My YouTube Trials and Tribulations
Hello friends and neighbors. I come to you today with a heavy heart.
I’ve spent about 20 hours per day for the last five days trying to accomplish the following:
- Create a Camtasia video
- Get said video up to YouTube
- Display said YouTube video on this blog
Please keep in mind I had never done any of these things before. And, sadly, I was able to accomplish all but number three. But first let me tell you about numbers one and two…
Camtasia is a great program, or so I’m told. I watched each of the first six tutorials on how to use it at least two times each. But things didn’t exactly work out exactly as depicted in the tuts. For me, anyway.
It could, of course, be my machine. It’s old and woefully lacking in certain areas. First, it only has one gig of RAM. Second, the video card only has 32 megs of on-board RAM. BUT, it’s a screamer! It has dual Pentium 4 Xeon chips and can keep up with even the latest, greatest technology. Maybe just not in the full-motion video arena.
Okay, so my first—and biggest—problem was (is) computer response. I was trying to make an on-screen tutorial about autoresponders and how to set them up. It turned out to be impossible because with my browser (FireFox 2) and Camtasia (Studio 5) running everything slowed to a crawl. I’d click a link in FireFox and it would take up to a minute to load the page! I tried closing all other programs, tried lowering my screen resolution down to 1028×764 and cutting my color depth down to as low as it will go. No joy; nothing helped.
So I scrapped that idea and tried a Photoshop tutorial. Recording goings-on in Photoshop was at least doable, but still very slow and choppy. Maybe with practice I could get used to it, but I’d have to spend a lot of time editing out all the wait times between clicks and responses.
My quest to find out how to fix the problem continues. My next trouble was with YouTube. Trying to find out the best format and resolution for YouTube took hours. And I’m still not sure; it seems every video I watched on the subject recommended something different. But I was able to get my lame video up and watchable. The audio even works. Tip: until I learn more, I’m using the .mov format.
Please click the link at the end of this post to watch the video.
Okay, that takes me to my last problem—getting the video to display here.
After many long hours of hair-pulling and head-banging, I finally found out why my embed code kept disappearing from my post here. (A big THANK YOU to all you Fortunate500 members for trying to help!) It wasn’t anything I was doing wrong. And it wasn’t any glitch in YouTube’s embed code.
It turns out the owner of the company hosting this blog (myccblog) does not allow Java scrips to run here. All that work for nothing! I messaged the owner requesting that he allow Java til at least February 2nd. I’ve not received a response from him yet but if you return here and see a video, you’ll know he said yes. No vid means either he didn’t answer or his answer was no.
One last thing: just before I sat down to write this, I put my video up on MetaCafe. I tried their embed code because it didn’t look like it had any script in it. That didn’t work either. Methinks my efforts in this endeavor are doomed.
Lesson Learned: NEVER host your stuff with anyone other than yourself.
Thanks for reading. Oh, BTW, the video is about How To Make A Video Without a Camera Using Photoshop and Camtasia.
Paul H. Livingston
January 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Hi Paul
Just read your post about how hard it has been to make a video. . Totally with you. . besides waiting on technology, this stuff always takes large chunks of time. .
I guess you’re going to move your blog now? Have you decided where and have you bought your domain name??
All the best!
Derrick
January 18th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Yes it does! Awful hard to keep up sometimes.
I’ve had another domain and blog set up for some time now. I just hadn’t used it. So it gets no traffic or anything. I *was* able to get the video there with no problem. It’s:
http://secretaffiliatemethods.com
January 18th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Paul, why don’t you just redirect this site so it goes to your other site? and copy all the content over? (I believe you’ll need to back up your mysql database and restore on the other server? - probably best to get your other server’s support staff to help u?
Derrick
January 18th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Thanks Derrick, I’m looking in to that now
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January 21st, 2009 at 7:02 am
But Vince, isn’t CamStudio already free? I’ll pop in on your blog a see what’s up.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
I have not even started yet, so you are ahead of me.
I added you to my blogroll.
Peggy Schoonover
February 7th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Hi there.
YouTube does not use JavaScript for embedding videos, it uses the tag to embed a “Flash” video (Javascript would be a tag).
The host may be stripping out these tags from pages but I cannot think why unless they want you to upgrade and pay more to use it.
If you asked your web host if he can allow “Java” to work on your website he will most definitely say no as Java is very different to JavaScript.
The difference between Java and Javascript is, to put simply, Java requires software installed on the server before it will execute (hence why most web host won’t allow it as it costs more for them) but Javascript executes within the user’s browser so it only needs a Javascript-enabled browser to run.
I don’t see any good reason why a host would forbid Javascripts or and if they do you should really think about changing your web host.
Hope that helps somewhat. Please let me know how you get on.
Regards,
Mark
http://www.authentictechnology.co.uk
February 11th, 2009 at 6:02 am
Hey Paul
Thanks for your recent kind and supportive comment, I was reading your post and understand the troubles your were going through in term of video creation and computer resources.
Just wondering are you running windowx xp or vista? either Operating system, if you upgrade your RAM Memory by anotehr 1GB, there will be a noticeable difference.
Plus, I’m assuming your quite knowledgeable with Computers is that when you install your extra RAM, you may want to check if you can use some of the extra ram for video.
I know some PC’s do it even when they have video/graphic card installed as well.
All the best
Nigel
February 17th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Hey Paul, Vince here
If you go to your post and hit edit, their is a option to put the video on your blog. Just copy the code right in the post.
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