RA Brown [mailto:rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net] replied: > John Meyer wrote: > > I had a thought. Would it be helpful to create an > installation video for > > OpenOffice and post up a link on the front page of OpenOffice.org? > > > > > > John, > > Sound like a good idea to me. I am just not sure which "team" would > handle it.
Whoever does it, DON'T make it a YouTube link. There's nothing wrong with posting it on YouTube, of course. More exposure is better for something like that. But for the actual link from the .... ahem.... dignified and professional OpenOffice.org main page, you want your video to be hosted by a stable, unobtrusive, hosting service. The differences are (among others): 1) A dedicated hosting service lets you choose the single frame from your video (or another still image) that becomes the clickable link-pic. YouTube lifts a frame out of your video using its own estimation of what will catch people's attention. 2) A dedicated hosting service allows you to decide what the user's experience will be, entering and leaving the video. What options will appear, whether there'll be an overlay or watermark (and in which corner it will appear), and so on... YouTube can run banner ads over part of your video window while it plays, and then afterward, YouTube's primary purpose is to entice the viewer to keep looking at other YouTube offerings. You would prefer them to return-to / remain-at your website. 3) A dedicated video-hosting service lets you control the quality and the number of alternative formats of your video that the viewer can select. You can offer a downloadable version along with streaming versions of different aspect ratios, different resolutions, etc. It's fairly cheap, too. Or the organization could toss up their own video server. And as I said at the beginning, post the video to YouTube, too, for the exposure, complete with links back to the OOo site. But don't make the YouTube one be the one you get when you click from the OOo site. Cheers, - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
