Office Live Lights, Cameras, Action! It's Video in Office Live "I'm Creating" Video adds a unique element to your Office Live web site but should be used sparingly as it's bandwidth requirements are high. | |
Office Live Video Tips |
You can upload your video to the Documents of your Member Center in Office Live and display it or embed it from a service like YouTube or Soapbox. Currently Soapbox is in beta and it tends to be down for work which then makes your video not visible. I prefer the look of Soapbox video controls and the quality. |
If you upload your video to your Office Live site there is a 10 MB (Basics version 1.5) limit on videos in the Documents area of Office Live. To be exact the Office Live team says, "If you plan to upload large documents, check the sizes to make sure the sum of any one upload does not exceed 10 MB. Additionally, uploads that take 15 minutes or longer will time out." |
If you have additional web space elsewhere you can upload it there and call it from that location. |
Keep your video size small (both proportions and file size) to avoid storage and bandwidth issues. |
It's best not to put video on your home page due to delay and bandwidth issues. |
| Video Editing Software -Windows and Mac (if it's not indicated it runs in Windows) |
| Free | My Use | Not Free | My Use |
iMovie (Mac) | *** | Pinnacle Studio 10 | *** |
Windows Movie Maker | * | Adobe Premiere | ** |
| * | Easy Media Creator | * |
| * | Ulead VideoStudio | * |
| * | Final Cut Express (MAC) | * |
| Rating of Use (this is not a rating of quality) | |
| I've used it. | * |
| I've used it and go back to it. | ** |
| I use it often and rely on it. | *** |
I use Adobe Flash Professional 8 to convert my videos into flv files and then include them in Flash files (swf).
| Example 1- HTML - Embed a Video from a Video site Source (YouTube, Soapbox, etc.) |
Dreams © 2007 arTotems Co. | arTotems Video | Music and Video by altArtifact |
Words - Carl Jung Music & Images © 2007 arTotems Co. |
| If the video is not available it will not show in
the example. This means something is going on
with YouTube |
see Dreams Here |  |
Placing your video on a site like YouTube gives you the advantage of not having to upload it to your site and therefore you avoid the use of your precious site storage. For the sake of ease let's use YouTube for our example. Method: 1. If you haven't already, make an account on YouTube and follow their instructions to upload a video.
2. After uploading your video go to the page where it is located and click "Edit Your Video" under "Video Owner Option".
3. At the bottom of the page you'll find an area entitled "Embed HTML". Select the code and copy it.
4. Return to the Office Live page (in Web Designer) in which you wish to include the video and place your cursor where it should be located.
5. Click "Module" and then "HTML. (see below)
6. In the HTML dialog box paste the code from YouTube and click "OK" (you can chage the dimensions to suit your page needs. The video above is set to "225" by "150")
7. Fiddle, Fiddle with those HTML boundry box handles until you are satisfied with the placement. (This is probably the hardest part of the whole operation.)
8. Enjoy!