| Foreword | p. xi |
| About the Authors | p. xiii |
| About the Technical Reviewer | p. xiv |
| About the Cover Image Designer | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Creating an FLV using the Video Wizard and the Flash 8 Video Encoder | p. 1 |
| Before you import | p. 2 |
| Importing a video with the Flash Video Import Wizard | p. 3 |
| Using the Flash 8 Video Encoder | p. 12 |
| Playing an FLV file in Flash Professional 8 | p. 19 |
| Summary | p. 24 |
| Editing Video for Flash | p. 25 |
| Nonlinear editing | p. 27 |
| Windows Movie Maker | p. 28 |
| Working with clips | p. 30 |
| Editing in Movie Maker | p. 31 |
| Exporting | p. 33 |
| Apple iMovie | p. 35 |
| The iMovie editing modes | p. 37 |
| Working with iMovie clips | p. 38 |
| Exporting your movie | p. 40 |
| Summary | p. 42 |
| Alternative FLV Creation Tools | p. 43 |
| Data rate | p. 44 |
| Using Flix Pro | p. 47 |
| Using Sorenson Squeeze 4 | p. 53 |
| Summary | p. 59 |
| Creating Flash Video Using the FLV Components | p. 61 |
| The FLV Playback component and buffering | p. 62 |
| Creating a custom video controller | p. 64 |
| Creating a custom video player | p. 67 |
| Connecting the video object to a web server | p. 71 |
| Adding playback controls to a streaming video | p. 73 |
| Summary | p. 76 |
| "Talking Head" Video and Alpha Channels | p. 77 |
| Creating an alpha channel video with Adobe Premiere Professional 2 | p. 79 |
| Creating an alpha channel video with After Effects 7 Professional | p. 85 |
| Creating an alpha channel video in Final Cut Pro | p. 93 |
| Creating an FLV file with an alpha channel | p. 97 |
| Playing with alpha channel video in Flash | p. 99 |
| Trimming video | p. 99 |
| Video-on-video | p. 101 |
| Adding cue points to video | p. 102 |
| Cue points and the Flash 8 Video Encoder | p. 103 |
| Alpha video and HTML | p. 109 |
| Summary | p. 112 |
| Adding Filters and Blend Effects to Flash Video | p. 115 |
| Video trick #1: The "point of light" effect | p. 116 |
| Video trick #2: The "ghost in the machine" effect | p. 117 |
| Video trick #3: Somebody fix the dang color! | p. 118 |
| Using ActionScript to control the FLV Playback component | p. 120 |
| Filters and Flash video | p. 124 |
| Applying filters and blends through ActionScript | p. 131 |
| Summary | p. 138 |
| Masking Video | p. 139 |
| Creating a simple mask | p. 140 |
| Using a mask created in Illustrator CS 2 | p. 141 |
| Using an image as a mask | p. 144 |
| A more complex image mask | p. 146 |
| Video masks and ActionScript | p. 151 |
| Drawing with ActionScript | p. 151 |
| Creating a blurred mask | p. 155 |
| Playing with masking colors | p. 160 |
| Masks in motion | p. 163 |
| Summary | p. 165 |
| Building Video Walls | p. 167 |
| Flash text effects and Adobe After Effects 7 | p. 168 |
| From After Effects to Flash | p. 173 |
| It's raining letters | p. 176 |
| Advanced alpha mask creation in After Effects | p. 179 |
| A simple video wall | p. 182 |
| What is the Flash Media Server 2? | p. 183 |
| A video wall with "Wow"! | p. 187 |
| Summary | p. 197 |
| Choosing and Playing Multiple Videos | p. 199 |
| Choosing videos from a list | p. 204 |
| Changing the appearance of the ComboBox component | p. 210 |
| Roll your own components | p. 213 |
| What is this "object" we speak of? | p. 214 |
| Components are your friend | p. 216 |
| Creating a Button component to choose among multiple videos | p. 217 |
| Using video as a button | p. 224 |
| Using transitions with multiple videos | p. 227 |
| A video menu | p. 233 |
| Summary | p. 238 |
| The Camera Object and Flash Video | p. 239 |
| Flash and the camera object | p. 240 |
| A video box | p. 242 |
| Flipping video | p. 244 |
| Playing "Blade Runner" in Times Square | p. 246 |
| Put your user into the action | p. 253 |
| Creating the title in Illustrator | p. 253 |
| Creating the title sequence | p. 255 |
| Pulling it together | p. 256 |
| Call out the "bucket brigade" | p. 260 |
| A little game of "gotcha" | p. 264 |
| Summary | p. 266 |
| ActionScript and Flash Video | p. 267 |
| Creating the "Jordievision" assets | p. 270 |
| "Wiring up" custom components with ActionScript | p. 277 |
| Creating the components and adding them to the stage | p. 283 |
| Pulling it all together with ActionScript | p. 288 |
| Summary | p. 293 |
| Motion Graphics Using Adobe After Effects 7 and Flash Professional 8 | p. 293 |
| After Effects text animation for Flash | p. 296 |
| Doing the "rotation" dance | p. 301 |
| Going for a "spin" in After Effects 7 | p. 304 |
| Text in motion with the "Wiggler" | p. 307 |
| Creating a "wiggly" splash screen | p. 314 |
| Rendering video from After Effects | p. 321 |
| Summary | p. 324 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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