Chapter 4: Tutorial: Building A Video Player; (Flash Professional Only) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH Getting Started

CHAPTER 4
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Tutorial: Building a Video Player

(Flash Professional only)

This tutoral guides you through the process of creating a simple video
player by using some of the authoring features in Macromedia Flash
Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8. After it is created, you can deploy the
video player in a web page.
If you have not already done so, Macromedia recommends that before you
take this tutorial you read "Flash basics" on page 57.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Examine the completed application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Create a working folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Encode a video file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Create a new Flash document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Add a media component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Publish your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
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