Video Conversionn with ffmpeg

While searching for how to convert a2v video into a mov, I found everything that one wanted to know about ffmpeg but was afraid to ask explained in a simple way in here: this forum answer.

In short, just do

ffmpeg -format

to list all formats. Then use this simple command to convert between video formats:

ffmpeg -i {input_video_file} -f {format} {ouput_video_file}

In my case, my command was:

ffmpeg -i Passadeiras\ Ativas.m2v -an -f mov teste.mov

since I was converting to a mov file and stripping the sound.

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Speaking Avatars

I've found SitePal, a speaking avatar solution.

The text-to-speech option itself is great for demos, videos and presentations.

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Never Steal a Hacker Machine

Here's what happens when you steal a hackers computer:


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Tutorial and Presentation Creation Software

I've just came across with the best - so far - solution between functionality, quality, export formats and price for tutorial and presentation creation software, including desktop video capture.

This great solution is Wink.
I've tested several solutions like this one before, all usually they all do the same:
capture the screen, compose the frames with some tags or highlight rectangles and export it to a Flash SWF video.
But Wink is different. It does not capture the screen as a simple bitmap, it also captures the objects, like the mouse pointer, and allows to freely specify the frames per second for screen capture and video export.
This allows a much more flexible frame composition, like positioning the mouse cursor on any part of the screen, change its pointer and export the video with comfortable frame per second ratio where the mouse cursor is automatically moved even if it has been positioned on a different location from where it was captured.

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