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Monday, October 7, 2013 at 6:31 PM
Hello, I’m just starting a new website and I’m trying to figure out how to upload a small personal video without using You Tube. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks, Parl Guthrie
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Monday, October 7, 2013 at 7:56 PM - Response #1
Did you mean 1. upload a video to your classcreator website or 2. just not using YouTube to display it (meaning some other site)? If #1, what is the video file size?
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Monday, October 7, 2013 at 11:11 PM - Response #2
Hi Jack, thanks for responding. By the way, I’m a 1964 Bothell High School Graduate and I’m trying to help the administrator of the 50 year BHS Class of 1964 website in addition to my own. Thanks,
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 12:03 AM - Response #3
It's possible to make YouTube videos sort of hidden. It's called "not listed" which means it doesn't show up on a search. Only those with the URL can see it. So if you PW your site page that you embed the code on, only those people that have your site PW can see it (or those you send the link to). Here's a LINK that describes how this works. Your space on CC is only 100MB unless you pay more (see the pricing link on top of this page). Then you are left to put video player code on your site. All possible but a lot of work compared to using YouTube (and some other similar sites). If you give me an idea of what '64 needs there might be some things I can help with. This forum is useful for answering many CC questions. If someone has coding experience I'm a bit more useful
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 1:35 AM - Response #4
Actually, when I chose between the Premium Plan which offers 200 Megs and the Platinum Plan which offers 1 Gigabyte of space, I knew ahead of time that I wanted the 1 Gigabyte plan. My site has nothing to do with Classmates, and after communicating with the administrators it was acceptable to use it for other reasons.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 4:22 AM - Response #5
Typo on the 100 thing. 1GB works for a few small videos. If you want to use your storage to play the video, you need to put code for a player on your site. There are several free players and are all more or less the same. Read this LINK for how this works. You put (upload) the code in your file vault. Create a new folder to keep this separate from other data. If your site is not a class, there's a setup thing that changes some things for you. Maybe you already did this? Here's the CC announcement that describes how to do this Here's a CC site that does that SITE (actually done before CC mods, but gives an idea. The forum link has a user that is a sailing club. Maybe some others will jump in and show what they have done too.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM - Response #6
If there's anything I can either add or do to help let me know. I'm the root admin for the sailing club that Jack referred to.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 5:19 PM - Response #7
I appreciate everyone help, but I guess I’m not up on procedures enough to understand it. I was hoping that Class Creator had a step by step video of how it can be done, but I’m told that isn’t something that they care to make available.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 7:52 PM - Response #8
Picking a website provider is like picking a car or truck. What is the job it's supposed to do. A few providers sell you a site because of their video player, but not much beyond that. Generally, one has to always create the support files for a video player to play your own data. Like changing spark plugs. This is easy for those in the field and difficult for people that have never done that. That's why YouTube is so popular. It's easy to embed a video! There have been requests like yours to not use YouTube, but usually they did not realize that a video can be "hidden" from the general public as described earlier. CC is excellent for a member data base, selling items (to subscribers) tracking same and a lot of other semi-automated tasks like creating links, image galleries and arrangements easily. If you have a list of things you are looking for, maybe we can tell you which ones are easy and which ones can be done, but require more technical background (or time to learn). I have some commercial sites that would gain nothing from CC because they just sell stuff. No members, no reunions, no email list requirement. Some others again can help explain if that interests you.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 10:15 PM - Response #9
I was hoping that the website could be used in two different ways. I have already gone through the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office and created a personal trademark. I want to use the trademark on children’s clothing as well as adult sports clothing. Since I already paid for the site I will use it to the end in one way or another, but it would be nice to be able to do both. Maybe you can at least tell me if that is even possible?
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 11:41 PM - Response #10
#1 first part is vanilla stuff that is easy to do. If you wanted to play a video on the site from the File Vault, you'd have to install a player as referenced earlier. #2 videos for family can be done but in a slightly different way. You'd have the family members download the file instead of playing on web. 250MB wouldn't take too long. Most users get at least 500KB (bytes) per second making that about 8 minutes. Most probably 3 minutes. Anyone with a slow connection would also translate to a slow jerky video feed in real time. (Later you could put a player on the site eventually too using one of the various free players that you'd install in the File Vault.) Uploading data is done to an area called the "File Vault". It's set up by default into 2 folders: Image (that's where images are uploaded by CC if you use the standard tools) and File (that's where you load anything you want). They wouldn't need a password, you just send them the link in the email to download and view. They could save it too if they wanted to. In the File folder, what I suggest you do is create additional sub-folders to organize whatever it is you want to keep for whatever purpose. To see these, go into the CC editor (edit page) and click on the 2nd icon on the 2nd row from the right (this will be 3rd once you save something). Hover there for a bit and it will say Link. Click on that. A new dialog opens and now click the 2nd one that says File Vault. See the upper left text box on the file manager and it says File To see the Image folder, click the 2nd icon on the top row. Do the same drill and now you are in the Image folder. Neither one of these will contain anything if you have not uploaded anything. So in File, create a folder called "Test" (see lower left button), click on this folder to open it and then click on the Browse button on the lower left. This opens a dialog to get a file from your system to upload. Just pick anything so you can see what happens. It's simple to delete. I may have typed something wrong, but looks close enough to get the feel I think (there's more details but have nothing to do with the basic file management tasks). I assume you know that YouTube has 100% private videos that require a PW to access? There's no way anybody else can see those. There are also alternatives to YouTube that work the same way. For example Photobucket.com also restricted as much as you want. Plus you can store photos and all that. And it's free Just take it 1 step at a time and I think this will become simpler than it sounds.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 12:25 AM - Response #11
Thanks Jack, I really appreciate the information and I’m going to print it out and take it one step at time. I won’t use You Tube if for nothing else because it will raise eyebrows, and result in having to answer questions about why anyone would do that, especially if young grandkids might be involved.
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