• Flash, Lies and Videotape: Broadcast Flash Techniques Pete Barr-Watson, Pixelfury

  I was planning on putting up notes on this session, but Pete is showing so much cool stuff that i forgot to take notes.

  Basically, he is building video (quicktime, tv, etc) using Flash. Realy cool stuff.

  Created Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:08:01 +0000

• Branden Hall Session 2 of 3 : Creating applications in Flash MX

  Components

  • Self encapsultated widgets
  • at the core, they are just movie clips
  • usually drag and drop (i.e scrollbar)
  • Full API

  UI Component Set 2 From Macromedia. Avaliable from Flash Exchange.

  Most components support handlers, which is the name of the function that you want to be called when an event happens. By default the function is on the same timeline as the components. You can set them via the API to use functions on any object.

  Created Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:58:01 +0000

• Posts from Flash Forward

  Just a quick reminder that I will be updating my weblog live from Flash Forward. You can view the posts in the FlashForward section.

  Remember that I am typing in the dark, and not spell / grammar checking, so there will be a lot of typos.

  • Branden Hall : Session 1 of 3
  • Branden Hall : Session 2 of 3
  • Branden Hall : Session 3 of 3
  • Video with Flash MX : A Users Guide : Session 1 of 3
  • Video with Flash MX : A users Guide : Session 2 of 3

  Created Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:52:01 +0000

• Photos from Flash Forward

  EricD has posted some pictures from Flash Forward.
  You can view them here.

  Created Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:48:01 +0000

• What to do if you get lost in NYC at FlashForward?

  Just saw this on were-here.com, created by sykes. This should come in handy this week.

  

  Created Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:40:01 +0000

• Creating Applications in Flash : Ask the Experts Session : Chrissey Rey

  Dropped by this session really quickly. Lots of questions about replacements for generator (Flash Remoting, Flash Communication server for runtime dynamic content, JGenerator for offline batched content).

  Created Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:39:01 +0000

• Branden Hall Session 1 of 3.

  The first day of Flash Forward involves a number of half day sessions / classes. I am sitting in Branden Hall’s first session of three. The first session is on Object Oriented Programming in Flash (something that Branden and Sam Wan just wrote a book on).

  Branden is discussing some of the basics of Object oriented programming in Flash, including objects vs instances, and how to create custom classes.
  Importance of encapsulation

  Created Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:19:01 +0000

• Video with Flash MX : A Users Guide : Session 2 of 3

  Short QA session.
  They are showing comparisons of the same video in different players (austin powers trailer):

  • Real Player 225k low badwidth. pretty good quality. (watch scene changes and transitions.) streaming.
  • Windows Media Player : pretty good quality. streaming.
  • Quicktime : good quality. alittle choppy, good encoding.
  • Flash MX : Good quality. low badwidth. comparable to other formats.

In higher end encoding, the differences between the players become more obvious, with dedicate video players having better quality.
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