Consider that I have 3 video clips that I wish to play, back to back in one slide.
From an efficiency standpoint, is it better to edit the three clips into one video and play that in the slide, or is it just as good to enter the three clips individually on the timeline?
I understand that both work, but is one preferable over the other based on execution, file size, etc?
Hey Russ one video is probably better, or just back to back them, if I did back to back I would use the player timeline rather than the video controls.
As a single video you could get the transitions better in something like after effects.
My concern about the back-to-back approach involves the player itself. From an internal standpoint, I'm not sure if the playback suffers from playing a series of small video files vs. one larger video file.
I'd assume there must be some tradeoff about load times versus file size. My guess, like yours, is that one video file is >probably< better, but I hope I can get a definitive answer on which is the better practice, from someone who understands the internals a lot better than I do.
Will also depend on where the slide is in the course. As a light course with only videos in the middle will preload nicely. A light course with it a the beginning will stutter. And then gets worse the heavier the course gets.
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Guess I'll submit a support ticket for this one.
Hey Russ one video is probably better, or just back to back them, if I did back to back I would use the player timeline rather than the video controls.
As a single video you could get the transitions better in something like after effects.
Hey there, Phil. Great to hear from you.
My concern about the back-to-back approach involves the player itself. From an internal standpoint, I'm not sure if the playback suffers from playing a series of small video files vs. one larger video file.
I'd assume there must be some tradeoff about load times versus file size. My guess, like yours, is that one video file is >probably< better, but I hope I can get a definitive answer on which is the better practice, from someone who understands the internals a lot better than I do.
Will also depend on where the slide is in the course. As a light course with only videos in the middle will preload nicely. A light course with it a the beginning will stutter. And then gets worse the heavier the course gets.
Got it. Thanks.