2. Working with Video

Web sites are increasingly turning to Flash to deliver online video. YouTube, news sites like the New York Times, and movie previews use Flash to play video for its image quality, compression, and wide compatibility and penetration. This chapter explores the exciting possibilities of integrating video in your Flash project. Flash makes importing video easy with the Video Import wizard, which takes you step by step through the process and gives you options for editing, cropping, resizing, and setting levels of compression.

There are two main ways to use video in Flash. One way is to embed video directly within your Flash movie, and the other is to keep video separate and use progressive download to play it through Flash. ...

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