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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

A container is the file that contains your video, audio streams, and any closed caption files as well. MOV (QuickTime Movie) stores high-quality video, audio, and effects. FLV, F4V, and SWF are flash video formats designed for Flash Player, but they’re commonly used to stream video on YouTube. filename.mp4).

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Now videos can be part of all elearning content!

Adobe Captivate

Previously you would have needed a professional video editing tool to synch the Captivate movie and the talking head video. 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. Worried about published file size?

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Codecs encode or compress streams of data for storage, playback and video editing on a variety of platforms. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI FLV (Flash Video Format). There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. Learn more about codecs here.

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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. Better "Streaming" In general, the Flash video format is very good at playing as it streams down additional content. It's not clear how true this is.

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E-learning Development: Selecting the Right Audio, Video, and Image Format

CommLab India

Video (Ctrl+Alt+V) formats include SWF, FLV, F4V, AVI, MP4, MOV, and 3GP. FLV: (FLASH LIVE VIDEO) FLV was once the preferred format for video streaming in mobiles, but now with the rise of HTML 5, the MP4 video format is being preferred. Audio formats include AIFF, AU, M4A, MIDI, MP3, WAVE, WMA, ASF, and FLV.

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