Chapter 11: Working With Video - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

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CHAPTER 11
Working with Video
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 are powerful tools for incorporating video
footage into web-based presentations. Flash Video offers technological and creative benefits
that let you create immersive, rich experiences that fuse video together with data, graphics,
sound, and interactive control. Flash Video lets you easily put video on a web page in a format
that almost anyone can view. This chapter provides an introduction to Flash Video, including
information on how to create and publish Flash Video.
This chapter includes the following topics:
About video features in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
About using video in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274
Video and the Property inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
About digital video and Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Importing video using the Video Import wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284
Encoding video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Importing Flash Video files into the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
About playing back external FLV files dynamically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Changing the properties of a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Controlling video playback using behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Using the FLVPlayback component (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
About controlling video playback using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Media components (Flash Player 6 and 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
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