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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. Embedded - Importing and placing videos on Flash timeline.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

The Open Screen Project was started to help create a singular experience on multiple devices (using Flash) be it Computers, Mobiles, TV or Game consoles. Obviously, using Flash platform tools offered by Adobe. The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Is there competition for Flash?

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Using Lectora to Sync Audio

Integrated Learnings

Most multimedia developers are familiar with audio timing in frame based applications like Adobe Flash and other movie editing software. Import Audio as an FLV File. The format of the audio file is important because only Flash Video (FLV) files can be used for syncing events to audio. by Jonathan Shoaf.

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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.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

A codec is simply the software that compresses your video so it can be stored and played back. FLV, F4V, and SWF are flash video formats designed for Flash Player, but they’re commonly used to stream video on YouTube. Flash is not supported by iOS devices. Codecs (for compression).

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

FLV (Flash Video Format). Sometimes audio can create larger file sizes, though most of the time recording devices and software will compress your audio so as not to create large file sizes. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI AVI (Audio Video Interleave – Microsoft).WMV And many more!

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9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

If there’s a beta program or new software application, I’m quick to sign up and play around with it. 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.

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