On November 21, 2007 a contest for the best video related to any Expression Studio contest was announced by this site. If you have any questions about that contest or wish to submit your entry, please do so in this thread.

Video Contest - Full Version of Expression Studio

For those of you who have not bought Expression Web yet and would like a chance to get a free copy or have Expression Web but not the full Expression Studio there is a new contest that was announced today at by-expression.com where you can win a fully licensed copy of the current Expression Studio suite. All you have to do is submit a video, whether it is a tutorial, of something kewl you are doing with Expression, or just using it the best video submitted by January 15, 2008 will win a fully licensed copy of the studio.

If you don't have a program for creating your video entry you are in luck because Techsmith is offering a free copy of Camtasia 3 (available for download at http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiastudio/enu/312/camtasiaf.exe ) while this is not the latest version it is fully licensed and not a trial (get your license key at http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/pcpls.asp ) or you can use the 30 day trial of the current version or any other screen video capture you choose to create your video.

If you have questions on the contest or wish to post a link to your entry use the by-expression forum thread at http://forum.by-expression.com/forums/1070/ShowThread.aspx#1070

Good luck if you choose to enter, if you don't drop by and vote for your favorite that was submitted.

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Hi Cheryl,

I had to laugh at the irony of it.

A web authoring program, which has no intrinsic video inclusion capabilities, as a prize for a video submission contest.

Pull up your old copy of Frontpage and count the number of mouse clicks it takes to build one page with one video.

Then do the same with EW.

If you are not a "coder" I do not believe you can get it done with EW.

Like Wayne said a year ago. "This program is not for the individual user."

And like Bill told me 32 years ago. "Standards stifle creativity but make for better profits."

Thanks for the chuckle.

Go look at your website statistics and see how many visitors you have that are using Internet Explorer to visit your site.

If you use Camtasia you will get the basic page with all the code necessary to run your video on a web page. when you process your movie You simply open that page in Expression and drop on your DWT or connect to a master page - tada done.

Now contrast that with FrontPage where your IE visitors will have to "click to activate" using that "insert video" method you are talking about.

If I'm using Flash I always output from my fla the full swf and html page to go with it. For movies I'm starting to use Silverlight and the encoder creates the html page with the code to run it. Same with Camtasia, QuickTime and other tools I use to create video..

Would you care to point me to where "Wayne" (I assume you mean Wayne Smith at Microsoft) said Expression Web isn't intended for the individual user? If he said that, I disagree completely. I am the only one in my company who does web design. (everyone else works on desktop/server apps) and I use it extensively. It will not be the only program you should or will use but that is not the same thing. Dreamweaver isn't either. That's why they are part of a suite or studio of programs.

Besides, if you go to http://sessions.visitmix.com choose MIX 07, under the Designer track DS03 you will see that those capabiilties will be in the next version. Heck, you can watch the keynote and see Wayne Smith use a work in progress early version of Expression Web 2 to insert video.

Cheryl,

Help me out here.

These 5 mouse clicks result in a video (any codec) being played and publishable.

Not one click more and no keystrokes whatsoever.

Frontpage>Insert>Video>Filename>Size it>PreviewIE7

There's not even a video button in EW. Let alone a mention of video in the Help file.

Do the same with EW for me, would ya please, and let me know what the number is. Apples and Apples now. Not the Suite. Just the Authoring tool.

Just the number please, no spin.

The same argument can be made for Photo Galleries.

EW... much more complex, more software, more steps, more standard, more capable, more transportable, more connective, and more people. An entirely new level for an entirely different audience.  Not necessarily bad, but a fact non the less.

This first incarnation of the EW Silverlight encoder is not very impressive either.

The conversation with Wayne was private, and the one with Bill was over a beer.

Looking forward to your research results.

 

 

If I get a chance lid make a jing or other video-1 stab with html out pub from my video editor. Saved or imported into my Expression web folder. Drag over a DWT add any other text.

 

Alternatively, as I said I use swfobject.

 1 Obtain files from http://blog.deconcept.com/2007/02/28/swfobject-1-5-released/

2 Open html page to add

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
 <div id="flashcontent">
  This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
   var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "400", "200", "8", "#336699");
   so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

3. Replace

• swf - The file path and name to your swf file.
• id - The ID of your object or embed tag. The embed tag will also have this value set as it's name attribute for files that take advantage of swliveconnect.
• width - The width of your Flash movie.
• height - The height of your Flash movie.
• version - The required player version for your Flash content. This can be a string in the format of 'majorVersion.minorVersion.revision'. An example would be: "6.0.65". Or you can just require the major version, such as "6".
• background-color - This is the hex value of the background color of your Flash movie.

I keep the above in text file for easy reference as well as copy/paste to my pages.

Okay, I've created a short video (just over 4 minutes) using Camtasia to show you how I add Flash to my pages. Now in the video I used Adobe Flash CS3 to create the swf file (sort of hard to use Camtasia to record using Camtasia <g>) bu the process is the same regardless of whether you are using Camtasia, Flash, Swish or any other pogram to create your swf file. Looks like I'll have to add the flash file to the original post to get it to show up in this thread but I'm off to do that right now.