As video is slowly becoming indispensable part of our e-learning courses there are more chances to overdo the things with video. There are some common myths related to usage of video in e-learning which we'll try to look at today.
Videos are expensive affair: Busted! Videos are no longer an expensive affair, simple camera and some basic video editing software with mac or windows is all it takes to make a simple hard-hitting video.
But Video will require great skills: Busted! We've been living with with videos for more than half a century almost now and the technology has so advanced that anyone can do it with proper learning. Learning and keeping an eye on the synch between audio and video to get desired effects is all it takes. These are learnable skills!
Macs are better than PC for video editing: Busted! Machine or operating system hardly matters you can make your video on your laptop using the operating system you have. No need to look around for anything else.
Flash/Quicktime is the best media streaming software: Busted! Flash is more universally available compared to Quicktime and is more wholistic for programming and interactivity. But then whichever codec you use is going to compress the video.
Frame rate, that's confusing: Not really! Well 24 frames per second (fps) works well with any sort of video we would like to put up. The films use this rate and its accpeted rate for films internationally without burdening the bandwidth much during streaming.
Finally, there will be more myths as we advance more with our videos and usage but as long as we do know the desired output no myth can stop us.
