sending...Camtasia Studio and Amazon S3
Jason Clemens | February 28, 2010
Creating a great video tutorial is often the easy part. The difficult part is deciding where to host it. There are many options of course. If you have a web host you can host them there for your website, but are you limited or charged by bandwidth? Will your videos be high demand for viewing? Well I know we hope so and we don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for this either. You can go the free route with YouTube or some of the other sites like this, but will that meet your needs? Techsmith of course has ScreenCast, which you can get a free or paid account with them. Another alternative is using Amazon S3.
Amazon S3 
is a low cost hosting solution that I use. It enables me to host large video files, among other things, and is very simple to use. The cost is very low because you are charged pennies vs. dollars for your storage and bandwidth. To use Amazon S3 you will need a program that can access it. A free addon for the FireFox browser called S3Fox Organizer is easy to use like an FTP client. There are other good ones like Bucket Explorer by Chambal, which costs $49.99. Another great product is GoodSync, a software solution that will help you access your Amazon S3 account as well as synchronize files on your network and more. Pro version is $29.95.
To use Amazon S3, just upload your Video files. Videos created with Camtasia Studio have multiple files that go with it. All of these must be uploaded to the same directory or as Amazon S3 calls them “Buckets”. Once the files are uploaded you need to change the Authorization Level (ACL) to at minimum read for everyone. This will allow everyone the ability to watch your video. Then get the url to the html file that was uploaded. This is the url you will give out to your viewers. The method for getting the url is different for each program.
It is that simple.
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