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General

1. What can I do with Mixercast?
2. Is Mixercast free?
3. Is my email address available to other users of Mixercasts?
4. Can I change my Email Address?
5. How do I change my password?
6. Does my Mixercast account ever expire?

Viewing Mixercasts

1. How do I view Mixercasts?
2. What are tags?
3. What is Channel View?
4. Why do I need to register in order to rate/comment and reply to Mixercast?
5. How can I send a comment to the Author of a Mixercast?

Creating Mixercasts

1. What is the Mixercast Wizard? Why wouldn’t I go straight to this cool Designer?
2. What is the Mixercast Creator? What’s so cool about it?
3. What are Templates?
4. How can I add media? What types of media does the Mixercast accept?
5. Can I use media from my other Web 2.0 accounts?
6. Do you copy media from external sites?
7. Do you provide media that I can use?
8. How long does my media remain in my Mixercast account?
9. How do I delete media?
10. How do I edit a Mixercast already created?
11. Can other users also view my media that I upload?
12. What happens when I "Remix" a Mixercast?

Publishing your Mixercasts

1. What happens when I say yes to "Publish in Gallery"?
2. How do I drop my Mixercast in other sites?
3. Can I restrict only some users to view some Mixercasts? If so – how?

Miscellaneous

1. Is my privacy protected?

General

What can I do with Mixercast?
Mixercast is a free online service that allows users to create and share and track rich-media called Mixercasts. Creating a Mixercast is as easy as just dragging and dropping your media in the Mixercast Wizard or Designer, Sharing is as easy as sending an email or pasting HTML code into your favorite website or blog. In short, it’s a service that makes it really easy to create the best looking content on the web and grow a dedicated audience around it.

Is Mixercast free?
Yes. The service is free for all. It is free to create, free to view, free to distribute.

Is my email address available to other users of Mixercasts?
No. Your privacy is important to us. The only identifier that other users will see will be your Screen Name. Even when users reply to you they will not use your real email address, but an anonymous remail address that we create for you. This address is different per Mixercast.

Can I change my Email Address?
No. Your email address is your permanent identification in Mixercast. Currently, we do not have a facility for you to change the email address of your account.

How do I change my password?
To change your password:
1. Login to your Mixercast account.
2. Click on the My Account tab in My Mixercasts section
3. Click on the 'Edit Profile' link in the area that says 'Profile'
4. Type in the Old Password, New Password and Confirm Password.
5. Click the 'Update Profile' link at the bottom of the page.

Does my Mixercast account ever expire?
No. Currently, Mixercast accounts do not expire.

Viewing Mixercasts

How do I view Mixercasts?
Just select Gallery from the top of any page to see new and popular mixercast. You can also search by entering search keywords in the Search Tool on top of the page. We recommend that you get the latest version of Adobe Flash Player for the best viewing experience.

What are tags?
Tags are keywords associated with a Mixercast. In the Gallery, Tags appear in a section of the page called a Tag Cloud. The larger the tag appears in the Tag Cloud, the greater the number of Mixercasts that are tagged with the term. Tags help you find Mixercasts you might like to watch, and also helps you label the ones you have created so that other people can find them more easily.

What is Channel View?
You can browse Mixercasts in the Gallery, Search, or Tag Cloud with the normal list view, or by clicking on the "Channel View" icon. The Channel View turns your web browser into a content channel, automatically playing all the Mixercasts in that Gallery, Search term or Tag.

Why do I need to register in order to rate/comment and reply to Mixercast?
The Mixercast service is all about creating a community around rich media. We want you to identify yourself so that your replies and ratings become part of this community.

How can I send a comment to the Author of a Mixercast?
When viewing a Mixercast, registered users can either “Reply” by Email or by another Mixercast. To protect the privacy of the Author, we create an anonymous email for him, and all replies are redirected by us.

Creating Mixercasts

What is the Mixercast Wizard? Why wouldn’t I go straight to that cool Designer?
Mixercast Wizard provides an easy to use step by step method for creating simple mixercasts. It is designed to help users, new and experience, create powerful mixercast quickly. After you complete a pass with the step by step Wizard, you can further improve your mixercast using the Designer.

What is the Mixercast Designer? What’s so cool about it?
Mixercast Designer is a unique web-based tool that combines the power of Flash media programming, collaborative photo and video editing and webcam capture in one unified platform. Think of it as a free-form tool that can allow you to create anything from an advertisement, to a photo slideshow, to a collage, to a radio show, or a video channel. Its ease of use makes it possible for a novice to create superb rich media expressions within minutes. For expert users it provides a plethora of advanced tools to tweak their Mixercasts to perfection. Only your imagination limits what you can create.

What are Templates?
Templates are quick launch tools to help you create outstanding Mixercasts. Designed by our professional artists, they exhibit the power of Mixercast, while also making it quick and easy to complete by just dragging and dropping your media in.
Whether you are using the Wizard or the Designer, Templates will allow you to easily create mixercasts for your friends and family.

How can I add media? What types of media does the Mixercast accept?
You can add media from your local system by selecting on the Upload Files in either the Mixercast Wizard of the Mixercast Designer. A dialog box will allow you to select multiple media files after which they will be uploaded to your account. We currently allow the following:
Images: jpeg, gif, bmp, png, tif
Video: mov, flv, avi, mpeg1/4 with most common codecs
Audio: mp3

Can I use media from my other Web 2.0 accounts?
Yes. Mixercast uses smart linking mechanisms to link to media located in your accounts at other Web 2.0 sites. The supported sites are:
1. Flickr
Stay tuned, more are on their way.

Do you copy media from external sites?
No. All your media in external Web 2.0 accounts is simply available as a link. This means that you do not use up your Mixercast quota uploading media that you already have at other sites. The convenience of linking allows you to reuse your media from across the web.

Do you provide media that I can use?
Yes. We provide you legal, licensed media that you can access via "The Studio" section of either the Wizard or the Designer. We currently provide clip art as well as professional Sound Clips and Photographs from leading bands and brands. More to come!

How long does my media remain in my Mixercast account?
Your media remains as long as you want it to be, or until you run out of quota. We do not delete media from the site unless you explicitly remove them yourself.

How do I delete media?
Go to My Mixercasts > My Media Library page, select checkbox on any of your media and then select the Remove Files link.

How do I edit a Mixercast already created?
You can only edit your own Mixercasts. To do this, go to the My Mixercasts section and either click on "Edit". This will take you the Mixercast Designer where you can edit your creations.

Can other users also view my media that I upload?
No. The only time users get a chance to play around with your media is when they decide to “Remix” your Mixercast that you’ve made remixable. This gives you the content creator control of the usage of your media.

What happens when I "Remix" a Mixercast?
"Remix" allows you to build upon another user's Mixercast, creating a duplicate Mixercast for you to work on, while the original Mixercast remains untouched. This is an extremely powerful feature allowing the community to collaborate. However, the original author continues to maintain control over the content used in the remixed mixercast, and if they remove it from the site, it will disappear from your remix.

Publishing your Mixercasts

What happens when I say yes to "Publish in Gallery"?
The Mixercast will be available in the gallery for everyone to see. It will also show up if in Search or if a Tag that it has is selected.

How do I drop my Mixercast in other sites?
You can simply select the style of your Mixercast embed and the site you want to drop in, and we will provide you a small snippet of HTML code. All you have to do is to cut and paste that HTML code into wherever you want to display your Mixercast.
You can set the styling by choosing the “skin” of your Mixercast container.

Can I restrict only some users to view some Mixercasts? If so – how?
Mixercast site enables private communities to develop around the content. If you select "Private", we won't list your Mixercast anywhere on our site, neither will it be searchable.
If you make a Mixercast private, you will have to explicitly invite your friends to view the Mixercast using the "Tell a Friend" utility.

Miscellaneous

Is my privacy protected?
We never compromise user privacy. Your actual email would never be displayed to anyone anywhere in the site. We also do not share your email with any third party.
In addition, no one can use your media without you giving them express permission to remix.
We also allow you to withdraw (ie remove) your Mixercast or media at any point in time and have that be unavailable to all users in the community.