African Video Library
www.africanvideolibrary.com

Everyone who goes on safari takes their video camera and some get incredibly lucky and witness highly unusual inter-action between animals or simply have amazing sightings.

African Video Library is a video sharing site that lets anyone store short videos for private or public viewing. The difference with other similar video sharing sites is that African Video Library is purely dedicated to safaris. It provides a venue for sharing videos among friends and family as well as a showcase for new and experienced videographers.

Videos are streamed to users on the African Video Library site at www.africanvideolibrary.com and/or via other Web sites. African Video Library provides specific code for playing each video that can be embedded on a Web page of a third-party site.

Circulation is growing very quickly. We are promoting the site strongly through leading search engines and through conventional media. Word of mouth is also very important and we are encouraging lodges all over Africa to ensure that their guests know about it too.

Uploading an amateur video is free and if it was taken whilst you were staying at any of the lodges listed, you can affiliate it to that lodge, otherwise, just choose “Other” when uploading your video.

If you are the owner of a lodge and would like to be listed so that videos uploaded are affiliated to your lodge, we charge an annual fee of £25 GB Pounds [see www.xe.net/currency for current exchange rates] to list your establishment. This also means that you will have access to the correct coding in order to embed and display it from your own site as if it was hosted by you, and thus have a video testimonial page of sighting at your lodge. To join, please complete the on-line contact form.

Although these “amateur” presentations will benefit each lodge, we also feel that it is also very important that a lodge displays its own “professional” video advert. If you would like to discuss the benefits of having a professional video promotion of your lodge and its facilities, please use the on-line contact form and we will get back to you, or contact:

Mark Caswell
Direct Telephone: +44 (0) 1526 352919
Email: mark@web-marketing.co.uk
Web: www.web-marketing.co.uk, www.africanvideolibrary.com, www.privategamereservesandlodges.com

Technical Information
Presenting “quality” video footage on the internet requires a balance between quality, speed and the type of media player on the viewers PC or Mac. Without wishing to bore you with unnecessary technical information, we use a Flash based service which involves optimising the 'frame rate', 'audio Frequency', 'global bitrate', 'frame rate dividers' and the 'type' of 'encoding' for each video footage which reduces the file size but also ensures viewable quality on the internet. The end result enables high quality video presentations to be streamed and displayed on a web site without the end user having to download any extra viewing software or to wait for content stream.

African Video Library supports AVI, MOV and MPEG video formats from most digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones and recommends DivX or XviD (MPEG-4) at 320x240 resolution for best results. African Video Library converts all uploaded videos to Flash video, and users must have the Flash player in their computers to play them.