CIM264B Flash MX 2004

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CIM264B Flash MX 2004

• Week 6

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Video

• Getting video into your Flash movie -Import
  the video. -Decide where and how to use it.
• Acceptable Video Files
• Audio Video Interleaved (.avi)
• Digital Video (.dv)
• Motion Picture Experts Group (.mpg, .mpeg)
• Quick Time Movie (.mov)
• Windows Media File (.wmv, .asf)

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Video

• Video Wizard
• Automatically pops up to assist with the video
  settings.

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Video

• Video Wizard
• Link or Embed?
• If Linked Inserts the clip, no editing
  option.If Embed Import entire video or edit?
• Edit the video using In Out markers. You can
  combine pieces of the video into one. (Combine
  list of clips)

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Video

• Video Wizard

Video Clip Window
Video Playhead
Set In Point
Video Timeline
Play Controls
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Video

• Video Wizard
• The circled "in point" and "out point" triangles
  are used to crop the movie
• You can create, rename, and move up or move down
  additional clips

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Video

• Video Wizard
• Compression has 4 default profiles (I. e DSL,
  modem) in addition to establishing your own
  profile.
• Once the compression profile is set up, the
  compression can now be based on either bandwidth
  or quality.

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Video

• Video Wizard
• Bandwidth adjusts your compression techniques
  based only on the bandwidth.

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Video

• Video Wizard.
• Quality/Keyframes adjusting the quality of your
  movie. By having more frames, the transition
  between one frame and another is more smooth

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Video

• Video Wizard.
• High Quality keyframes ensures good consistent
  quality throughout your video
• Quick Compress sacrifices video quality for
  faster compression

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Video

• Video Wizard
• Advanced Editing Color adjustment, Brightness
  Contrast, Scaling, Cropping.
• Finalize the import by clicking on Finish.

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Video

• Sorenson Spark Video Compression
• Controls how video files are compressed when they
  are imported into Flash MX 2004 decompressed so
  they can be viewed in the Flash Player.
• Two methods to compress video
• Spatial Compression
• Compresses each individual frame (intraframes).
• Best for clips that dont change a lot.
• Temporal Compression
• Compares data between frames stores the frame
  differences (interframes).
• Best for clips that have a lot of changes.

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Video

• Sorenson Squeeze
• Separate product www.sorenson.com (trial version
  available)
• More advanced compression
• Good tool of you plan on doing a lot of video
  integration with Flash.

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Video

• Embedded vs. Linked Video
• Embedded
• Inside the file
• Will play in the SWF file
• Linked
• Outside the file
• Need to export file as a QuickTime Movie
• Cannot apply Motion Tween

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Video

• Timeline Selection
• Main Timeline
• Video Clip Streams
• Must have enough frames to play the entire clip
• Movie Clip
• No Streaming
• Reusable (Instances)
• Rotoscoping- involves tracing live-motion film to
  create animation

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Publishing and Exporting

• Delivering your Flash Files in 4 ways
• An SWF file apart from the Web
• An SWF file to be played in the browser
• A Projector file that does not require the Flash
  Player
• A QuickTime File

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Publishing and Exporting

• Using the Flash Player for Delivery
• SWF files can be played on the computer or the
  web (Flash player required).
• Viewer can open the file but not edit it.
• Creating Projector Files
• Self-contained version of your project
• Good for distributing movies via CD-ROM
• Are not cross-platform capable.

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Publishing and Exporting

• Using Quick Time for Delivery
• Can be used on the Web and CD-ROM
• QuickTime 4 or higher
• The Standard Approach Web Delivery
• Generate an SWF file include a reference to it
  using HTML code.
• User needs the Flash plug-in

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Publishing and Exporting
File ? Publish Settings
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Publishing and Exporting

• File formats available in the Publish Settings
  dialog box
• Flash Tab (SwF) This is the file format you
  typically include in an HTML document for the
  Web.
• HTML Tab (.html) Flash creates an HTML document
  with the necessary code to embed your Flash movie
  and deliver it on the Web.
• GIF Tab (.gif) This format allow you to save an
  animated or still gifs, and gives you various
  optimization options.

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Publishing and Exporting

• File formats available in the Publish Settings
  dialog box
• JPEG Tab (.jpg) image dimension and quality
  options you can set.
• PNG Tab (.png) The tab that appears has various
  optimization options.
• Windows Projector (.exe) This is a stand-alone
  Flash movie for Windows.
• Macintosh Projector (.hqx) Same as Windows
  Projector but for Macintosh
• QuickTime Tab (.mov) Creates a QuickTime
  stand-alone video.

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Publishing and Exporting
File ? Publish Settings
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Publishing and Exporting
File ? Publish Settings