tailieunhanh - Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P12

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P12: Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available-allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better | VIDEO The source files are available online from either of the following sites isbn 1430229940 The authors would like to thank William Hanna Dean of the School of Media Studies at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto and Robert O Meara a faculty member with the Film and Television Arts program at Humber for permission to use many of the videos in this chapter. The videos were produced by students of Humber s Interactive Multimedia program and Film and Television program. We also want to thank Phoebe Boswell for letting us use her student project The Girl With Stories In Her Hair and to her instructor Birgitta Hosea at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London UK for introducing us to Phoebe. Video on the Web Before we turn you loose with creating and playing Flash video it is critically important that you understand how it gets from the server to the user s machine. The Flash video format uses the .mp4 .mov .flv or .f4v extension. The first two must be encoded using the codec and AAC encoding for the audio track. It plays only in Flash Adobe Bridge or Adobe Media Player a free AIR application available from products mediaplayer . The key thing about this format is that the data is sent to the user s computer from the server and then Flash Player plays it. To help you understand this process let s go visit the Hoover Dam in the United States. The Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s to control the Colorado River. When the dam was completed the water behind it backed up to form Lake Mead. Now the water flows along the Colorado River into Lake Mead and the dam releases that water in a controlled manner back into the Colorado River. That means if the water rushes to the dam and overwhelms it or the dam operator releases too much water the people downstream from the dam are in for a really bad day. Streaming video is no different from the water .