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In this film we'll make sure you have everything you need in place to get the most out of the MasterClass! Adobe Media Encoder and embedding Flash video in Dreamweaver CS4. I'll go through the list of what you need and then I'll show you some of the things we'll be doing in class so you can kind of plan ahead and have all your own pieces in place. You'll need Adobe Media Encoder CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4. Both of these programs are available as 30-day free trial downloads from Adobe. Adobe Media Encoder CS4 downloads with Flash CS4. You'll also need a video and before you decide whether or not you want your own video or you want to use one of mine, stick around for the rest of this video and I think at the end of it you'll be in a good position to make that call. You should be comfortable with your Operating System and as I mentioned in a previous video, if you've been exposed to Dreamweaver great, if not I'm not going to assume that you know Dreamweaver, we'll take everything from scratch as far as creating a Dreamweaver website and web page that can hold an embedded video. We'll dive into Adobe Media Encoder CS4 shortly. I'll show you how to navigate the Interface. Importantly I'm going to be showing you how to define Preferences so you'll learn to save files, you'll learn to track where you've saved a file and you'll learn to set up automatic naming for files when you produce multiple versions of a video in Media Encoder. I'll also show you how to adjust the look of Media Encoder, how to change things like the way the program looks and how to define Tapehead increments, which can either be defined in frames, like 1 second 12 frames or in seconds like 1 second 30 milliseconds. And I'll show you how to queue up files in the Adobe Media Encoder Queue. Here's the kind of thing we'll be doing once we dive into Media Encoder. I'm going to show you how to choose from different file formats that you might want to export your file to. For example, you might have a QuickTime Movie, you might want to export a fast downloading FLV video file, an audio track in MP3 format and a quality still photo to use for publicity as a TIFF image. I'll also show you how to use Adobe Media Encoder's many varied and powerful Presets like the ones on the right where right now I'm in the process of changing my selection from an Apple iPod Video Small to an Apple iPod Audio Track in high quality. So we'll explore these Presets. Keep all this in mind when you prepare for the course. A couple of things we'll be doing, as I mentioned, is we'll be extracting high-quality still photos from a video so for example if you've got a video and you're thinking, gee, you know, there's a frame in there I would really like to have up on my website to invite people to watch the video, I'm going to show you how to extract that frame and make it into a high-quality still, so think about that in advance. I'm also going to show you how to extract audio tracks and we'll be discussing both extracting audio tracks and how to manage the quality of an audio track as part of a video, so for example, on the right I'm selecting a 96 kilobyte per second audio track in MP3 format. That's about CD quality. Think about this again when you're preparing a video that you might want to use in class and again, there's an option of just using my video as well. Finally think about the editing you might want to do on your video. In the video below I'm resetting, that is trimming, the starting point of this video to shorten it and in the video on the right I'm cropping the size of the video to make it smaller for the web. Let me take this opportunity to review and preview the advantages of exporting video to the Flash video format. Now don't confuse Flash video with Flash files. Flash files, also called SWFs, because they're file name extension is swf, are a completely different thing than Flash Video files. Flash Video is the most popular format for video on the Internet. It's very widely supported; its operating system neutral, that is, it's supported equally on Windows, Mac, and Linux. FLV Video has the advantage of being highly compressed. That means the file sizes are smaller. They take up less space at your server and they download faster. Also, Flash Video has very efficient streaming, which means videos start playing right away. This is the reason that formats and venues like YouTube, for example, have adopted Flash Video as their format. The other thing to keep in mind is that compressing an audio track is a distinct process. That is to say, you first make a decision about how you want to compress your video file. You select a format, you select a size and so on. Then you make a separate decision about how much you want to compress your audio track. So all these are decisions we'll explore in the course of this class and again, I invite you to bring your own video.