Ever wondered how people embed those nifty Camtasia flash videos into a sales page or landing page?
Check out this link for the official writeup from Techsmith:
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/5/sharing/embed-expressshow.asp
But wait, there’s more!
One little piece of important information they failed to mention is how to reduce the playback size so you can actually fit your video into a smaller area.
For example a 640×480 video is going to look a little bit big for a sales page but reducing it down to 480×360 will make it fit better.
Of course you might want to test the different sizes but I prefer the smaller video playback area when sticking on a page with other information.
To do that simply look for the line of code that says
var so = new SWFObject( “excelspoolfile.swf”, “csSWF”, “640″, “498″, “9.0.28″, “#1a1a1a”);
The 640 and 498 are the respective resolution sizes and you can adjust those accordingly. 480×360 is a good small size and makes it look like a video found on YouTube.