microsoft offers this as a guide for embedding Windows Media Content.Macromedia^&trade offers a tutorial for embedding Windows Media Player using Dreamweaver.

This link contains the parameters and examples of Quicktime embed tag elements.