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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Apart from these video encoders/ converters, other video editing software from Adobe and Apple also enable to export to FLV format of the video being edited. The embedded videos are played back from within SWF, so you can create your own components to control the video playback. Video delivery options. Playing back videos.

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Flash to HTML5 – Swiffy From Google

Upside Learning

This has come just in time for mLearning implementers; there is a new tool out in Google Labs called Swiffy that let’s one convert flash animation (swf files) to a device independent HTML5. We’ve been experiementing with Swiffy for a few hours now and it seems to do quite a decent job of converting SWF files.

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15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads

Upside Learning

One of the best tools, if you are already using Articulate, to convert your existing (Articulate based) courses to run on iPads, other tablets and mobile devices. Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5. This is a free eBook authoring application by Apple for iPad. And the icing on the cake? It’s free! Articulate Storyline.

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mLearning: The Time is Now

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

In what may be another boon for mLearning, last week Google released a beta tool called Swiffy , a free Flash to HTML5 converter. My first thought about Swiffy was that it would solve a LOT of the problems I hear with SWF content not playing on Apple devices like the iPad. Fingers crossed!

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Publish to iPhone – From Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite 2

Adobe Captivate

Apple’s recent announcement that it has lifted restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines has direct implications for the publishing options available from Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2. Steps: 1. Get an iPhone developer certificate from Apple. You obtain provisioning profile files from Apple.

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The 4 S’s of mobile design

E-Learning Provocateur

Heeding the advice of start small and fail quick , I have dipped my toe into the m-learning space by converting an existing online course into a smartphone-friendly format. Given the iPhone can’t play swf files, I have to make sure I either don’t use them or I use an alternative format – potentially HTML5.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

It can digitize and compress an audio or video signal for transmission and convert an incoming signal to audio or video for reception. YouTube supports WMV , and Apple users can view these videos, but they must download Windows Media Player for Apple. You may have heard the phrase video codec when referring to video files.

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