After a short time you have a Silverlight file. I just made my first Silverlight video. How cool is that?
Microsoft Expression puts all of the files I need in the same folder so I can post this to a website immediately!
Expression and Windows Live Movie Maker
As an option, you can encode the screen capture output file without making any changes and then use it in Windows Live Movie Maker if I wanted to add easy effects or titles.
Mental Note: If you want a finished video more than 10 minutes just combine them after in Movie Maker!
Just drag the Encoded file to Movie Maker!
Add in some additional video clips, titles and sound and you are ready to create a movie!
Conclusion
This application is amazing and you should get it. Point none. I just barely covered the basics of just simple video and Expression can do so much more than I can cover in this article. As long as you are cool with the 10 minute limit in this version you can do almost anything else. If you really like it you can buy the full version or even try the full version first for 60 days. Yes, this is NOT even the full version!
Get the Free Version, have fun and be creative.
Thank you again to Andrew Edney for telling me about Microsoft Expression.
Tim
Thanks Tim. I've been using this in a university setting to do live broadcasts for events in an auditorium. We have an Osprey SD capture card for video and a Data path VGA capture card to record the screen of presenters' computers. You can easily toggle between each source during the broadcast while archiving the entire presentation to a file. Saves time doing all the editing when you do this during the creation of the video. I actually push the live stream to Windows Media Services on Server 2008R2 to manage uni-cast connections the publishing points that WMS creates. Edit a Silverlight template to connect to the publishing point instead of a file and stick it on any web space. When we start the live stream, just connect to the URL of the Silverlight template and watch the live stream in a browser via Silverlight on Mac or PC. Windows Media Player will also connect directly to the publishing point on Server to watch live broadcast. I've tried the live stream to IIS but you have to start and stop the publishing point in IIS each time AND it takes a lot of processing power. With a Xeon W3503 I can only do 2 SD encodes without dropping frames. (1 steam per core is MS recommendation) It's a good program but some hardware drivers and incorrect access permissions can cause it to crash. V4 is much better than previous versions.
Dear Holt,
Your set-up sounds just like what I am working towards. Did you have to purchase the “Pro” version of Expressions? Will one purchase cover more than one machine? What is the model number of the VGA capture card?
Thanks for your response!
Sincerely,
Rick
It sounds like you use it the way it is supposed to be run. I enjoy the screen capture interface and the way it works with my existing system. I plan to get the full version next month so I will be able to access more of the features.
Yeah, MS went all crazy with the licensing of the CODECS (H.24) when they released version 4. MSDN gets the ISS live smooth streaming but not the CODECS. Anything that they have to license needs you to pay more for it. It's worth it though if you do a lot of encoding for HD and SD video capture. I could never live stream from home because Time Warner only give us a tiny upload connection of 384k on standard Road Runner in the Raleigh-Durham market. Pathetic really. I was thinking of doing a writeup for Expression before you all started branching out from WHS. I think the new articles will be good as long as we still get the lowdown on WHS.
WHS will always be first in my heart. I have three running in my home right now with another four I bought for my family. It is very important to me and now being a MVP makes it all the more special.
That being said…
Have you thought of still doing the write up but posting it on UWHS? You do so much more with Expression than I would ever do and I would be interested in reading it. Heck, your last two comments are 10% of an article already. Throw up some art and you have a great post.
It sounds Great.And Worthyful Content.And Very Informative.