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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Video file size can be tricky and the concept of reducing video file size has many technical variables associated with it. You may want to reduce file size to more easily send to your co-workers, or complete your upload to YouTube quicker. AVI (Audio Video Interleave – Microsoft).WMV

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

A codec is simply the software that compresses your video so it can be stored and played back. It can digitize and compress an audio or video signal for transmission and convert an incoming signal to audio or video for reception. It gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss.

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Video Format Comparison - Flash Video Format - WMV Format - Quicktime - Real

Tony Karrer

I was recently asked what video format to use and particularly about the differences between the Flash Video Format (FLV) and Windows Media - WMV Format. In The Rise of Flash Video - Tom Green tells us: This is not to say QuickTime and Windows Media are dead technologies.

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Tips and Tricks for Making Your Content More Inclusive

Hurix Digital

Captions Videos should have captions to provide a text-based representation of the audio content. Captions should be synchronized with the audio and accurately represent the spoken words, sound effects, and music in the video. Transcripts Videos should have transcripts to provide a written version of the audio content.

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Using Video in eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Typical steps to get video into an online course: Script the video on paper. Record (sound and audio). A big challenge when using video is to keep a high-level of quality but not have the files size too big. There are various techniques that help when compressing and deploying video. Compress/Render.

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Notes from DevLearn and the Adobe Learning Summit

Steve Howard

Apparently some people find video hard to present in SharePoint. I use flash video all the time in SharePoint. AVI etc also easy, but usually much bigger file size. • Combinations of text/audio/images all better. Audio plus supportive text (i.e. Text plus matching audio – redundancy principle.