Engaging User Experiences with App Engine, the talk Lindsey Simon and I gave at Google I/O has been posted on YouTube. Enjoy!

I finally got around to updating the AIR utility for converting Flash Video Cue Points. It works with AIR 1.0. To get the new version, download: http://www.skidgel.com/flv/markerstocuepoints102.zip To learn how to use it, see this post.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]