Flash Video For Professionals: Expert Techniques For Integrating Video On The Web

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Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web gives Flash professionals the know-how to integrate Flash video seamlessly, as seen on such websites as YouTube, CNET, Discovery Channel, MySpace, and JibJab.The book provides a framework and the professional solutions to make custom Flash video more accessibleto those with intermediate programming skills. But it’s not just a programming guide. The book takes the developer through the process of gathering and preparing content, asking the right questions, determining the scope of the project and writing the project proposal. Authors Lisa Larson and Renee Costantini cull from their professional experience of running their own digital media company to explain in detail the special considerations in deploying Flash video applications, with ideas for solutions as well as avoiding the most common pitfalls. Table of contents : IntroductionChapter 1 Project ArchaeologyChapter 2 Raw Materials: Encoding BasicsChapter 3 Creating a Video Delivery RoadmapChapter 4 OOP and the Video ApplicationChapter 5 The Video PlayerChapter 6 Getting It Out There: Test, Optimize, and DeployChapter 7 Dynamic PlaylistsChapter 8 Demystifying Metadata and Cue PointsChapter 9 Bending Pixels with Filters and MasksChapter 10 Video and the BitmapData ObjectChapter 11 Live Video and Webcams: FMSIndex About Author : Lisa Larson and Renee Costantini are co-founders of digital media firm go:toGroup Inc. Larson is the technical director, specializing in Flash Video development. She was selected in Adobe’s Top 10 Flash developers for the 10th anniversary of Flash. Costantini is creative director at go:toGroup, specializing in UI design and usability. go:toGroup’s clients include Adobe, Ford, Hasbro, L’Oreal, and Microsoft.