What programmes/format to use?

In the last month have done a lot of learning, experimenting, testing and talking to others about what programmes to use, what formats are most accessible.

Have learnt that gif animated files wont work with audio.
Have learnt that Captivate is much easier to work with than Camtasia.

After testing the Manukau domain images, discovered that couldn't open .swf files on the Manukau XP09 domain. Then discovered that swf format can't be opened on any Manukau managed domain independently from web browser. But for this project won't need that anyway.

Scott and Shaun recommend Flash format as everyone has it.

• platform independence
• more efficient for using compressed video and audio
• much more efficient than using animated gifs
• efficiency in terms of delivery of video, audio and captioning
• mature tools make it easy to create
• Utube used flash
• flash penetration is high, used globally

If want to put stream videos on mediacat, need to have videos in flv format - would probably need a conversion programme to convert.