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== Editing and adding Flash videos ==
While YouTube offers an easy conversion process from any original video file format into website compatible Flash video (FLV) format by simply uploading your video onto a YouTube account, YouTube will display links to other user's YouTube hosted videos at the end of your video, often in combination with Google syndicated advertising. To prevent this type of mostly irrelevant information from being displayed at the end of with your video, you can upload the video directly on MadaCamp. But first it is necessary to convert the video into FLV format.
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If your video is shot with a digital camera, it is likely an Mpeg, AVI, Quicktime or some other format. 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 onto this site and simply add it onto on 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 usersuser's, a nice and simple FLV conversion tool is the [http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm Mobile Media Converter]. While Mobile Media Converter lack various advanced video editing features that otherwise exists in Avidemux, if all you need is to simply convert a video into FLV format without fancy editing, Mobile Media Converter is the easy and a perfectly good solution in converting tool to convert a video into FLV format. Mobile Media Converter offers various pre-configured size and bandwidth quality level options.
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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 with ''Mobile Media Converter'' and thereafter uploaded on MadaCamp and displayed here with the following code:<br>
<nowiki>[[File:Chocolaterie_Robert_320x240_low.flv|320x240px]]</nowiki>
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