Video

Displaying video both as downloadable files and as viewable in-page movies is supported in the CMS. The generic process for uploading files described earlier will work for video files just as well as any others. By using the [file..] tag you can make the video downloadable by clicking as with other files. Additionally files in our two supported formats (quicktime and flash) can be embedded directly into the page for viewing using the [video 123] tag.

As with the file tag the unique id of the file is included along with (in this case) the word video. As with the [image] tag the modifiers right, left, center, caption and defaultcaption are available with the video tag. For example:

[video 1234 right defaultcaption]

For video embedded for viewing directly into pages using the [video] tag we strong recommend using the flash video format; particularly the vp6 encoding available in Flash 8 and above. Video can be encoded into this format using either the full Flash authoring tool or the inexpensive encoder from on2. This particular format is widely supported by users of our site (it should work automatically for over 95% of our current visitors) and offers high quality. If a larger version (appropriate for viewing offline, e.g. in a class) is needed we recommend providing a quicktime version encoded with the h.264 encoder (available in Quicktime 7 and above) as it offers high quality and is straight-forward to view after being downloaded.