Video Object

[pollybuddy1]

I'm not really "new" to AMS, but I've never done really "complicated" stuff with it, just easy, basic stuff. This is STILL easy basic stuff, but I'm having problems.

I created a project that starts with a video that I edited in Sony Vegas Pro, rendered as AVI, and loaded in the project on page 1 as a video object. It's a large file , 665 mb, that is basically all the tours our company offers. Then, I also created other videos of each individual tour (which are basically just clips from the large video). I loaded them all on their own pages, and you get to them by clicking a link on the Tour Description page for that tour.

Everything works just FINE on my laptop and desktop after publishing, but when playing on some other computers, mostly the ones where the employees took the DVD (had to burn to DVD, too large for CD), videos don't work properly: music skips or stutters, some don't play at all, including the main one.

I was thinking maybe the main video is too large, or maybe there are too many videos in the project and it's overloading the computers (but I doubt that since I know you pros make much more complex projects).

So my first question is 1) What is the best way/format/size to render the video in the first place to avoid this.

My next question is 2) I thought of instead of loading all the other smaller videos, that I would just have the links to the specific tours videos go to the original large video, and start playing at a specific time. And I read about how to do that, but it doesn't work and I think I'm missing something simple. I had the link go to that video and seek at like 17 seconds. But since the video is on a different page, I'm stumped.

Any help would be appreciated.

[rexxarspain]

What format is video? DivX or similar need powerfull computer to play (PIII 500MHZ, in this time all people have one better :lol) and uncompressed need too transfer rate.

[rexxarspain]

Srry, for double post (+15 mins)

2) u can make something like this:

when u press the link:

seek = 20 -- link time
video = "c:\\video.avi"
Page.Jump("Page1"); --Video Page


and in "On Show" of video page (Page1 in example)

if seek ~= nil and video ~= nil then
Video.Load("Video1", video, true, false);
Video.Seek("Video1", SEEK_BEGINNING, 0);
Video.Seek("Video1", SEEK_FORWARD, seek);
video = nil
seek = nil
end

[longedge]

[QUOTE=pollybuddy1;134585]What is the best way/format/size to render the video in the first place to avoid this.[QUOTE]

I have to cater for a range of computers some with and some without various codecs installed so I stick to mpeg1 or wmv and sometimes flv. I usually render at 352x288 as quality isn't my first consideration :).

I keep file sizes down below about 80MB by breaking long videos up into chapters which can be loaded dynamically and finally I always start with a very short video which loads quickly.