Converting GotoWebinar recordings to Flash to embed
For work, I had to put a recorded GotoWebinar webinar on our website so people could see it anytime. Easy, right? No.
For one thing, GotoWebinar will only record the webinar on PC. At my all-Mac job, I had to drag in an old XP laptop. Once I brought it up I saw what I was missing in the Mac version - lots of features and a better interface. Oh, well. GotoWebinar Mac works fine.
The recording went off without a hitch. I had been warned to choose the WMV format rather than the native GTW format and I did so.
But then - what the hell! The video will play, but refuses to convert. Final Cut? Nope. Compressor? nah. FFMPEG? zilch. These files use some strange codec that doesn't play well with others. Lots of others have the same problem. Finally I found away that worked. My goal was to get it up on blip.tv, and then embed it on our site.
Here was my solution:
- Record in WMV format.
- Copy the file onto the mac.
- Download Flip4Mac WMV.
- Open it with Quicktime.
- In Quicktime, File-> Export for Web and select Desktop
- It will create a folder; open the folder and find the .m4v file
- Upload the m4v file to blip.tv
- It works, great quality, small file size, and audio too!
I bet you could also convert the m4v file to .flv using ffmpeg and then host it yourself using Flowplayer.
Flip4mac's free version will put a watermark on your video. If you can't live with that, buy a license for $29. I did. Well, my company did anyway.
Good luck!