Creating Your Own Playable FLV Web Videos for Member Sites

As explained in the previous post, while the popular video sharing sites like YouTube are excellent for public videos, if you want to host your video behind a password or pay wall, then you need to be able to create and host the flash video yourself. Here is how!

First step is to create your video. On a Mac the easiest option is to use iMovie. Export the movie using Quicktime and make sure it plays well in your video player.

iMovie

The far friendliest option would then to be able to produce FLV directly from Quicktime or Quicktime pro, but alas I haven’t found an option to do that immediately. Thankfully, as mentioned in the previous post, there is some easy to use and relatively inexpensive software available called DV Kitchen.

DV Kitchen

If you provide some FTP details it will even upload the files for you.

Now just having an FLV is no good. Even though it is a flash movie, it does not mean you can simply embed that right into your page. You need some more software to build into the page to create the fully featured player in your browser, and some embed code to bring it all together. DV Kitchen will even do this for you!

If you don’t want to go the DV kitchen route, or if you have to have all the files load from your own domains/network/hosting, then the defacto standard in FLV video playing is JW player

Simply follow the simple wizard

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Video Tutorials

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