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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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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

Last week, while justifying Apple’s refusal to allow Flash player on iPhone/iPad, Steve Jobs wrote– “ New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too) ”. More specifically- Is it ready to compete with Flash for eLearning Development? In fact I believe it may not replace Flash at all.

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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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Enhancing Interactions with Media Elements

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

A set of flash cards where the learner gets to pop up a text that explains a mnemonic to memorize what's on the cards. How cool will it be if the designer could add a button to the interaction itself, linking to the article or the video? Diehard fans of Raptivity loved the Raptivity Media Toolbox that was showcased in a recent webinar.

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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. No support for AS 3.0

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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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ADOBE CAPTIVATE: Free Matching Images and Videos

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

During the video portion of the class, we import a Flash Video (flv) which students love because without the background color in the video, it's possible to include an animated guide throughout a lesson. I quickly discovered, much to my delight, that Flash Video (flv) is one of the available download formats.