Is there a WP theme, plugin, or script that can create a page with a video background like these?

10 years ago

Someone might come along with something to get you by, but ultimately you're going to be very limited relying on push button systems like WordPress. There is always going be that cutting edge trade-off for simplicity.

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King Manu

10 years ago

uuhmm... video? what are you talking about. you just make an animated gif to use on your background! You can convert videos to animated gifs and just set it as background. Easy stuff
+ find leading page template for wordpress = done
google : website animated gif background

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DubDubDubDot

10 years ago

Originally Posted by King Manu

uuhmm... video? what are you talking about. you just make an animated gif to use on your background! You can convert videos to animated gifs and just set it as background. Easy stuff
+ find leading page template for wordpress = done
google : website animated gif background

Bandwidth may be an issue for gifs of that size. You can stretch gifs of smaller dimensions, but there will be a serious loss of image quality.

Here's a quick primer on the topic:
demosthenes.info

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magentawave

10 years ago

Okay thanks, but did you actually look at these two pages before replying?
http://productlaunchformula.com/
https://www.michaelfranti.com/

Originally Posted by King Manu

uuhmm... video? what are you talking about. you just make an animated gif to use on your background! You can convert videos to animated gifs and just set it as background. Easy stuff
+ find leading page template for wordpress = done
google : website animated gif background

Thanks
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King Manu

10 years ago

Originally Posted by magentawave

Okay thanks, but did you actually look at these two pages before replying?
http://productlaunchformula.com/
https://www.michaelfranti.com/

Ofc i did. in fact i studied the productlaunchformula case and i found the images (google search) .
look :

Code:

http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-1.jpg
http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-4.jpg
http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-3.jpg
http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-5.jpg

So i would really appreciate if you don't speak out of experience, because i am not. Just because you pay money to a website it doesn't mean it's a different technique. It's just images

I don't say it's impossible to set an actual video on background, it doesn't make sense. It's like writing with left hand when you are a righty. It's nonsense. You are not going to have audio on it because you can't have start play button, so why bother to make it the hardest website to load when you want to have the appealing of a fast loading clean looking lead page?
That's why even LeadPages use images to create the illusion of videos.
In fact videos are just a succession of images with high speed combined with audio , like for example a movie with 24 fps means 24 Frames Per Second, meaning 24 images per second ( and that is a low quality movie) . That result in very huge size compared to images. You don't want that ! You want maybe a 5 or lower Fps converted .
Now everything is clear enough?
Don't believe me? Go ahead and make a video in background and see how your search rank and bounce rate will be with that enormous load time .

Originally Posted by DubDubDubDot

Bandwidth may be an issue for gifs of that size. You can stretch gifs of smaller dimensions, but there will be a serious loss of image quality.

Here's a quick primer on the topic:
demosthenes.info

Videos have much more size because they have a lot of FPS, with a gif converter you can delete them and keep only 3 FPS or whatever and even if the gif is 800x600 will be less size than any short video

PS: i wouldn't use an actual video format on my background even if a website would pay me to do that

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magentawave

10 years ago

Thanks but I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page (figuratively speaking) before proceeding...

Since they are images on Jeff Walkers page and not video, how do you get the images to change? Does that require a special script? Do you know where I can get something that will do that?

Originally Posted by King Manu

Ofc i did. in fact i studied the productlaunchformula case and i found the images (google search) .
look :

Code:

http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-1.jpg
http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-4.jpg
http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-3.jpg
http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3keys-5.jpg

So i would really appreciate if you don't speak out of experience, because i am not. Just because you pay money to a website it doesn't mean it's a different technique. It's just images

I don't say it's impossible to set an actual video on background, it doesn't make sense. It's like writing with left hand when you are a righty. It's nonsense. You are not going to have audio on it because you can't have start play button, so why bother to make it the hardest website to load when you want to have the appealing of a fast loading clean looking lead page?
That's why even LeadPages use images to create the illusion of videos.
In fact videos are just a succession of images with high speed combined with audio , like for example a movie with 24 fps means 24 Frames Per Second, meaning 24 images per second ( and that is a low quality movie) . That result in very huge size compared to images. You don't want that ! You want maybe a 5 or lower Fps converted .
Now everything is clear enough?
Don't believe me? Go ahead and make a video in background and see how your search rank and bounce rate will be with that enormous load time .

Videos have much more size because they have a lot of FPS, with a gif converter you can delete them and keep only 3 FPS or whatever and even if the gif is 800x600 will be less size than any short video

PS: i wouldn't use an actual video format on my background even if a website would pay me to do that

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King Manu

10 years ago

Originally Posted by magentawave

Thanks but I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page (figuratively speaking) before proceeding...

Since they are images on Jeff Walkers page and not video, how do you get the images to change? Does that require a special script? Do you know where I can get something that will do that?

Never used something like that but let me take a little time to search

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( this took me like a couple of minutes so you owe me a beer ! )
It's a jquery script : Simple jQuery Background Image Rotator - Blog Post - Diplo
You can set up as many images as you want and set up the time between rotations. Ofc you can hire somebody good at this to make one that even have an effect when switching from image to image, but why to complicate it right?
Keep it simple, not too many images and not too big, so that people will like what they see but also how fast they see it.

I mean look at the code to call how simple it is:

Code:

$("body").bgrotate({ delay: 4000, imagedir: "/images/backgrounds/", images: ["249.jpg", "335.jpg", "419.gif", "87.jpg", "96830.png"] });

Hope it helps, cheers

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zoro

10 years ago

I have this one: Video Effects Press WP Theme

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magentawave 10 years ago

This looks interesting. Thank you. I will check it out more in the morning. Can you use it to load single images like Jeff Walker has on this page? http://productlaunchformula.com/

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I have this one: Video Effects Press WP Theme
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ishalovie

10 years ago

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magentawave 10 years ago

Uh, what does this have to do with creating a page with a video background? Is this spam?

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this is here.

Simple mp3 downloader
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juggared

10 years ago

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GeneralLedger 10 years ago

Am I missing something? The background on both of those sites are video, not images/GIFs.

https://plf4.s3.amazonaws.com/squeezepage_001.mp4

https://www.michaelfranti.com/sites/...video-v15.webm

Video files will be much smaller than GIFs and is your best route IMO.

edit: Found this theme. It might do what you are looking for. http://jollythemes.com/wordpress/jollyany/
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topnichewebsites

10 years ago

If you are just looking for a squeeze page you can do it with epic squeeze.

Mike

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nataliarocon

10 years ago

BIGVIDEO.JS
THE JQUERY PLUGIN FOR BIG BACKGROUND VIDEO (AND IMAGES)

dfcb.github.io/BigVideo.js

his plugin makes it easy to add fit-to-fill background video to websites. It can play silent ambient background video (or series of videos). Or use it as a player to show video playlist. BigVideo.js can also show big background images, which is nice to have for showing big background images for devices that don’t have autoplay for ambient video.