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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

A container is the file that contains your video, audio streams, and any closed caption files as well. MOV (QuickTime Movie) stores high-quality video, audio, and effects. MOV files use Appleā€™s proprietary compression algorithm. These are smaller files that will load quickly and stream easily. filename.mp4).

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How Apple Killed Flash for eLearning (and What to do with All That Non-Compatible Courseware)

eLearningMind

In 2010, Steve Jobs singlehandedly started one of the biggestā€“OK, maybe the onlyā€“software feuds by stating that Apple products wouldnā€™t support Flash, citing reasons like a high fail rate, lag time, and the overall unnecessary nature of the platform. Consider this: In 2011, 28.5 percent of websites used Flash for multimedia applications.

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15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads

Upside Learning

It uses PowerPoint to develop rich mobile content and also has plug-in to add surveys, quizzes, assessments, and rich media such as streaming video, ePubs, and Adobe PDFs. This is a free eBook authoring application by Apple for iPad. iBooks Author. Impatica for PowerPoint Version 5. Build once and deliver everywhere.

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5 Reasons Why the ā€˜Netflix of Learningā€™ May Be a Bad Idea

Instilled

The physical media format wars of yesterday seem like a quaint footnote to a world where streaming media currently reigns supreme. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO NOW and countless others do their macabre dance on the burial mound of discs, tapes and video rental stores we used to use.

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John Maeda The Art of Leadership #LSCon

Learning Visions

This stream of learning is mastery. Technologyā€¦delivery text, images, music, moviesā€¦thereā€™s a pattern across CD ROMS to browsers to phonesā€¦weā€™re kind of stuck in this loop now. Think Apple products!) Conceptual Knowledge (The How): Iā€™m going to learn and make sense of this. Gather the skills and get the concepts.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Codecs encode or compress streams of data for storage, playback and video editing on a variety of platforms. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. Learn more about codecs here. You may have heard of the h.264

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Will the iPad continue its tablet domination? A look at the market landscape

Xyleme

Since Apple launched the iPad in April 2010, the first in the new generation of media tablets to hit the market, it has sold more than 30 million units. March – Apple releases the iPad 2. This leaves us with just two players for the future: Apple with the iPad and Google with Android. July – HP releases the TouchPad.

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