You can publish your video clips to the web as FLASH Video with closed captioning. FLASH Video has been widely popular ever since the advent of the YouTube video sharing website. The problem with YouTube however, is that the video segments don’t include closed captions. Captions provide an aid to people with hearing disabili­ties. They are also particularly useful when the viewer is watching your video while situated in a noisy environment.

Samples of captioned FLASH video are available at the CSULB Chemistry TestTube site and at the CSULB Education Department video lessons site .

This web page provides a list of tools required to publish your own video to the web. All but one of the required software applications are available at no charge, either as an element included with your computer’s operating system (e.g. Windows Movie Maker, WordPad, FTP application) or as a free download off the web (MAGpie2). However, the most essential application required for publishing FLASH video to the web is not free. That is the Adobe CS3 FLASH Professional, which includes the Adobe CS3 FLASH Video Encoder.

Besides a list of required tools, this website provides detailed step by step instruc­tions on how to start with a video file on your local computer and eventually publish it out to a common web server. The CSULB web server is available to all CSULB stu­ dents, faculty members and staff.

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