Sometimes, Flash just isn’t the right tool for the job at hand. It’s not great at creating textured buttons, for example. Luckily for us Adobe users, Fireworks is – and we can drag an object from Fireworks to Flash in about ten seconds.
This Quick Tip will show you how.
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The creative uses for alpha channel video aren’t limited to your local weatherman. In this Basix installment I’m going to show you how to pull a key in After Effects CS4, how to create an alpha channel video in the Adobe Media encoder, how to use that video in Flash and then we’ll wind up the lesson looking at ways to creatively use alpha channel video in Flash.
Ready? Let’s get started..
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In my previous article I showed you how to export a code-driven animation for video playback. The problem with writing these things is that everything is wonderful because I get to focus on a single task – but everyone then thinks, “Cool, I can do that” and then discovers they have walked into a minefield because preparing Flash for broadcast requires a lot of work behind the scenes.
In this article, I am going to walk you through some of the more important things you need to know and do when preparing Flash projects for broadcast.
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Getting started with the bones tool can be intimidating and tricky, but it can be your best friend for animating once you’ve had some practice. You can create bones (armatures) for graphic shapes (like a simple triangle) or a set of movie clips. During this screencast, I’ll demonstrate using the bones tool with shapes and will follow up using bones with movie clips.
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In the days of Macromedia, working between Flash and QuickTime was rough territory for designers and animators. Then in 2007, when Adobe took the helm and released Flash CS3, a lot of compatibility issues were resolved.
In this exercise, I am going to show you how a purely code-driven animation can be exported as a QuickTime movie and further enhanced in After Effects CS4.
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There are two good reasons for keeping your Flash project organized: first, it makes it easier to package up your output files for deployment; second, it stops coders and designers getting in each other’s way!
In this Quick Tip screencast, Daniel Apt demonstrates how to set up your project’s folders, and shows three standard ways of doing so.
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Here it is, the final part of our video player tutorial! All we need to do now is get the time indicator working, add our home button click function, position and size the current video and get the featured bar filled with videos along with its scrubber. Let’s get started!
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It’s on to part two of our Custom AS3 Video Player! In the previous chapter we became familiar with the start file, added some interactivity to the buttons and (most importantly) got the video playing.
In this second part we are going to set up the xml for all the the videos settings. We will change how our player loads videos and get preloaders working for all of our thumbnails. We will be able to add, change and modify our videos on the fly with XML. Let’s get started!
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Almost every Flash developer has had to make a video player at some point. There are quite a few different ways of doing this; some people use the built in NetStream Class and some use the FLVPlayback component in Flash. Either way will work, but we are going to use the NetStream Class because of how much lighter it is and what you can do with it.
This is a large tutorial that will be broken down to three parts. Each part will build off the previous one until we have our final result. Our player will be able to use an XML file to populate three galleries with an unlimited amount of categories, and an unlimited amount of videos in each category.
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This tutorial is aimed at those who are new to Flash Video, are thinking of getting into it, or are just plain scared of it because, well, it’s video and video’s complicated..
By the end of this screencast, you’ll have been made aware that it isn’t difficult to achieve great results and that the process from encode to upload is in fact fairly uncomplicated.
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