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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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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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How I Record My Videos

In this session we answer a member’s question regarding how and what settings we use to record our videos. We introduce the video recording and editing software called Camtasia and discuss the settings and the process we use for producing the videos. Video Transcript Okay the 2nd question Jared asked me today was about how [...]

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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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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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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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The Importance of Video Sitemaps

This member is adding self hosted videos to his site.  We discuss the role of video sitemaps, the content of video sitemaps and how to create a video sitemap.  I show him mine as an example.  We also discuss where the the video sitemap will be located. Video Transcript Rick: On to Richard. Richard is [...]

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Lesson 10 - Part 8 - Add a Video Using a Text Widget

Lesson 10 – Part 8 – Add a Video Using a Text Widget

The next thing we’re going to do is add a video to a text widget. Since this is code, I’m not going to use the Black Studio TinyMCE, I’m going to use the standard text widget. Adding Video Using the Standard Text Widget What I’m going to do is put the video in for “How [...]

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Lesson 10 – Setup Secure Content Delivery

Upload Content to Amazon S3 – Watch the Video Upload a video to the bucket File naming it becomes a URL no spaces no special characters Check permissions open/download – this ability gives complete access view permissions edit permissions Types of users everyone authenticated user Me If it’s private – no additional permissions If it’s [...]

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How to Add Self Hosted Videos to Your Site

There is an UPDATED VERSION of this video in a six part video series. Select this link to go to the first video: Self Hosted Videos The question was asked how to host your own videos and how to and how to add them to your site.  This is different than how to add YouTube [...]

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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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Opt-in Pop-Up after each Successfully played Video

A member asked if its possible to put a pop-up dialog box during or after the viewer successfully played the video. We discuss the ability of Camtasia Studio to add a link to the end of a video. We also briefly discuss using Microsoft Expression Blend. Adobe can probably do this as well. Next we [...]

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