Flash CS3 video component tutorial

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The video components is a prebuilt interface elements (widgets) that will speed up programming of video integration. This is part of Flash CS3 tutorials.

Learning goals

Learn how to create and use the Flash 9 (CS3) video component

Learn some Action Script 3.0

Prerequisites

Flash CS3 desktop tutorial

Flash drawing tutorial

Flash components tutorial

Moving on

The Flash article has a list of other tutorials.

Quality

This text should technical people get going and may not be good enough for self-learning beginners. It can be used as handout in a "hands-on" class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...

Level

It aims at beginners. More advanced features and tricks are not explained here.

The executive summary

Flash has built-in video management components.

However, using these components still requires basic knowledge of ActionScript. In this article we will try to show a few design patterns that you can copy and adapt.

The executive summary

Preparing your video

Video encoding with Flash CS3

This package includes a video encode with which you can define cue points:

• event points
• navigation points

To encode a video

• Open the tool
• Add ... button to add a new video.
• Settings to define output settings and to add video cues, etc.
• Start Queue to encode.

I use the medium Flash quality with default codecs.

CuePoint Settings

Adobe CS3 Video Encoder

Other tools

If you have a modern cell phone it may encode in MP4. Flash 9 (CS3) can not import this format. The only good and free tool I know is SUPER (it actually has more features than many commercial tools).

Read the MP4 article to see how I managed to use the free (and excellent) SUPER encoder to go from MP4 to MPV with MPEG3-v2/MP3.