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Rick

Firstly let me apologise if I get too technical, it is unfortunately unavoidable, but I assure you that I am not one of those geeks that so delight in the detailed explanation that leaves you more confused. I am more a technically born again mature gentleman.

How are you recording the teleconferences and how do they get to a CD? Are they recorded on a tape or direct to a computer?? Somewhere in that conversion it would be possible to make another conversion to MP3 that can be used for downloading from your website. The way the sale mechanism is done I will leave to the web site designers. Now, a word about MP3, there are different quality levels depending on the compression settings used in the conversion. It also affects the size of the file. To get the best balance you really need someone who knows what they are doing.

Video on internet, once you have a video it needs to be converted to a format suitable for internet delivery, rather like the MP3 discussion above it needs to be a small file but not too small to be poor quality. Again you really need someone who knows how it works. There are 4 basic options for file types and within those is a myriad of options for compression and quality settings. A web site designer will probably not be able to help you here, you need a specialist in internet video etc..

To get the video in the first place is not that difficult, if you follow some basic guidelines. Ideally though you will need someone to shoot the video who has some sort of understanding of fundamental videoing techniques. Such as, don't try to video a speaker with a window behind on a bright day.

This is one of my areas of expertise and if you have a look at my website (my apologys to all the website designers here, it IS being vastly improved but it has been taking a long time to get there) you will see that as well as copy and restoration of media I also do "production" which covers a vast area of this sort of work. If you would like to contact me direct I am happy to talk though the options. Likewise, if any of you web designers are struggling with media delivery like this I am happy to talk about the options.

I am sorry if this seems like a dig at you Rick, it isn't meant to be, but this is one of those areas when it pays to use a knowledgeable person to get a decent result as effectively and efficiently as possible.