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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Choosing source video. Don’t double compress videos – use uncompressed or lossless formats when compressing to FLV format. Supported source formats are: asf, avi, dv, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv. Encoding videos to FLV. To encode videos into FLV or MP4, the encoder software uses following codecs - H.264,

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

What are the different types of video formats? There are many different types of video formats you can use. Here are some of the most popular options: MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is the most common type of video file format. WMV (Windows Media Viewer) files offer good video quality and large file size like MOV.

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Featured Online Classes

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adding animation and Flash Video. Publishing as SWF and other formats  Instructor: Kevin Siegel.   Some of the lessons covered in this course: Best practices for eLearning. Recording Demos and Sims. Recording voice-overs and adding sound effects. Click here  to learn more or to sign up.

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9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

Format Factory. Format Factory lets you convert media from one format to another. I don’t use it as much as I used to now that Articulate’s Studio ‘09 provides a video encoder. However for those who need to convert media from one format to another, it’s a handy tool. SWF Player. Simple as that. FLV Player.

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

All we have to do is to convert all the media to.flv so it can be embedded in the SWF, then publish the SCORM package to the LMS.”. This is done by using ‘Flash Player’, a program available for free download from the Adobe website. It’s a widely used format in elearning, and other sectors. Here are the essentials.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

flv [Flash video format] is not supported in some servers by default and it needs to be configured. Make sure to include the all file types [ like *.swf, that you foresee to be in the final deliverable.

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Adobe shows off Captivate 4 and the Adobe eLearning Suite

Steve Howard

Flash Widgets One of my biggest issues with Captivate as a serious eLearning tool, up to now, has been the limited feature set and the difficulty in extending that feature set. Widgets are specially formatted Flash swf files that know how to communicate with the host Captivate project.

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