Macromedia® Flash™ 8 on Demand

Chapter 12. Working with Video

What You’ll Do

• Use the Video Import Wizard

• Work with Video on the Timeline

• Use Movie Clips with Video Files

• Use Video with ActionScript Behaviors

• Control Video Through Movie Clips

• Work with Media Player for Streaming Video

• Work with Media Display Component

• Work with the Media Controller Component

• Export FLV Files from Video-Editing Applications

• Work with Alpha Channel Masks

• Work with the FLV File Format

Introduction

It wasn’t too long ago that Flash and video did not mix. Macromedia introduced Flash to video in MX, and enhanced the feature set in MX 2004. The Flash Video Import Wizard now lets you import a video clip as a streamed from a Flash server, a progressively downloaded from a Web server, an embedded (stored in movie) ...