This is my first Brightcove test. I’ve known, seen and even embedded Brightcove in my blog, but I finally got my own account, very easy by-the-way, uploaded this video of mine, and TA DA! We are starting to do some tweaking of how we package and deliver video here at the paper, and I am [...]
This is my first Brightcove test. I’ve known, seen and even embedded Brightcove in my blog, but I finally got my own account, very easy by-the-way, uploaded this video of mine, and TA DA! We are starting to do some tweaking of how we package and deliver video here at the paper, and I am falling in love with Brightcove. If your paper is thinking about video delivery, check-out Brightcove.
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Can you explain a little more why you are never building a flash video player again? Is it because of the quality? The metadata? Is there any worries that Brightcove might have rights to use the video on their servers for commercial purposes? Does this mean no more video in an interactive at the Merc? Or is it because Brightcove can help make money off the video?
I know MediaStorm and WP use Brightcove but haven’t seen many other news sites using this.
Just wondering!
He didn’t mean it literally…
brock is right. i didn’t mean it literally.
But my main point is the effort and knowledge it takes to build a flash player with the kind of functionality as the BC player is damn hard if you’re not a programmer. Which I am not. I have been trying to learn php mysql etc. To get this done for us, but what a pain. The paper waNts to be able to have readers share, email, embed, our video players, not to mention ease of uploading and maintaining the video player and for a small shop like ours, places like BC are great, easy to use, upload, create, maintain and skin players with easy ad placement. I know the WP pays the ‘pro’ price which gives you all the benifits of the player and you keep your revenue. What I’m saying is papers should invest in this tool. Why have the paper re-invent the wheel when somebody already has a better mouse trap? Yes you’re right for the free BC option. But not the pay for the BC service.
-r
This is all very helpful, especially since I’m in the process of doing a total makeover of my website and adding video. Many thanks again for keeping this site going. I now visit it daily.
By the way loved your travel video. Was it my imagination or were you shooting with everything under the sun–video, stills, time-lapse. Nice music, too. And I liked the eye blinking effect. Hope you didn’t miss any of your cconnections.
Brightcove is amazing. It’s YouTube with videos that look awesome. My paper (Northwest Florida Daily News) uses a basic free brightcove account for our video. Though we’ll soon be going to the pro plan as our corporate people (Freedom Communications) signed a deal. Check out the list of
companies using brightcove. There’s really nothing the player can’t do or you can’t program it to do, so it allows you to focus on creating video instead of all the other technical stuff that eats away at your time.
PS – That’s an awesome video. Did security bother you for taking shooting (a camera, that is) inside airports/airplanes?
I love the way BC looks and feels, as far as free players go (for blogs I guess, not professional news organizations) I still love blip.tv, if only for the absence of branding and their show player that allows access to all of your content.
Do you do any work with PodTech or is that aspect of video distribution completely separate?
Freaking awesome video Richard. Definitely a short film festival entry. See you soon in Portland.
Colin.
RKH,
The travel video is really cool. I second Lucian’s question. Was all that shot with your little SONY camera?
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tnxs all. yeah, it was all shot on my canon digital elph sd500. funny thing was i got a wild hair to turn the camera on, put it in video mode and place it in the security bin as it passed through the x-ray machine. i got lucky where it stopped. the tsa dude never figured out it was on!
daniel, we just serve them the video, they do the rest.
Whose speechless and has two thumbs? This guy, hi, nice to meet you.
Ok, seriously, I thought Dai’s personal diary was cool, but this is just amazing. And to think, I thought I was gonna one up him with my trip to Miami.
I’m still on the fence about BC, I see lots of papers using it– the NYTs has gone nuts with it — but I’m not sure how it’s going to carry over on a news site. Personally I still like Blip.tv for the bug free presentation and for their user agreement which specifically lets u retain your copyright and even request your material be removed at anytime.
So a quick question about music, over at the Sentinel Ryan and I have had quite a few convos about using licensed music. I’ve noticed that Dai has started making his own to avoid the issue, but here you’re using someone else’s music as the main track (Plus lots of other papers are using copyrighted music). Do you see any problems with this? And come to think of it, does the Merc have any policy on this?
we don’t use any copyrighted music at all, that’s our policy. we buy all our music from royalty outlets if we use music.
I agree! We recently got Brightcove too, and I love it.
I’ve been working with the API to create customized players embedded in Flash applications. It’s pretty tricky! I’ve hit a wall with troubleshooting for my most recently thing so I am awaiting responses on the two Brightcove help forums. If anyone is more familiar with it, please help me out here!
Hello everybody!! Does anyone know how to build a player (not those available in brightcove.com) using a custom skin? I’d be really pleased if someone has any clue.
What I’m trying to do is something like this:
http://www.flashinflash.com/console.html
Thanks! Alex.
http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/flvplayerpro/
why not start with the above link, it can have any skin you want, cheap, easy to maintain and update, we use it and love it!