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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

While the word “compression” can conjure images of pixelated video, the process is both necessary and efficient with modern digital cameras. The codec of your original video file is often determined by your camera or screen recorder, which you may or may not have control over in your camera settings. Compression is your friend!

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Content Authoring with Video Interactions

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Digital video has now become so commonplace that nearly everyone knows how to shoot video using a camera or a smart phone, upload it to Youtube and share it with others. Various types of video such as AVI, MPG and SWF are supported. Trainers have long known the importance of video in all types of training.

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Creating PDF Forms

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Go from your camera directly to PDF. Publish your SWF videos in a PDF directly from Adobe Captivate. Here are some other ways you can create a PDF (not covered in this article): Print to PDF from any application that prints by choosing Adobe PDF as your printer. Convert HTML pages to PDF. Merge files together into one PDF.

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Camtasia Studio vs Adobe Presenter: Working with PowerPoint Presentations

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

During the Camtasia Recording process, it's as if a video camera was pointed at your display. Once you're finished, you'll use the Presentation group on the Adobe Presenter group to Publish the Presentation as either a SWF or PDF. While you can also publish SWFs using Camtasia, you cannot produce a PDF.).

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9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

In either case, it’s easy to shoot video with a simple digital camera and edit it without a lot of expense. For rapid elearning converting to the SWF and FLV Flash formats are important and Format Factory supports this. SWF Player. SWF Player lets you view Flash SWF files. Format Factory. Simple as that.

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Over 75 Free Rapid E-Learning Resources

Rapid eLearning

Preview Flash content on your computer: SWF Player and FLV Player [ original post ]. Poladroid : quickly create images that look like they were taken with a Polaroid camera. Musicshake and TuneAround are free tools that let you easily create your own music and soundtracks. Video Resources. original post ]. Here’s a demo.

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Great FREE Software Downloads

The eLearning Coach

You can import photos from a digital camera, edit them, and make and share Picasa Web Albums online. CamStudio can record all the screen actions on your computer, as well as an audio narrative, and create AVI files which can converted to a streaming Flash (SWF) format. Picasa is the other popular image editor and its from Google.