My brain-dump on video conversion is in this post. Remember that this is never completely ‘binary’ and there is some tweaking depending on your use-case, but this should be a good place to start
Useful Players and encoders for video
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Any Video Converter
Excellent free application in my experience:
Note – I also use ‘Any DVD Converter Professional’ to rip DVDs for use in meetings, on my iPad etc.
Snosh (video conversion tool to Flash .swf or .flv (free trial available, full version around $50)
You can convert files from any format (pretty much) into an .flv (streaming flash video) and load that into a room or an Adobe Presenter presentation:
SUPER Video Conversion Application (free)
Share Flash® Video (Adobe Captivate demo, 1:47)
Share prerecorded video content with meeting attendees.
Share prerecorded video content with meeting attendees.
Some overall video conversion guidelines:
- Anything under 30 seconds you can use a .swf (‘Progressive Download Flash video’) and use it in a Share Pod, but this will not be synched on each participant Meeting as it will load based on the bandwidth speed on each connection, try to keep the file to under or around 1mb, the maximum file you could load is 100mb.
- You can convert to a .swf and drop it into an Adobe Presenter presentation, then load the published Adobe Presenter content into a meeting Share Pod, this will be synched and take advantage of the preloading slide-by-slide…the maximum file you can load in this way is 10mb I think.
- Adobe Presenter 7 will automatically convert a video to the right format using the ‘Import Video’ option and you can load that as above
- Over 30 seconds (actually, any video) you probably want to use an .flv (‘Streaming Flash video’) conversion. In this case the key is not file size, but bandwidth available…I would suggest 15 or 30 Frames Per Second, 250kbps to 400kbps max. The maximum file size in this case is again 100mb.
Swiff Player (free .swf player that is useful for checking the frame rate etc. of a .swf video using the ‘Properties’ option):
A pretty good free tool is the Riva FLV Video Encoder from the links below:
Riva Player
The free player is at the bottom of this page:
Adobe Media Player
The Adobe Media Player is an excellent free option also: