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== Editing and adding Flash videos ==
While Google and YouTube offers an easy conversion process from an any type of original video file format to streaming Flash (FLV (Flash video) format by simply uploading a video on either their portals, both Google and YouTube will automatically display links to other user's Google or YouTube hosted videos at the end of your video stream, often in combination with advertising. To avoid prevent such irrelevant content from being displayed at the end of your video, upload an already converted video directly on MadaCamp instead. In this caseBut in doing so, you will first need to convert your video into FLV format.
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If your video has been shot with a digital camera, it is most likely not in the necessary FLV format to begin with. Your original may be an Mpeg, AVI, Quicktime or some other standard format. The conversion to FLV can be done using an advanced video converter and editor, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux Avidemux]. Avidemux is a video editor available for free download and on all operating systems. Within Avidemux, open the video file, select FLV format via the ''Video'', ''Audio'' and ''Format'' selectors. Optionally add filters. Give the new video file an .flv extension and ''Save Video''. Thereafter upload the newly created FLV file and add it onto a page, as follows:
<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv|300x375px]]</nowiki>
Alternatively, [http://ffmpeg.org FFmpeg] is an n excellent and free video editing tool, but which requires command line editing. This , which is usually only done by on Linux and OSX Mac expertssystems.
For Windows users, an easy-to-use FLV creation tool is the [http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm Mobile Media Converter]. While Mobile Media Converter lacks various advanced video editing featuresthat exists in Avidemux, its simplicity makes the offers a simple conversion process easy for casual usersif all you need to do is to convert a video file into FLV format.
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This 13-minute video about [[Chocolaterie Robert]]'s bean-to-bar chocolate production in Madagascar (in French) was converted from a Quicktime (.mov) file into FLV format using ''Mobile Media Converter'', and thereafter uploaded on MadaCamp and displayed here by with the following markupcode:<br>
<nowiki>[[File:Chocolaterie_Robert_320x240_low.flv|320x240px]]</nowiki>
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