Category Archives: Flash

Draggable

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In between my work and personal projects I have going on at the moment I am trying to work on a particular project which I am quite excited about. I don’t want to reveal too much yet but it should be an exciting addition to my portfolio site [...]

Flash video best practise

Working with rich-media I have obviously needed to work with video and more specifically flash video, I have been trying to find out more and more about how to squeeze every last pixel of quality from a file whilst keeping the file weight to a minimum.
I discovered a fantastic selection of articles on adobe.com written [...]

Flash Video Bitrate Calculator

I was surprised to recently find that many people are unaware of the fantastic Flash video bitrate calculator that was created by Robert Reinhardt and is hosted on the Adobe.com. I swear by this tool and now used it every single time I need to encode a video in the .flv format.
You pass in the [...]

Particles stage1

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I am beginning to become more and more fascinated by particles, particle systems, physics and artificial life/intelligence algorithms. To cut a long story short I wish I knew what Keith Peters does. Following on from a tutorial he wrote in the Friends of Ed book New Masters of [...]

ActionScript 3.0 tips and tricks

I have just seen that Senocular over on the Kirupa forum has created a HUGE post and continues to add new AS3 tips and tricks to it.
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22379

Interactive 360 scrubber

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After developing the interactive and standard video scrubbers I wanted to create a version that would allow me to drag and rotate an object or scene a full 360 degrees. Rather than using 3D in flash, I wanted to find a way to create the effect that would [...]

Flash + Arduino

Thanks to the great guys over at tinker.it I have been on two workshops recently to learn more about physical computing, human – computer interaction and electronics. The first workshop was lead by Alex Zivanovic and Benjamin Tomlinson who gave great introductions to physical computing, Processing, Arduino, and basic electronics. The second workshop was more [...]

Interactive video scrubber

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Developing the Video Scrubber further I have added ‘hot spots’ to the animation so as you drag through the video, you simultaniously drag through the hot spots as well. These can be toggled using the controls.
There are some really cool existing examples of this effect, and there are [...]

Video scrubber

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I have been using my R&D time recently to explore better ways of creating interactive video experiences, scrolling, dragging, scrubbing and interacting with video. This prototype breaks a video in to an image sequence of around 340 jpgs, loads the jpgs in and then allows the user to [...]

Papervision 2.0

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I’ve just checked on the gotoandlearn.com site and noticed another Papervision3D tutorial, as I’m really hoping to try and push my development in Papervision3D it made sense to try my hand at it. I may try and create some alternate versions of this over the next weekn and [...]