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Flash is by far the leading web video platform, enabling you to put your marketing message or artistic vision online in a form that can be viewed by almost anyone with a web browser. In these tutorials, VTC author, Michael Hurwicz, provides all the information you need to publish your own Flash video projects. From putting a video onto your website quickly, easily and elegantly to implementing a customized video player of your own design, these tutorials will provide the foundation you need to accomplish your goals with web video. Join the web video revolution: Create your own cutting edge; media-rich web sites with Flash CS4 Professional. Work Files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the movie links.
Welcome to this set of tutorials on Flash Video. If you're interested in using Flash Video to generate revenue, to educate, to communicate more effectively to your customers, or to create a multimedia site that's more interactive and involving, this series of tutorials was produced for you. Flash is the most popular multimedia tool for the Internet. It allows you to create video online that almost anyone with a browser can view. And in these tutorials you'll get all the information that you need to publish video using Flash from very easy and simple techniques to more sophisticated and feature-rich approaches. I do assume that you already have the video, so this is not a course in video production, it's about taking existing video and working with it and publishing it online using flash. I start with the basics, try to give you a good solid foundation in the terminology and concepts of Flash Video, maybe demystify the jargon a little bit. We talk about importing and exporting video from the Flash environment, and about using components like the FLVPlayback component to deploy video. I do go into ActionScript for Flash Video quite extensively. I do try to keep the action script as straightforward as possible, and in addition quite often 99 percent of it is generic and you can adapt it to your own uses, just by changing one little thing such as the name of the video file that you want to play. Be sure to download the Work Files. These are all working examples that you can modify for your own use. We talk about using captions and cue points. I show you how to create an automated speech transcript and in that particular example we use not just Flash but we go into Premier Pro and Sound Booth. I do include some examples of streaming media using the Flash Media Server, and also the F4V file format that uses the H.264 Codec, which is a new feature in Flash CS4. I show you how to use some other cool new CS4 features such as 3D animation and the Motion Editor with Flash Video. I go into Alpha Channels, applying filters and blend modes to video using Pixel Bender to create custom filters and blend modes and get some really cool effects. I do assume some basic familiarity with the Flash Interface, on the other hand particularly in the early tutorials I do try to go step by step even for very basic things like opening a panel from the Window Menu. And then in later tutorials I may assume that you know that now. So, let's get started. I hope that you'll find these tutorials fun, informative and useful, and that they'll help you accomplish your goals with Flash Video.