In today's OZ/NZ Educators Flashmeeting, I described yesterday's 'labour of love' of producing my post on Using Puppets for Primary MFL with Lisa Stevens and in particular working out how to produce the video into a format I could upload on to my blog. As you'll hear it was quite a task, but perseverance bore fruit!
Here is a summary:
Plan A
- Use Real Player 11 to download the clip as a flv file, upload it on to Blip.tv and paste the embed code back on to my blog
Outcome
- The clip cut itself into five minute sections which I had to download individually
Plan B
- Find a way of stitching the 3 flv files together to make one clip and converting it to wmv
Outcome
- Rich FLV didn't produce the same results from this tutorial and Movavi, Xilisoft FLV Converter, Super and Zamzar didn't recognise the file format.
Plan C
- Use Camtasia 3 to screen capture the 3 clips using the FLV player from Keepvid and edit them together
Outcome
- Success!
Plan D
- Export the camproj files as swf or wmv files
Outcome
- swf file = 150MB and wmv file = 28MB
Plan E
- Upload wmv file on to Blip.tv
Outcome
- Clip too small with black lines either side in player
Plan F
- Upload wmv file to TeacherTube and use embed code to publish it
Conclusion
- If the clip is less than 5 minutes, use Real Player 11 and Blip.tv
- For joining multiple clips together, use Camtasia 3, export as wmv and embed on your blog.
Easy!
Here is the audio version too:
Try http://www.youconvertit.com they have many varieties of formats...
You can convert many file types and they allow big size
Posted by: James | 12/05/2008 at 17:55
Bet you wish you'd never asked now!!
Hope you think it was worth all the hassle
Lisa xx
Posted by: Lisa | 17/05/2008 at 20:47