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== Editing and adding Flash videos ==
While Google and YouTube offers an easy conversion process from any type of original video file format to streaming Flash video (FLV) format by simply uploading a video on either 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 prevent such this irrelevant content from being displayed at the end of your video, upload an already converted video directly on MadaCamp instead. But 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 FLV format to begin with. Your original video source 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 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 video file on MadaCamp and add it onto a page, as follows:
<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv]]</nowiki>
Alternatively, [http://ffmpeg.org FFmpeg] is an n excellent and free video editing tool, but which requires command line editing, which is usually only done on Linux and OSX systems.
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 lack various advanced video editing features that exists in Avidemux, its it offers a simple conversion if process when all you need to do is to convert a any type of video file format into FLV format.
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