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My Google IO Talk is on YouTube

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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

Updated Version of Convert Final Cut Pro Markers to Flash Video Cue Points

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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.
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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 me […]

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 the Components panel.
Open the […]

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. (Window > Library). […]