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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Don’t double compress videos – use uncompressed or lossless formats when compressing to FLV format. Analyze if these videos are high motion (lots of zooms, fades and people moving around) or low motion (general talking heads). Encoding videos to FLV. Video delivery options. 264, On2 VP6 , and Sorenson Spark.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

An eLearning player is a building block for more conventional [one with back and next for navigation buttons] eLearning courses. What’s an eLearning player? This post is based on our experience with development of Flash based eLearning players over the years.

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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. Why has this happened?

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

WMV (Windows Media Viewer) files offer good video quality and large file size like MOV. This format file was developed by Microsoft for the Windows Media Player. YouTube supports WMV , and Apple users can view these videos, but they must download Windows Media Player for Apple. Flash is not supported by iOS devices.

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9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

For rapid elearning converting to the SWF and FLV Flash formats are important and Format Factory supports this. I mainly use it to convert FLV to other media for easy editing since I can’t find an easy FLV editor. On a side note, if you are looking for an FLV editor, you might try the RichFLV editor. SWF Player.

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

Flash allows development of animated content that can be played using a browser. This is done by using ‘Flash Player’, a program available for free download from the Adobe website. Approximately 95% of the PCs in the world have flash player installed. It’s a widely used format in elearning, and other sectors.