How to put a video or mp3 file onto your intervention page

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Adding Video Files

Videos should be in FLV format (Flash Video), be encoded at a constant bit-rate, and not contain any special characters in their filename (e.g. a space, comma or hyphen) to be compatible with LifeGuide.

Video is streamed directly from the server so keeping media file sizes low will result in better performance. If you experience problems displaying video in your intervention but can view it properly in a normal media player, it is possible that your video has been encoded using a variable bit-rate (which is incompatible with our Player). In these instances you will need to either re-encode your video from the original source (preferable for higher quality), or convert them using software or a website (See section below on Converting Videos into Flash).

There are 3 steps to inserting a video into LifeGuide:

(i) Check that the video is a Flash video. If it is not, convert it to flash; (ii) Add the video to your workspace; (iii) Add the video to the page.

(i) Check that the video is a Flash video

  • Check that your video is a Flash video file by looking at the file extension (the last 3 letters of the file name).
  • The file extension needs to say .flv to be a Flash file. If does not you will need to convert it (see below).

Converting Videos into Flash

There are plenty of options for converting video, but we recommend http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-flv as it produces consistant results. Please note that this website is external to LifeGuide and is not affiliated with, or supported by the LifeGuide Team.

(ii) Adding the video to your Workspace

First of all, you need to save the video that you want to use into the workspace folder in LifeGuide. Follow the instructions above for saving images into the workspace.

(iii) Adding a video to the page

Videos can be added by clicking on the Multimedia button and selecting Video.

  • Click on the Multimedia button and select Video.
  • a black video screen will be displayed on the top left hand side of the editing area of the page author.
  • Move this to wherever you want the image to be positioned on the page.
  • Enter the name of the file (e.g. welcome_video.flv) into Video Location in the Video Properties area.
  • To view your video, you will need to Preview or Export your intervention.

Image or video type

If you want an image or video to be presented as a feedback object (only to some users but not others) or as an error object (when the end-user clicks the next button but hasn’t filled in required information in the interactions) you will need to choose the corresponding option in the Other Properties section of the properties menu. More details of these different types can be found in on the textbox page.

Adding Audio Files

Save your audio file as an MP3 and insert it into LifeGuide in the same way as a video.