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Archive for October, 2007

Free AIR application: Convert Final Cut Pro Markers to Flash Video Cue Points

Friday, October 26th, 2007

UPDATE: I’ve updated this to work with AIR 1.0. One of the things that I’ve found difficult is using the markers I’ve set in Final Cut Pro as cue points in a Flash Video file. I also find using the controls in Adobe’s Flash CS3 Video Encoder to be cumbersome. A wonderful thought came to [...]

Closed Captions and Flash Video

Monday, October 1st, 2007

This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. Adding Closed Captions to Flash Video First, download the example file: captions-player.zip. Unzip this archive, open the folder captions-player and then open captions-player.fla in Flash Professional CS3. Open [...]

Tiny Flash Video Player

Monday, October 1st, 2007

This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. To create a very small swf that plays Flash Video without hiccuping on cue points, follow these steps. First download the example file, simple-player.zip. Open the Library Panel. [...]

Customizing FLVPlayback Components

Monday, October 1st, 2007

This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. To create a video player with the FLV playback components, follow these steps Download the example file custom-player.zip. Unarchive it, open the folder custom-player, and open the file [...]

Inserting Video in Flash

Monday, October 1st, 2007

This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. Importing video into Flash Professional CS3 is eezee peezee. First, download the example file: video_wizard.zip. Unzip this archive and then open wizard-example.fla in Flash Professional CS3. Select File [...]