A few months ago I was speaking about Flash Video at the Digital Design World Conference in Seattle. During the course of the presentation, I showed the Vodafone Future Vision site to the attendees. The site makes extensive use of Flash Video, and I made the point that video on the web is no longer constrained to a flat space and doesn't have to resemble TV with playback controls. In one section of the site, a young woman wears a video bracelet (see Figure 1), which she uses to communicate with her friends during a club crawl in London. The point I made to the audience was: Video can be added anywhere and incorporated into your interactive media designs.

Figure 1. The Flash presentation that started me thinking, “Is it hard?” Check it out on the Vodafone Future Vision site.

About a week later, I received an e-mail from one of the conference attendees mentioning the Vodafone section of the presentation and making the observation, “That must have been really hard to do,” which got me wondering, “Is it really hard to do?”

I started up Macromedia Studio, and 45 minutes later, I had a working streaming video in the visual bracelet. Turns out it isn't that hard and that Fireworks MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 are an unbeatable combination when it comes to workflow.

In this tutorial, I walk you through the steps, from concept to upload, necessary to create a rather interesting video presentation that appears in a Sony CLIÉ. This tutorial is also based on a series of two I originally wrote at Community MX. This one takes the concept to the next level.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional

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Tutorials and sample files:

• web_video_samples.zip (ZIP, 4MB)

Prerequisite Knowledge:

• Familiarity with Fireworks MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004.This tutorial is designed for those with a beginner to intermediate level of knowledge with both applications.

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