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Working with Externally Hosted Videos
Hello!
I have a presentation that contains a handful of videos. For a variety of reasons, I cannot include the videos in the scorm folder that is uploaded to my LMS. So I have urls to the video files (http://www.xyz.com/file.wmv).
Can't I embedd these so they appear on the slide or must they open in window media player?
Can I only embed if they are flv then do I link to a url with .flv and include a flash skin in the scorm folder?
Sorry I mostly work in Flash and appreciate any and all help!!!
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Hi Al and welcome to E-learning Heroes!
You have a few options for working with video files.
You can insert .mp4, .flv and .swf files into your slides. You do this from the Articulate tab > Flash Movie
http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adding-a-movie-to-a-slide.aspx
If you want to pull external videos into your course, you could use Web Objects that pull in either an iframe or html page with the video.
Which would you prefer to do? Include the videos in the actual slide or pull the video from another location into the slide? Each option looks the same to the learner, but videos pulled in from Web Objects won't sync with your course player.
Do videos pulled in with an iFrame increase file size? Where should those video files live in?
Im not concerned with the video synching. So to get it to appear as if it's embedded on the slide the web object needs to be looking for .html? So maybe a flash movie inserted to an html is the way to go...
Right, you can insert a flash movie into an html file and point your web object to that html file.
Here's some good info on Web Objects:
http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/web-content.aspx
You can insert content into web objects locally or externally. Sounds like the external option is what you're looking for.
Hi, Dimitris.
When you use Insert > Video from Website, the video will remain in its current location (for example, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), so any file increase should be minimal.
I hope this helps!
One added benefit is you can update the video with out needed to chance your course so long as the target url is the same.
I use this all the time to link to the sites like the CDC that may frequently update it's content. Linking to sites that update content while preserving urls lets me have fresh content without needed to constantly update my course.
