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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. Don’t double compress videos – use uncompressed or lossless formats when compressing to FLV format. Encoding videos to FLV. Streaming – accessing videos hosted on the streaming server.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

This post is based on our experience with development of Flash based eLearning players over the years. Adobe’s Flash Professional is widely used for eLearning development but some organizations don’t allow running Flash Player or any other 3 rd party plug-ins for that matter in their web browsers. No support for AS 3.0

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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. Flash files are very consistent in their playback.

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Video Delivery Types in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Captivate supports the following types of Video Delivery : Progressive download, RTMP Streaming, Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS). Can be hosted on any Web Server or Flash Media Server (FMS). Can be hosted on any Web Server or Flash Media Server (FMS). Progressive Download. RTMP Streaming.

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Now videos can be part of all elearning content!

Adobe Captivate

Captivate also bundles the Adobe Media Encoder, allowing you to import video in any popular format, and the same is converted into FLV and placed on your slides. Captivate 5 gives you the option to either embed the video in the project, or to stream it from an external Flash streaming server of your choice.

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CMS: An Alternative to a LMS for those who seek Portals or Communities

eLearning 24-7

When I say “web&# , this means the course sits on your server or if you are using a 3rd party and they are hosting a server for you – it is located there. The course sits in the “server&# will all its files, etc. video, Flash (.flv), flv), HTML5, docs, pdf, etc. E-Learning 24/7.

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Adobe Captivate: Adding Videos to eLearning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      You can add several types of video into a Captivate project, including AVI, MOV, and Flash Video (FLV or F4V). If you have a web server, you can upload the videos to the server in advance and simply copy/paste the URL to the video into the URL field.