After investigating the possibility of getting Flash elearning modules onto ipod, I discovered that it really isnt that simple - not impossible - but a bit fiddly. This is Bomski's (our boy wonder) explanation: "most of the conversion tools that turn flash into video.... need a linear timeline (no stopframes)most of our content is held in a containing movieclip in a single frame" I asked him for a simple explanation and it seems that Flash is like a videotape and the animations are made up of single frames; if our content was spread over many different frames, we could export it to video easily, as it stands, all our animations are held in one frame, so we would have to hack it and spread it across many frames, in order to get it into an acceptable state for conversion.
Maybe this idea should be shelved for a later date, as the beauty of our modules is that they are very interactive and this feature would be lost even if I did manage to convert them to mp4 format. Perhaps we could offer the same courses, but done in a different format using perhaps some of the animations from the flash modules but embedding them into powerpoint before converting to video. The possibility is there for later if anyone wants to trial it anyway.
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