Here is my solution to uploading the video that you will find at the bottom of this page. I first made this video using muvee. Muvee Reveal takes your photos, video and music and automatically creates your own highly polished personal muvee.

Actually we didn’t have a video, we only had pictures of a group who visited us in the remote mountains of Chiapas and performed some construction projects for the Tzotzil Indians near Chenahlo, Chiapas.

We chose to save my movie as an “avi” file in their best quality output. I then uploaded it to Youtube.

Here’s our YouTube video:

After seeing that we lost some of the quality using youtube. We then decided to convert it to a flash movie.

I asked Terry Dean, My personal coach how to convert avi to flash.

Here is his response:

“I have the full Dreamweaver CS3 development package that I use which
includes a Flash video converter that converts basically any video format
over into Flash.  That part is real easy to use while the rest of Dreamweaver
has a long learning curve (it is how I design sites).

I did a quick search for “avi to flash conversion” and found quite
a few potential software programs off the front page of Google.  I’m
not sure which one I could recommend as i have not used them.  Most
I’ll bet have a shareware version to try out.”

Since I use Microsoft Expression (I used to use frontpage) I decided to do a search for a tool to convert the file formats. I used Google as Terry recommended however I wanted to get some more advice. I went to this article at Lifehacker..com

Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters

What I found after searching Lifehackers 10 free progrmas was this download:

Any Video Converter (Freeware/Windows only)

Convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone with Any Video Converter, which also supports user-defined video file formats as the output. Batch process multiple files that AVC saves to a pre-selected directory folder, leaving the original files untouched. (LifeHacker entry)

Using the program was a super easy.

Now to upload my flash video to this blog. Since the video is 16,454 kb in Flash video format I decided that it would not be best to host it on my server.

Terry Dean reccomends AmazonS3 which is a little complicated. There is also a firefox extension called S3fox that lessons the pain of using the online file host.

However, I had problems using all of Amazons solution, probably because I lack the patience to try to learn new programs.

Terry likies the AmazonS3 alternative but I decided to go back and check Lifehacker again.  I found an article on the Gmail Drive.  GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. Download it here.

Here’s another online storage medium. Access your files from any computer, anywhere with Box.net. No software to install. Free Trial

Box.net is the most secure, easy to use solution for managing and sharing files online.

You can also connect your gmail account to box.net which makes this a great alternative for online stoarge.

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