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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. 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, Video delivery options.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

Audio/Video Support – HTML5 has added new video and audio tags that can play video/audio in a browser without a plugin but it doesn’t officially support any video or audio format. A few browsers like Firefox support Ogg Theora (an open source format) while others like Safari support H.264

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

It gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. The higher the bit rate, the less compression, which results in higher quality overall. What are the different types of video formats? There are many different types of video formats you can use. AVI offers the highest quality but also the largest file sizes.

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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. Market Penetration The Flash player is installed on a higher percentage of end user computers than any other video format.

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5 Best Practices of creating an eLearning Video

Wizcabin

There are excellent tools out there that will help you reduce your videos as much as possible without compromising the quality. By uploading a low size video with good quality, your learners can even get to download the video for later watch offline. Not all video formats work with mobile devices.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Video Format and File Type. **If There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. This codec produces an MP4 , which typically delivers the best quality, with smallest file size. FLV (Flash Video Format). Takeaway: Use the MP4 file type to keep quality and reduce file size.

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Green Screen on a Shoestring: Part III, Production

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

This reduces shadows and greatly improves the quality of the end product. FLV) and select the option to encode the alpha layer. Once this process is complete, you have a video in.FLV format where the background has been removed, leaving just the talent. Step 5: Encode the processed video by selecting File > Export > Media.