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Building a video player with Flash

R Blank

Almer/Blank
Rich Media Institute
LA Flash

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Created:: 02 May 2007
User Level:: Advanced
Products:: Flash

It’s never been easier to create an FLV video player. Using Flash® 8 Professional, you can easily create a video player with sophisticated controls. Watch this short video tutorial to learn how.

video tutorial

Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

Requirements

To complete this article, you will need the following software:

Flash Professional

Prerequisite knowledge:

Basic knowledge of Flash 8

Where to go from here

For more information about Flash, see the following:

About the authors

R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank, an Adobe Solution Partner based in Venice, California, that specializes in video and application development for the Flash platform. He is the lead author of AdvancED Flex applications: Building Rich Media X (Friends of ED, 2007) as well as the author/instructor for the JumpStart Flash CS3 training DVD from Magnet Media. R founded and manages LA Flash, a community of over 3000 industry professionals. He also runs the Rich Media Institute, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, and teaches at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Previously, R co-founded Wildform where he was a co-creator of Flix, the first video encoder for Flash.

Excerpted from “Inside Macromedia Flash 8: Project-Based Training” by Digital Media Training Series™. Copyright © 2007. To purchase the full-length, video-based training title, visit www.digitalmediatraining.com/products/adobepro1/flash8/.

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