Flash is by far the leading web video platform, enabling you to put your marketing message or artistic vision online in a form that can be viewed by almost anyone with a web browser. In these tutorials, author, Michael Hurwicz, provides all the information you need to publish your own Flash video projects. From putting a video onto your website quickly, easily and elegantly to implementing a customized video player of your own design, these tutorials will provide the foundation you need to accomplish your goals with web video. Join the web video revolution: Create your own cutting edge; media-rich web sites with Flash CS4 Professional. Work Files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the movie links.
Flash Video Basics
Overview Encoding & Keyframes Video Codecs & Flash Player Version Bit Rate / Frame Rate & Frame Size Video Standards: NTSC & PAL Pixel Aspect Ratio Interlaced vs. Progressive Video Deploying Flash Video
Overview of Flash Video Embedded vs. External Video Progressive Download vs. Streaming Deploying with Dreamweaver Deploying Video with Flash pt. 1 Deploying Video with Flash pt. 2 Deploying Video with Flash pt. 3 Deploying with SWFObject pt. 1 Deploying with SWFObject pt. 2 A Note on IE's ActiveX Warning Working with SWFObject
SWFObject & JW Player pt. 1 SWFObject & JW Player pt. 2 SWFObject & JW Player pt. 3 Not Using Optional Arguments SWFObject Generator
Video Import & Export
Flash Video Import Options pt. 1
Flash Video Import Options pt. 2
Flash Video Import Options pt. 3
Flash Video Export – FLV & AVI
Flash Video Export – MOV
Exporting Flash Animation
Exporting a Sequence of Images
FLVPlayback Component 3.0 version
Introduction & Setup
align / autoPlay / cuePoints / isLive / preview
scaleMode & Other Parameters
Customizing the Skin pt. 1
Customizing the Skin pt. 2
Introduction to ActionScript for Flash Video
Overview
Behaviors for Embedded Video pt. 1
Behaviors for Embedded Video pt. 2
The Actions Panel
ActionScript 3.0 vs. ActionScript 2.0
Instantiating an FLVPlayback Component in AS
Creating & Loading a Preview Image pt. 1
Creating & Loading a Preview Image pt. 2
Creating & Loading a Preview Image pt. 3
Setting the Buffer Time pt. 1
Setting the Buffer Time pt. 2
Captions & Cue Points
FLVPlaybackCaptioning Component pt. 1
FLVPlaybackCaptioning Component pt. 2
Formatting Captions with Timed Text XML
Captions with Cue Points & Dynamic Text pt. 1
Captions with Cue Points & Dynamic Text pt. 2
Viewing Metadata Including Cue Points
Seekable Transcript Using Cue Points
Dynamic Cue Points for FLVPlayback pt. 1
Dynamic Cue Points for FLVPlayback pt. 2
Automated Speech Transcript
Overview
Premiere Pro pt. 1
Premiere Pro pt. 2
Soundbooth & Media Encoder
Flash pt. 1
Flash pt. 2
The AS2.0 FLVPlayback Component
Manual & Dynamic Instantiation
FLVPlayback with the Window Component pt. 1
FLVPlayback with the Window Component pt. 2
FLVPlayback with the Window Component pt. 3
FLVPlayback with the Window Component pt. 4
Get Window Title from FLV Metadata pt. 1
Get Window Title from FLV Metadata pt. 2
Get Window Title from FLV Metadata pt. 3
Assign Parameters in HTML with SWFObject
Scope / Timelines & “this”
Players 6 & 7 Using MediaPlayback
Overview & Limitations
Determining the Codec for an Existing FLV
MediaPlayback Component for Flash 6 pt. 1
MediaPlayback Component for Flash 6 pt. 2
MediaPlayback Component for Flash 6 pt. 3
ActionScript for MediaPlayback pt. 1
ActionScript for MediaPlayback pt. 2
ActionScript for MediaPlayback pt. 3
FLVPlayback Parameters (AS 3.0)
align / autoPlay & cuePoints
isLive / preview & scaleMode
Skin Parameters / Volume
Adding a Custom Buffering Indicator pt. 1
Adding a Custom Buffering Indicator pt. 2
Adding a Custom Buffering Indicator pt. 3
Adding a Custom Buffering Indicator pt. 4
Adding Playback Controls pt. 1
Adding Playback Controls pt. 2
Displaying Playhead Time
Volume Control pt. 1
Volume Control pt. 2
Volume Control pt. 3
Volume Control pt. 4
SWFObject & flashvars pt. 1
SWFObject & flashvars pt. 2
Adjusting to Internet Connection Speed
Setting Buffer Time pt. 1
Setting Buffer Time pt. 2
Setting Buffer Time pt. 3
Offering Multiple Bit Rates: Introduction
FLVPlayback with SMIL pt. 1
FLVPlayback with SMIL pt. 2
FLVPlayback with SMIL pt. 3
Dynamic Streaming pt. 1
Dynamic Streaming pt. 2
Dynamic Streaming pt. 3
Other Cool Fun Stuff
Using an Alpha Channel
Applying Filters to Video pt. 1
Applying Filters to Video pt. 2
Applying Filters to Video pt. 3
Blend Modes pt. 1
Blend Modes pt. 2
Blend Modes & Subtract
Blend Modes / Erase & Alpha
Blend Modes & ActionScript
Pixel Bender pt. 1
Pixel Bender pt. 2
Pixel Bender pt. 3
Pixel Bender pt. 4
Tween / Rotate / 3D & Motion Editor pt. 1
Tween / Rotate / 3D & Motion Editor pt. 2
Course Wrap Up
Review
About the Author