Flash Video for Professionals : Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web
by Larson, Lisa; Costantini, ReneeEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-07-02
Publisher(s): Sybex
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Summary
More than just a programming guide, this book takes you step by step through the process of gathering and preparing content, asking the right questions, determining the scope of the project and writing the project proposal. The authors cull from their professional experience of running their own digital media company to explain the special considerations in deploying Flash video applications, presenting ideas for solutions as well as tips for avoiding the most common pitfalls.
Author Biography
Lisa Larson and Renée Costantini are cofounders of the digital media firm go:toGroup Inc. As technical director, Larson specializes in Flash video development and was featured as one of ten established developers in Adobe's "Flash: Ten Years, Ten Perspectives." Creative director Costantini is an expert in user interface design and usability. go:toGroup has worked with many start-ups as well as companies like Adobe, L'Oreal, and Microsoft.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Project Archaeology | |
| Scout the Site: Define Client Needs | |
| Getting the Lay of the Land: The Site Survey | |
| Excavation: The Interview | |
| Piece Together the Artifacts: Determine the Appropriate Solution | |
| Anticipate the Pitfalls | |
| Construct the Project Map: The Proposal | |
| Price It Right | |
| Offer Alternate Routes | |
| Summary | |
| Raw Materials: Encoding Basics | |
| Footage Fundamentals | |
| Receiving Source Video from Your Client | |
| Producing Your Own Video | |
| Getting Fancy: Transparent Video | |
| How Do I Create FLVs? Helpful Tips, No Matter What Encoder You Use | |
| Obtaining and Encoding Video | |
| Your Handy-Dandy Encoding Reference | |
| Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Let's Encode | |
| Summary | |
| Creating a Video Delivery Roadmap | |
| Functionality and Flow | |
| Flow Chart | |
| Start Building | |
| Testing 1, 2, 3 | |
| Back Button Considerations | |
| Flash Player Detection | |
| Flash Video Navigation | |
| Keep It Simple | |
| Progressive or Streaming? That Is the Question | |
| Embed Video in SWF | |
| Progressive Download | |
| Streaming | |
| On to the ActionScript! Progressive Delivery: AS2 | |
| Progressive Delivery: AS3 | |
| Streaming Delivery: AS2 | |
| Streaming Delivery: AS3 | |
| Publishing and Hosting Choices | |
| What Is a CDN, and Why Do I Need One? What Is an FVSS? What If I Need More Services? What About Offline Video? FLV to DVD | |
| Don't Copy That Floppy: Digital Rights Management | |
| Summary | |
| OOP and the Video Application | |
| Why All This Hoopla About OOP? What Is OOP? What Are the Key Elements of OOP? Why Is OOP So Useful in Flash Development? And What Does OOP Have to Do with Flash Video? Design Patterns and Flash Video | |
| Model-View-Controller (MVC) | |
| State Design Pattern (SDP) | |
| The Fork in the Road: AS2 vs. AS3 | |
| Which Language Do You Speak Fluently? What Does Your Application Have to Do? What's Your Target Player? Setting Up Your Work Environment | |
| Doing It Our Way: Setting Up Eclipse, FDT, and MTASC for AS2 Development | |
| Viva la Open Source! Summary | |
| The Video Player | |
| So You Need to Play a Video-Where to Begin | |
| Creating a Player Using Components | |
| What the FLV Playback Component Can Do | |
| What It Can't Do | |
| Using the FLV Playback Component in Flash CS3 | |
| Roll Your Own: Creating a Custom Player | |
| Our Player Structure | |
| Dissecting the Code | |
| Skin It! | |
| Summary | |
| Getting It Out There: Test, Optimize, and Deploy | |
| Test It, Then Test It Again. Repeat | |
| Test-Driven Development vs. Testing While Coding | |
| Tests, Tests, and More Tests | |
| Nobody Likes to Wait: Bandwidth Considerations | |
| Video Buffering: Not If, but How Much | |
| Bandwidth Detection: How Much Can We Push Through That Pipe? 3, 2, 1... Ready to Launch! Progressive Deployment | |
| Streaming Deployment | |
| But Wait, There's More: Project Wrap-up | |
| Revisiting the Spec Sheet | |
| Final Walkthrough | |
| Launching | |
| Deliverables: Documentation and Asset Files | |
| Schedule a Meeting | |
| Archiving | |
| Summary | |
| Dynamic Playlists | |
| When Clients Attack: Handling Content Updates | |
| Playlists in the Wild: Your Options | |
| PlaylistListBox.fla: Simple Array into a ListBox | |
| PlaylistListBox_XML.fla: XML Data into a ListBox | |
| Mixing It Up: Sequential and Shuffle Playback | |
| PlayListAutoPlay.fla: Sequential Playback | |
| PlaylistShuffle.fla: Playing Random Videos from Your Playlist | |
| Integrating an XML Playlist into the MVC Player | |
| test_playlist.xml | |
| AS2: MediaPlayer.as | |
| AS3: Main.as | |
| Summ | |
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