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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. Playing back videos.

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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. It gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. In order to compress a video, your file must also have a corresponding codec. Flash is not supported by iOS devices.

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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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Green Screen on a Shoestring: Part III, Production

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The talent should be positioned as far away from the background as possible, while still providing the desired frame for the video. This reduces shadows and greatly improves the quality of the end product. Step 3: Establish and test the video recorder's settings for optimal performance.

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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. This codec produces an MP4 , which typically delivers the best quality, with smallest file size. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI AVI (Audio Video Interleave – Microsoft).WMV

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M is for Media

Clive on Learning

Leslie demonstrated how easy it was to narrate a PowerPoint presentation, export it as an MP4 video and play it back on a video iPod. The quality looked great, even when there was a fair amount of text on the screen, so I had to have a go. I thought about Captivate, but that only exports Flash movies (SWFs).

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