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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]