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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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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

You may have heard the phrase video codec when referring to video files. 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.

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Creating a Simple Video in Windows Movie Maker

The Learning Dispatch

There are plenty of ways to create a video using a free solution. Windows Movie Maker comes prepackaged with Windows operating systems and is more than capable of producing a decent video. If your file has not been saved in one of these formats, you may need to convert it to a supported format.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Video Format and File Type. **If There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. To help you not worry too much about file size, we’ve created Camtasia and Snagit video outputs to default to the MP4 file type, and will recommend MP4 in the majority of cases for online sharing.

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Five Tips for Creating Graphics for Mobile Devices

Upside Learning

At Upside Learning we’ve been creating various learning applications for mobile devices including apps for iPhone, Blackberry, & Android; browser based courses; short movies/animations etc. You can also create animations in Flash and convert that to video formats that the smart phones support. No related posts.

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Voice-over videos for eLearning: A step-by-step guide

TalentLMS

Voice-over is an extremely versatile type of video and can be used on anything from movie trailers to college lectures to, of course, corporate training. Using video for learning is very popular nowadays. This is arguably the most difficult voice-over video format to produce — but if done correctly, it’s also the most immersive.

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Secrets of Video Demo Timeline (cpvc project)

Adobe Captivate

Timeline in a CPVC or Video Demo Project. CPVC-files are created with the Video Demo application packed with Captivate. Those projects are pure video files, they can only be published to a video format (MP4 – H264 codec). Another difference is that the bottom track can have several video clips.

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