At the bottom of this page you will find a link to a sample video that I made in January 2003 using clips that were included in the Pinnacle Studio 8 package. The package also included a DV capture card and an excellent DV editing application, much easier to use and more foolproof than Premiere - I used Studio 8 and not Premiere to make the video below. Studio 8 costs about 120Euros. A more expensive version is available which has analogue video input/output as well as DV in/out. For info on Pinnacle products go to www.pinnaclesys.com.

Publishing video to web pages is always a compromise between quality (size, resolution and frame rate) on the one hand and compact file size on the other. I consider the image quality below to be the bare minimum and it corresponds to about 7K per second of video. It was compressed using the Windows Media Video (wmv) codec (compressor-decompressor). This movie is about 30 seconds long and about 210K in size. Its dimensions are 176 x 144 pixels. The movie has sound so use headphones if you are using a computers with no speaker).

Using Microsoft FrontPage to Include a video in a web page like this is easy, provided you choose a compatible video format (usually this means AVI format though ASF, RAM and RA formats are also OK). Just import the movie into the web (File>Import) then add it to your open page with Insert>Picture>Video.

You can also insert videos in Flash format by choosing Insert>Movie in Flash format.

It's also possible to make the move outside of the page, just by adding a link instead of inserting the video. Internet Explorer 6 will then ask the person following the link whether (s)he prefers to see the video play in the 'media bar' within the browser, or in the Windows Media Player itself. Click HERE to see the same WMV file play in the media bar or Windows Media Player.

I have also included a video in RealMedia format accessible via the link below. The quality is slightly higher than the previous one since it is a larger file (10K per second). Unlike the Windows Media Video file, the Real Media file cannot normally be incorporated directly into a web page since the Windows Media Player is normally incapable of playing files in this format. Realmedia movies can load as 'streaming media' (the movie starts to play before it has finished loading) but since my server is not a Real Server you will have to wait until the whole move has loaded before it will play.

Here's the RealMedia movie: hollywoodISDN.rm