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== Editing and adding Flash videos ==
While YouTube offers an easy conversion process from any original video file format into a website compatible Flash video (FLV) format by simply uploading your video into onto a YouTube account, YouTube will automatically display links to other user's YouTube hosted videos at the end of your video stream, often in combination with Google syndicated click advertising. To prevent this often type of mostly irrelevant content information from being displayed at the end of your video presentation, you can upload the video directly on MadaCamp and add it on page on this site. First But first it is necessary to convert the video into FLV format.
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If your video has been is shot with a digital camera, it is likely an Mpeg, AVI, Quicktime or some other format to begin with. The conversion into FLV format can be done using an advanced video converter and editor such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux Avidemux], which is available for free 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 file an '''.flv ''' extension and ''Save Video''. Thereafter upload the FLV file on MadaCamp this site and simply add it onto a page, as follows:
<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv]]</nowiki>
Alternatively, [http://ffmpeg.org FFmpeg] is an excellent and free video editing tool, but requires command line editing, which is mainly done on Linux and OSX systems.
For Windows users, an easy-to-use a nice and simple FLV conversion tool is the [http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm Mobile Media Converter]. While Mobile Media Converter lack advanced video editing features that otherwise exists in Avidemux, if all you need is to simply convert a video file into FLV format without fancy editing, Mobile Media Converter offers is the easy and a quick and easy conversion perfectly good solution in converting a video into various sizes and pre-configured size and bandwidth quality levelslevel options.
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