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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site

Learn how to host your own videos on your site using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin. We’ll show you how to upload videos to your site, configure the plugin, add a video to a post or page, and how to add a video to the sidebar.

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Lesson 10 – Part 1 – Upload Content to Amazon S3

Create a Membership Website – Upload Content to Amazon S3 So let’s dive right into it. Last week we stopped once we had set up our Amazon S3 account and we had uploaded a single video to our video bucket. That is where we’re going to start off today. So we need to login to [...]

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Lesson 9 – Part 1 – Video Hosting Options – hosted, self hosted, download

Create a Membership Website – Video Hosting Options We are going to start off here today talking about video hosting options. I think there are probably three types of video delivery methods. The first kind is hosted, and that is the kind you are probably most familiar with. Secondly, there is self-hosted which puts you [...]

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Lesson 9 – Part 2 – Video Hosting Considerations

Create a Membership Website – Video Hosting Considerations When making a choice about this there are a number of considerations that you need to keep in mind. The first is playback quality. Playback quality has a number of functions, and one of them, of course, is the playback format. You are familiar with this concept [...]

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Lesson 10 – Part 2 – Configure S3FlowShield – General Options

Create a Membership Website – Install and Configure S3FlowShield There is only one plugin that I know of that can do what we are going to do here now, and that is the S3FlowShield plugin. So we come back over here to the site and go down to the “week 9 Resources” and go to [...]

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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site – Part 2 – Upload Videos to Your Site

This is part 2 of an updated and expanded version of an earlier lesson on using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin to host your own videos. Now that we’ve installed the plugin we learn how to upload videos to our site so that they are accessible to the plugin. Video Transcript And what we’re going [...]

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Lesson 9 – Part 3 – Video Hosting Scorecard, Hosting Solutions

Create a Membership Website – Video Hosting Score card for Hosted Solutions So having said all of that, I want to talk for a few minutes about my score card then, my evaluation of hosted solutions. I have used several different systems in the course of delivering videos on this site, and while we are [...]

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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site – Part 3 – Configure the FV WordPress Flowplayer Plugin

This is part 3 of an updated and expanded version of an earlier lesson on using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin to host your own videos. Now that we’ve installed the plugin and uploaded videos we learn how to configure the plugin to play those videos. Video Transcript So we have this range of settings. [...]

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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site – Part 4 – Why Not Use the Media Library Instead of FTP?

This is part 4 of an updated and expanded version of an earlier lesson on using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin to host your own videos. In this part of the lesson I explain why I suggest using FTP to upload your videos rather than using the Media Library. Video Transcript Let’s check in on [...]

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Lesson 9 – Part 5 – Rick’s Suggested Video Hosting System

Create a Membership Website – Rick’s Suggested System So that is my scorecard and assessment on all of those options. Now I am going to tell you what my suggested video delivery system is. Before I do that, I want you to understand what my criteria are. I am doing this to make a living [...]

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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site – Part 5 – Add a Video to a Post or Page

This is part 5 of an updated and expanded version of an earlier lesson on using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin to host your own videos. In this part of the lesson we add a video to a post or page. Video Transcript Okay so now I’ve got the video in our hosting account ready [...]

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Lesson 9 – Part 6 – Set Up Amazon S3

Create a Membership Website – Setup an Amazon S3 Account We are going to wrap up today by setting up an Amazon S3 account. Then next week we are going to adjust the schedule a bit so that we can talk about setting up the S3FlowShield player with Amazon S3, and then we will look [...]

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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site – Part 6 – Add a Splash Screen to the Video

This is part 6 of an updated and expanded version of an earlier lesson on using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin to host your own videos.  In this part of the lesson we demonstrate how to add a splash screen to a video. Video Transcript Let’s add a Splash image here. Now Splash image is [...]

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Lesson 9 – Deliver Your Video Content

Video Hosting Options – hosted, self hosted, download – Watch the Video Hosted What is a hosted video? examples – YouTube Screencast.com Vimeo EZwebPlayer VideoPress What they do – Generally encode the video Convert the raw file into smaller formatted versions Optimized for streaming Strips out what it doesn’t deem necessary Provide embedding of a [...]

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How to Use Video Transcripts

In this session, we discuss how to use video transcripts for SEO purposes. We also show how to upload transcripts to YouTube. Video Transcripts Rick: Tell me about your question the YouTube transcripts? Ken: Well, as I’m starting to try to act on all these good things we’re learning and one of the things you [...]

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Video Hosting

A member asked where we host our videos. We discuss the pro’s and con’s of self hosting videos and then hosting with streaming video providers such as VideoPress or screencast.com. I also discuss why I’m moving my video hosting to Amazon S3 Cloudfront. Select the link below to watch a high definition version of this [...]

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