Flash MX Video

by Hoss Gifford, Kristian Besley, Brian Monnone, et al.

Let's make movies Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities.

This book hopes to take you through all you'll need to know about producing such wonderful sites. The first section will give you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we'll go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output on the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we'll see how you can apply use some advanced ActionScripting with video, and create a fully object-orientated sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again.

The inclusion of video support is the most noticeable and exciting feature in Flash MX - viewers who have the tiny Flash plug-in installed can now see video material that would otherwise necessitate the lengthy downloads and clunky interfaces of other web video plug-ins. This book is the guide you need for this exciting new universe, offering inspiration and technical guidance in equal measures.

This book assumes no knowledge beyond an ability to work with Flash MX's interface, and is not intended for those with substantial digital video experience. As such, this book does not assume that the reader has access to expensive video-editing software. All you need for this book is access to Flash MX, and some imagination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590591720
• ISBN13: 9781590591727
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Flash Video - Quickly

Kristian and Hoss waste no time in their book, they get you and your film into Flash straight away - and show you how to control it.Other MX books waste too much time explaining Scripting techniques, this one gets you going right from the start. All the Actionscript is in thier, as an when you need it & is explained from a real users point of view - not from a coders!Fast & Friendly - just like they say.

Complete Flash Video Guide

Inspiration, code and compression - this book covers it all.In a simple step-following format the writer takes you from editing your clips to putting them up on the net, and gives you plenty of ideas of what you can do in Flash.If you can ignore the 'cool' skateboarding example video (or use your own!) then get this book!

The video bible

This book is a great resource for anyone getting into editing video for the Web. The authors did a great job of presenting the information so we designers can follow, understand and absorb it. And thanks to the authors for including info on Sorenson Squeeze, another necessary tool for putting video on the Web. I had been searching for a book like this for a long time.-LN

Video without tears - it's so easy!

I'd just about given up with Flash and video, the time and effort to import any vid content into Flash 5 killed any fun it might have been.With MX I could get the video in, but it wasn't until I read this book that I had any idea what to do with it.As well as scripting, the book has a whole bunch of tricks you can do to your video clips just within flash - masking, rotating, coloring!!I'm still working my way through the last chapters, but I've learned so much already & I've created my first video website!