Chapter 16. Adding Video

From wildlife Web cams to YouTube postings, video is everywhere on the Web. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional makes it easy to add video content to Flash movies to give your audience a full multimedia experience. You can embed video data into the Flash Timeline, add a special component to the Flash document for displaying external video files that have been translated to Adobe Flash Video (FLV) format, or have Flash link to external QuickTime files. The first two options let end users view the video in Flash Player, while the third option requires you to publish your Flash content as a QuickTime movie. Advanced scripters can also use ActionScript to dynamically display FLV files as streaming-video in their Flash creations. ...

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