Flash MX Video
Todd Marks, Hoss Gifford, Kristian Besley, Brian MonnoneBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
Let's make movies! Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface! With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities.
This book hopes to take you through all you'll need to know about producing such wonderful sites. The first section will give you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we'll go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output on the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we'll see how you can apply use some advanced ActionScripting with video, and create a fully object-orientated sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again.
The inclusion of video support is the most noticeable and exciting feature in Flash MX - viewers who have the tiny Flash plug-in installed can now see video material that would otherwise necessitate the lengthy downloads and clunky interfaces of other web video plug-ins. This book is the guide you need for this exciting new universe, offering inspiration and technical guidance in equal measures.
This book assumes no knowledge beyond an ability to work with Flash MX's interface, and is not intended for those with substantial digital video experience. As such, this book does not assume that the reader has access to expensive video-editing software. All you need for this book is access to Flash MX, and some imagination.
Synopsis
Go to Macromedia's web site, take a look at the list of the top ten features in the exciting new Flash MX release, and you'll find that the number one new feature is the ability to include genuine video material in Flash for the first time.
In Flash 5, incorporating video functionality in Flash presentations was possible for only a select few designers, and then only after a lot of hard work and some work-arounds. Now, Flash MX gives everyone the opportunity to use the dramatic impact of video in their site design, sure in the knowledge that the ubiquitous Flash player will allow their audience to view the results of their work.
friends of ED were the only publisher to take the increase of video use with Flash 5 seriously, and have substantial experience of publishing on Digital Video technologies with their DVision imprint. With Flash MX Video, they use this knowledge to take a reader from their first encounter with video to creating the ultimate Flash site with video and sound. The book includes:
This book is not intended for those with substantial digital video experience and, as such, will not assume that the reader has access to expensive video-editing software. All you need for this book is Flash MX, and some imagination.
Author Biography: Hoss Gifford is one of the founding directors of Flammable Jam (www.flamjam.com), and curator of his personal site www.h69.net. He regularlysponges his way around the world, getting free flights in exchange for talking at new media seminars, including Flash Forward and Milia. Hoss reckons we should all take stuff a bit less seriously, and be happy with making 'quite nice things that entertain people for a wee while', as can be seen from his other two sites www.katakanaguestbook.com and www.flashsprint.com.
Kristian Besley was born in Wales, grew up in the same street as Catherine Zeta Jones, and read Media Arts following interests in film and design. To this day his love of all things lo-fi is extended to his pilipala.co.uk website. In his lack of spare time, you'll most likely find him playing 5-string punk rock guitar and reminiscing about how nothing else will ever be as good as the Spectrum 48k.