Tuesday, November 4, 2008

AECT 2008 - Flash Video Workshop continues

Taeyeol Park, Georgetown University, is the presenter. In the second half, we embedded videos, which turned them into individual frames to which Flash animation could be added. Very flexible, but limited to 16,000 frames and we are warned that sound will go out of sync. We also imported progressive download videos with cue points which could be scripted. Event cue points are set at time of import, but Action Script cue points can be added later from the Component Inspector. Publish Settings includes many options. Include HTML and it will generate page with code to embed the video.

Adobe Captivate (PC only) can be used as an easy Flash video authoring tool. Taeyeol says he is always looking for easier ways to do it, because Flash itself gets to be a little complex for many faculty at some point. I can believe that. It looks like something I could use, but it would be hard to train some faculty in its use.

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