Chapter 2. Crop, Resize, & Edit Video

Now it’s time to play director. While the Flash Video Encoder is not a full-fledged video editor like Windows Movie Maker or Apple’s iMovie, it includes video-editing tools particularly relevant to videos that will be included in Web pages.

You can slim down your video file size using the editing techniques available in Flash Video Encoder to make your videos smaller and therefore faster to download.

Crop, Resize, & Edit Video

Trim Video

We’ll reduce download time by trimming the first ten seconds from the beginning and the end of the video. (See extra bits on Page 20.)

With the record.mov video file added to the queue of files to encode, ...

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