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Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web
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Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web |
Author: Lisa Larson
Published: 2007-07-02 |
List price: $39.99
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 The Missing Link (for Flash Vidheads)
This book is a much-needed resource and road map to creating all kinds of Flash video for the web. Authors Larson and Constantini begin with a chapter on project archaeology and conclude with a chapter on live video. In between, they cover all the nooks and crannies from encoding, the big picture of Object Oriented Programming, dynamic playlists.....in others words: Flash Video from soup to nuts. Coming from a traditional non-web video background in editing and graphics, this book is quite simply the book I'd been hoping would appear once I began to dabble in Flash development. Up to this point, most Flash books usually have a standard chapter or two about video. This book is the whole enchilada and delivers a fantastic "forest for the trees" perspective on planning, creating and deploying Flash video websites. The text is very well-articulated on subject matter that is quite complex. Whether you're an advanced specialist ready to dip right into the Action Script and get your own Flash video ball rolling or you need a quick primer in order to talk the talk with a Flash colleague, this book is your pixel-perfect friend. From a technical standpoint, there is a lot here, but one can browse very easily for quick solutions. From a creative standpoint, there are many inspiring examples and recipes to apply everything from a simple YouTube interface to a more ambitious video wall a la Nam Jun Paik to a website. Ultimately, I enjoyed the book mostly in how it challenged me to approach Flash video as its own art and craft, however new. From cue points to video skins to custom players; the sky's the limit. Let this book be your breath of fresh FLV air.
And now I know the why
A lot of books focus on telling you what to do. This is great as it enables you to get the job done.
Far too often people who write technical manuals think that is all the learner requires in order to retain knowledge.
Thank goodness this book doesn't stop there. It tells you WHY things should be done this way in addition to the HOW. I've found this process much more reliable as a means to transmit information in a sticky format.
I've been working with Flash video for years and have found through trial and error how to get videos to work properly.
This book finally explains in plain english things like keyframes, interlacing for web, exactly how the new CODEC works.
Ultimately, every new thing this book taught me was set in cement by the logical explanation of the why.
This is a must
Very good book that covers all from the beginig to the deploying to better deploy your video content. I am pleased to have gotten this book
 Gives you just what you need to know (and perhaps a bit more)
As promised, this book offers a lot of food of thought, and provides an excellent framework for creating a professional-quality online video player.
The authors offer a strong argument against using the stock FLVPlayback components of CS3, and if you adopt their methodology (even if you skip Chapter 5 at first), you'll get plenty out of this book. You're sure to find some useful information, even if you don't drink all the design-pattern Kool-Aid.
Cures Any Intimidation
This is a very excellent book. It cures any intimidation someone might have dealing with video in flash. The chapters were very easy to understand, and the samples were very fun to do. This book does really well at showing the potential and creativity of working with video in flash.
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