Ken, I can speak a little to the conversion and software aspects of your question. Any Video Converter (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/) offers a free product that will convert virtually any video format to another format. They also have reasonably priced paid versions that would allow DVD conversion and more. The main thing is that once you captured it, you could tailor it to fit your needs. I hope this helps.
Thanks, Ed Ed Finn, M.S. Instructional Technology Specialist Ruth Lilly Law Library Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law IH 131A 530 West New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 (317)274-1922 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow Hi folks, Our library is planning to post some video guides in the next little while, and I'd like to make it as simple-for-me and accessible-for-everyone-else as possible. Does anyone have a good handy guide/idea/workflow/etc on current best practices for presenting html5-happy video that has reasonably good cross-platform usability? (I'm thinking it needs to work in at least: IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, iOS, Android.) Here are some of the things I'm thinking about: * Which formats do you typically include? * How do you generate videos in those formats? * How do you know what codecs are in those files? * What (free if possible?) software are you using to accomplish this? * What kind of workflow for file creation makes this process manageable. I've been looking at Mark Pilgrim's book HTML5 Up and Running (O'Reilley, 2010), and it makes the whole process seem pretty arduous. I'm hoping that that the last two years have brought some simplifying developments. Pilgrim recommends the following formats (in failover order): H.264 mp4 WebM Ogg Theora His system for generating all of these files includes scads of software and tedious processes. Anybody have an easier and/or more up-to-date approach? Thanks Ken
