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| Web & New Media Services |
| IRT Information |
The Web and New Media Services Group offers a number of options for getting video onto your Web site. While we do not directly offer videotaping services, we can help connect you to a number of resources. And we can advise you on how to format your video file for optimal viewing online.
Capturing and editing a video
Posting video to your site
Capturing and editing a video
Video Production Guide and Templates
This guide covers a range of consent, branding and post-production issues you'll want to keep in mind as you make your video. A number of templates and other resources are available to ensure appropriate branding. More »
Course lectures
The EdTech Group within IRT provides a range of audio-visual support for course lectures and supportive events in the M.D./Ph.D./Master's/Post-Doc curricula. For more information on these services, please visit the EdTech site.
Non-course lectures and events
Groups interested in taping a non-course lecture or event will need to arrange for their own capture and production services. We can provide information on outside vendors who offer reliable service and competive rates. Or you may wish to contact one of the on-campus service providers:
- Stanford University Events and Labor Services - basic video capture and editing services sufficient for taping a lecture
- Stanford Video - offers a full range of advanced production and editing services
SoM Video Format
IRT supports Flash (.flv) as the format of choice for posting video to your Web site. For more information on using Flash, please see the following guides:
Posting video to your site
The Web and New Media Services Group supports two methods for delivering video on your Web site: progressive and streaming. To broaden the distribution of your video, you may also want to post your video as a podcast on Stanford on Itunes.
Progressive Video
Streaming Video
Progressive Video
The Web and New Media Services Group offers progressive video as a free service to the school community. Individuals and groups may post an unlimited number of videos using this delivery method.
What is Progressive Video?
Progressive video is served from the school’s web server just like a normal web page. Once a user clicks Play, the file begins to download to the user’s computer and is stored in a temporary directory as it is being watched.
Issues to consider when deciding to use progressive download:
- Progressive download is generally not a good idea for videos that are more than ten minutes in length.
- Even with short videos, users with low bandwidth connection may experience ‘choppy’ viewing
- There is a delay of a few seconds while progressive video buffers when a user starts viewing. The user will need to wait until the entire video is downloaded before being able to navigate to points of interest throughout the video
- Because the video file is transferred to the user's computer, it can be captured, copied, and stored by users
Self-Serve Tools for Installing a Progressive Video
All video in the school's web environment should be in the Flash (.flv) format. (See Encoding/Converting to Flash for help converting your video.) In order to view any Flash video on a Web page, you must have a player object through which to play and control the video. There are two players available to you:
1. If you already have your Flash video file, then it's pretty easy to install it on a Web page using Dreamweaver. In this case, the actual player is provided by Dreamweaver. See How To Install Video With Dreamweaver
2. IRT also offers a special player that can be used by any SoM Web site to provide a formatted presentation featuring an initial title card, and the ability to provide description text and links to multiple progressive videos. See How to Set up the IRT Video Player
Player Examples: Demo 1 (multiple chapters) I Demo 2 (single file w/ text) I Demo 3 (single file)
Streaming Video
The Web and New Media Services Groups has the ability to provide streaming video to groups at the School of Medicine. There may be a fee for this service. Please contact Web Help for cost details.
What is Streaming Video?
Streaming Video is delivered to your Web page as a continuous stream while the user is watching it. This is accomplished with the use of multiple streaming servers that are geographically dispersed in order to ensure enough bandwidth for all users to receive a good stream.
"Streaming" is strongly recommended for videos that run longer than ten minutes, are heavily trafficked or need to have consistent performance regardless of the viewer's location.
Additional issues to consider when deciding to stream your videos:
- Streamed video is not stored on the user's machine and can't be copied or sent to other people
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Video starts the instant viewers click Play
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Viewing experience is smooth and continuous; it is not affected by the bandwidth of the viewer's Internet connection
- Traffic analysis is available such as total hits and duration of view
