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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. However, often we find videos not being used optimally. Here are a few technical aspects to keep in mind when working with videos. Choosing source video. Encoding videos to FLV.

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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. This Wikipedia article provides more details about HTML5 video support. in Flash Based eLearning Development?

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

While there are a plethora of video file types, which consist of codecs and containers, choosing the right one doesn’t have to be complicated — but it certainly can be. You may have heard the phrase video codec when referring to video files. In order to compress a video, your file must also have a corresponding codec.

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Workaround for video streaming issues in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Problem: Videos do not get streamed in Adobe Captivate projects. Reason: The URIs of the videos are specified incorrectly. Solution: The format of the URI depends on how the FLV or F4V file is nested within the ‘App’ folder on the server. The first two sections in this article explain the URI formats when the [.].

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Video file size can be tricky and the concept of reducing video file size has many technical variables associated with it. Video Format and File Type. **If There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI

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Video Delivery Types in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

One of the most important factors to think about while using Videos in learning courses is how the video will be delivered to the learner. Captivate supports the following types of Video Delivery : Progressive download, RTMP Streaming, Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS). RTMP Streaming.

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Now videos can be part of all elearning content!

Adobe Captivate

One of my favorite features this time is the new Video import and synch capability in Captivate. Now you can add video content to your elearning just as easily as you were adding audio previously. This would be especially useful for talking head videos, that are describing or anchoring the content on the slide.

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