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The use of video content on web sites is becoming increasingly popular as broadband usage continues to grow, and the software and hardware necessary to create video becomes both more affordable and more accessible. The Flash platform provides one of the best, and most appropriate ways of delivering video content to the web. Flash Video (FLV) is a small and efficient video format, and Flash providing an environment that enables you to easily add effects and manipulate to video content. Flash 8 has taken the platform's handling of video to another level, with new features added that, as a cutting edge designer, you will want to make the most of.This book is dedicated solely to Flash 8 Video development, and aims to provide you with the skills necessary to confidently add video content to your Flash web sites. It starts off with the basics, so that even if you've little Flash experience you'll be up and running quickly. It then steps up a gear, and by the end of the book, you'll be creating advanced interactive video applications, using video alpha channels, masking, blends and filters, the Camera object, and much more!To add further value to the book, time is spent showing how to manipulate your video using popular applications such as After Effects, Movie Maker, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, and Premiere Pro, getting them closer to how you'd like them to look before they are imported into Flash.Summary of Contents: Creating FLVs using the Video Wizard and the Flash 8 FLV Encoder The Basics of Video Creation Alternate FLV Creation tools: Sorenson Squeeze 4 and Flix Pro 5 Creating Flash Video using the FLV Components Creating a Talking head video using Alpha Channels Adding Filters and BlendEffects to Flash Video Masking Video Creating a Video Wall Choosing and Playing Multiple Videos Using the Camera Object to Involve the Audience Actionscript and Flash Video Video Delivery to Cell Phones
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Video on the Internet is becoming hugely popular due to higher bandwidth making it feasible, and improvements in software are putting it within the reach of anyone with a reasonable level of computer literacy. This is one of the first books solely dedicated to Flash 8 Video development and goes a lot deeper into the subject than other books. It is suitable for those with no previous Flash experience who want to discover the best way to create video applications for the Web. It starts with the very basics, and by the end of the book the reader will be creating advanced interactive video applications, using video alpha channels, masking, blends and filters, the Camera object, and much more. Flash 8 features a lot of new advancements for video, and developers are crying out for information on its uses. This book fulfills that need.
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Dedicated solely to Flash 8 Video development, this book develops the skills necessary to confidently add video content to Flash Web sites. By the last chapter, readers will be creating advanced interactive video applications, using video alpha channels, and employing masking, blends and filters, the camera object, and much more.
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Do you want to master Flash video work, and work your way toward creating awesome, mind-blowing, interactive web applications? Well, don?t go any further this full color book is all you need to step into the future.
When Flash Professional 8 was released, it seemed as if we?d embarked on a web video revolution almost overnight. Up until then, web video was a morass of competing players, technologies, standards, codecs, and playback quality. The inclusion of the On2 VP6 codec, the FLV Playback component, alpha channel video, and the Flash 8 Video Encoder has ended the infancy of web video, creating an instant benchmark with no stops in between.
And this book is the ultimate guide to Flash 8 video it offers practical advice, technical guidance, and a full series of creative projects ranging from the dead simple to the complex in a manner that talks to you as an equal and makes only one assumption: basic familiarity with the Flash interface.
We start with the basicshow to edit video in some of the most popular packages available (such as iMovie and Movie Maker 2) and create a Flash video file and import it into Flash.
Next, we move on to the good stuffcreating a custom video player; creating an alpha channel video and using it in some spectacular projects; turning your creativity loose by applying filters and blend effects to video using the Flash interface and ActionScript; creating video walls, menus, and stunning masking effects; and exploring how Adobe After Effects 7 and Flash Professional 8 are poised to become a motion graphics powerhouse. Best of all, you will discover something the authors had discovered by the time they started writing this book...this stuff is fun