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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. Encoding videos to FLV. Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). Supported source formats are: asf, avi, dv, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

On the other hand, Flash supports FLV/FV4 formats and those are not browser dependent. Content developers who plan to use HTML5 for delivering video or audio content have to spend more time in encoding the videos to Ogg Theora and to H.264 To create animations with HTML5 developers have to code animations using JavaScript and CSS.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. It would help eLearning developers to focus on developing engaging and quality experience without concerning about technical difficulties. What’s Adobe’s contribution? So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content.

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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. MOV (QuickTime Movie) stores high-quality video, audio, and effects. WMV (Windows Media Viewer) files offer good video quality and large file size like MOV.

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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. Develop or convert videos to MP4. Not all video formats work with mobile devices.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

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. Codecs encode or compress streams of data for storage, playback and video editing on a variety of platforms. You may have heard of the h.264

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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. The talent should be positioned as far away from the background as possible, while still providing the desired frame for the video. Step 5: Encode the processed video by selecting File > Export > Media.