Viddler is a video sharing site I use so Viddler is when I am doing commercial content. I love to use video streaming services, YouTube, Vimeo and Viddler before I use Amazon S3. All those sites, their core competencies are online web video. So they understand how to encode and get the very best streaming of your video and making sure it gets brought to the end user in the very best format. That is the reason why I tend toward these sites before I move to Amazon S3.
So we use Viddler for the commercial content of our web video production Melbourne tasks. It is a little bit more expensive. They do have $100 a month minimum, that’s where they suggest you start and they give you a certain package for how much you can download and upload. If you chat with them they can reduce that for you. You can get away with, I think we pay $50 a month. The good thing when I pay $50, the other thing about Viddler, is you can really de brand it. It doesn’t have to have any reference to Viddler. It’s a great way to embed video on your site that looks very professional and streams very well.
Then you’ve got Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is merely a file serving in the Cloud online server. So it’s an online server where you can upload say your best viral marketing video. If you’re going to do that, the time and the place when we use that is when we do not really want to share the content.
When they are on a lot of these other sharing sites, you can limit them somewhat . If you’re putting them on a video sharing web site, it’s much easier for somebody to come across it.
We might use Amazon S3 in our membership style software. So the Online Trading Mastermind where we don’t need those videos shared around, because folks are paying $100 a month or something similar to that, we put it behind firmly shut doors. Things that are on Amazon S3, that is when you need to know a little bit more about encoding or use one of the services available to be sure that it’s encoded out at the right quality.
People can select, do I want to get it in iPhone version, do I want to get it in medium or high def version. That’s when we use Amazon S3 to offer those different options in there. The SEO Method is a good example of the way that we use Amazon S3, so my particular course is done through Amazon S3 and it will have a high quality video embedded on the download page. If you have spare time, read our SEO Method 2.0 review.
Underneath that, we’ve got a lower quality version which we encode using some software using VisualHub. Then you can download that and we also have an audio version. So we are doing it a touch more by hand we’re re encoding but there are some in the Cloud solutions.
