Creating a flash presentation

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Step 1 - Produce or hunt for source clips
The clips can come from three main souces: a) instant-demo, b) youtube, and c) animoto.

Step 2a - Capture in Screencast
To record in SWF by instant-demo, then use FLV_to_AVI to Converter to avi.
Make sure the playback control is disabled.

Step 2b - Extract out the streaming (movie) source
i) To extract the youTube (or like) FLV, then use movica to split flv into pieces. Each clip should run for at least 8-10 seconds.
ii) use FLV_Extract to remove sound,


FLV Extract extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved to AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F are supported) and the audio is saved to MP3.

Step 2c - Create and Extract Animoto clips

The best practice:
a) to collect 30 450x550 resolution images (from e.g. fotosearch) for one particular topic,
b) to upload these images to animoto in sequence and in batch,
c) difference song/tempo will affect the animoto's choice of effect,
d) next step is identical to Step 2b.

Step 3 - Presentation = video clips + images + audio
Jumpcut (or similar tools) to stich the clips with the narration,
then, publish and embed the presentation.

SOP Summary
1 realplayer to extract the flv out
2 movica to cut into smaller clips
3. FLV_Extract to stripe voice (this also converts the clip to .avi)
4. jumpcut to author the whole presentation

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