8. Adding and Controlling Video and Sound

Lesson Overview

Web video is everywhere—news, sports, entertainment, e-commerce, corporate communications, education, blogs, and social networking are a just few examples. Thanks to sites like YouTube and Hulu, more and more people are going directly to the web for their daily dose of information, and they expect to be entertained.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Prepare video for the web

• Import video and sound

• Preview video and sound

• Add video to an application

• Control video playback

• Add sound effects

This lesson will take about 60 minutes to complete. Copy the Lesson08 folder into the lessons folder that you created on your hard drive for these projects (or create ...

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