Adobe Flash CS3 Professional 9.0.2 Update
This update includes a new Video Playback component supporting H.264, support for Flash Lite 3 Update for Flash CS3 Professional, and all Debug and Release versions of this new Adobe Flash Player. For users of Flash CS3 Professional, this update will also be available via Adobe Update Manager in Flash CS3 Professional.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional 9.0.2 Update
3DEnvironment v1.0.4 (Flash component)
 3DEnvironment v1.0.4 (Flash component) The 3DEnvironment is a Flash component that allows you to build 3D interactive interfaces and environments in Flash. Built-in depth and perspective effects create the illusion of three dimensions. Customizable controls and full keyboard and mouse interactivity enable movement and rotation of the environment. Use simple graphic or movie clip symbols as well as external objects and animated movie clips. Requires no 3D modeling. http://rs113.rapidshare.com/files/99756476/3DEnvironment.1.0.4.rar | |
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Exploring Flash Player support for high-definition H.264 video and AAC audio
Exploring Flash Player support for high-definition H.264 video and AAC audio
David Hassoun
The next major step in the video revolution is here. Flash Player 9 Update is taking a step into the high-definition (HD) video realm in a major way by adding MPEG-4 video to its already impressive ranks of video support. MPEG-4 utilizes crisp, powerful H.264 encoding and is an industry standard for video, which includes high-definition (HD) delivery. It is also the standard for HD content online and on devices such as your home television.
To pair with the excellent visual power of H.264 encoded video, Flash Player 9 Update also supports HE-AAC audio, which is the higher quality successor to MP3. Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a high-efficiency (HE) and high-fidelity (HiFi), low-bandwidth audio codec that can be used with or without video.
These codecs allow users to stream high-quality video at low bit rates. In addition, this update to Flash Player makes it possible to leverage tools that are standard across the industry, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Soundbooth, and Adobe Audition—and even such non-Adobe technology as Apple Final Cut Pro—to create and deliver compelling video content. Future updates are even being planned for Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) to enhance end-to-end H.264 content development and distribution. The future is looking very bright indeed.
The new video and audio capabilities are available in Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 (version 9,0,115,0) and will be included in the upcoming release of Adobe AIR. Both platforms will have the ability to stream from the next generation of Flash Media Server, due to release early next year. The new Adobe Media Player, a powerful new AIR application, will also support H.264, HE-AAC, and encrypted video content using the new Flash Media Rights Management Server from Adobe.
So does this new Flash Player support for MPEG-4 and H.264 mean that it will replace the On2 VP6 codec? Absolutely not. The addition of H.264 gives developers greater choice to select the technology that best meets their needs. The current implementation of H.264 does have some limitations, such as lack of support for alpha channel and the inability to embed video into a SWF file. On2 VP6 is a solid, high-quality choice for Flash-based video projects. The On2 VP6 codec is also clear of any licensing issues that may arise with MPEG-LA. (Licensing information can be found on the MPEG LA and Via Licensing sites.) The On2 VP6 codec will remain a consistent and viable option for media delivery—see the On2 VP6 technology white paper (PDF, 140K) for more information. The added support for H.264 simply means that there are now more options and wider spread compatibility for high quality and HD video.
This article takes a look at the new codecs and file types supported in Flash Player "Moviestar." In the article I'll show you how to import both H.264 video and AAC audio into Flash, examine how to use hardware acceleration with the new Flash Player Update, and provide instructions on how to import the metadata included with MPEG-4 files.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Flash CS3 Professional
Note: For users of Flash CS3 Professional, an update including all debug and release versions of Flash Player 9 Update 3—and a new video playback component supporting H.264—is now available via Adobe Update Manager or directly from the Flash Support Center.
Flash Player 9 Update 3 (9,0,115,0) or later
Sample files:
- h264_as3_samples.zip (ZIP, 48.3 MB)
- h264_as2_samples.zip (ZIP, 48.4 MB)
Note: The archive file h264_as3_samples.zip contains sample files for creating an H.264 video player and MP4 player in Adobe Flash using ActionScript 3.0. There are both video and audio sample files, as well as FLA files for each individual walkthrough in the article. The archive file h264_as2_samples.zip provides sample ActionScript 2.0 files as an alternative to the ActionScript 3.0 walkthroughs in the article.
Lynda.com-ActionScript 3.0: Working with XML
http://rapidshare.com/files/98920095/ActionScript.3.0.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/98920097/ActionScript.3.0.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/98920139/ActionScript.3.0.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/98920141/ActionScript.3.0.part4.rar
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Video Workshop DVD
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Video Workshop DVD | flv | 3.64 Gb
Direct from the horses mouth,this is the tutorial DVD came bundled with Adobe creative suite 3 premium package.Its consists a pelthora of video training from industry's expert trainer.All the 19 products are well explained to meet the requirements of all level of people.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
ActionScript 3.0 Bible
ActionScript 3.0 Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
ISBN: 0470135603
Paperback: 735 pages
Data: Oct 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Packed with hands-on instruction and step by step tutorials, the ActionScript 3 Bible is everything you need to harness the power of this amazing language. ActionScript experts Roger Braunstein and Mims Wright guide you through the in’s and out’s of building Rich Internet Applications with ActionScript 3. Coverage includes:
* The ActionScript 3 language—variables, datatypes, operators and expressions, functions, and more
* Object-Oriented aspects of ActionScript 3
* Working with XML
* Dealing with events
* Handling error events and making your applications fault tolerant
* Debugging ActionScript applications
* Loading external data
* Working with audio, video and graphics
* Working in binary
* Developing for Apollo
* Application deployment
* And more…
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Adobe AIR Native Window Throw Example
Here is another example that I built while on the On AIR Bus Tour. This example was built using Flash CS3 and requires Grant Skinner’s AIRPanel extension in order to compile the application. This example consists of a video player that you can toss around your desktop. The native window animation performance is excellent again in this example.
There is a hard-coded value to move the window above the Windows Vista taskbar. This value may need to be adjusted for people on the Mac. I have also embedded the FLV file in order to make distribution easier. Click on the image below to get the AIR file and the source FLA.
DiggTop
Grant Skinner established himself as a Flash guru many years ago, and his design firm is well on its way to doing the same as an Adobe AIR application developer, as evidenced by their creation of DiggTop. This application demonstrates many advantages to the Adobe AIR runtime, including how well Adobe AIR applications can interface with web APIs such as the Digg API to create highly customized user interfaces.
Some of the features that really captured my attention include:
- A branded user interface that has the look and feel of the Digg website
- An integrated, customized video player (see Figure 5)
- Automatic slideshow creation by scanning image links within the source article (see Figure 6)
- A self-updating mechanism that will download automatically a new version of this application
- An advanced settings dialog box, which allows for intuitive filtering of articles and videos as well as control over notifications (see Figure 7)
Figure 5. DiggTop includes support for videos posted to Digg using the built-in video player.
Figure 6. In addition to video, DiggTop extracts images from articles and creates dynamically generated slideshows.
Figure 7. Customize your Digg feeds to your heart's content and even create your own keyword filters.
DiggTop packs an incredible amount of functionality into a small amount of visual real estate (roughly 515 pixels wide by 300 pixels high). DiggTop looks like a finished product, but I suspect that Grant Skinner is going to push the limits even further with the new drag-and-drop support in Adobe AIR beta.
SearchCoders/Dashboard
The Flex developer community is pushing new ground every day. One way to keep up with the community is to install the SearchCoders/Dashboard, which makes extensive use of Adobe AIR capabilities. This Flex based application has many brilliant, community-focused features including:
- Integrated support for threaded discussion forums, chat rooms, job boards, RSS feeds, and notes
- Transparent, dynamic windows with drop shadows
- Customized window chrome
- A very advanced search system
- Extended functionality through a user login system
The search functionality is particularly useful for finding help about a particular conversation you might be interested in. For example, you can search for all posts from a particular person or a domain such as adobe.com. This is a terrific example of the type of a desktop application that can be targeted at a certain community and would have been prohibitively expensive to build with traditional desktop application building environments.
One other unique aspect to this application is that it includes a tasteful advertising component built into the user interface (see Figure 8). As Adobe AIR developers continue to build more advanced applications, it’ll be interesting to see how they support business models such as subscriptions and advertising.
Figure 8. The SearchCoder/Dashboard AIR application includes a tasteful advertising component.
Adobe AIR Native Window Animation Example
This is the first of many examples that I will be posting here over the next couple of days which were built while riding on the On AIR Bus Tour. This example was built using Flash CS3 and requires Grant Skinner’s AIRPanel extension in order to compile the application. The example creates a new native window which animates around the main window in a carousel motion. Note the excellent performance of animating native windows in AIR.
You will notice that the code is setup to accept additional native windows so that you can create a carousel of multiple native windows. The only problem is that z-indexing of native windows is not supported in the beta 1 of AIR. It will be rolled out soon though. Click on the image below to get the AIR file and the source FLA.
Adobe AIR SpitEmOut Video Example
This is another cool example I made during my time on the On AIR Bus Tour. This example was built using Flash CS3 and requires Grant Skinner’s AIRPanel extension in order to compile the application. It also uses the Tweener AS3 library to accomplish the animation so make sure to download that before trying to compile it. This example allows you to drop an FLV file onto the player to begin playing it back. You can then click on the camera icon to spit out a screen shot onto your desktop. Then you can right-click on the screenshot in order to save it as a PNG file.
The application is actually a full maximized, transparent application rather than a bunch of native windows. This is because it is impossible to rotate native windows. It also doesn’t resize the player when a video larger than 320×240 is dropped on. Click on the image below to get the AIR file and the source FLA.
Adobe AIR SpringyWindows Example
Here is a fun little example that I made tonight that applies spring physics to 4 native windows. This example was created using Flash CS3 and Grant Skinner’s AIR panel. The main application window spawns 3 new windows and then all of their positions are continuously updated using an EnterFrame event. Once launching the app, move the window with the blue background around the desktop to see the springy action.
You can download the AIR file as well as the source FLA file.
TwittAIR application updated
Since the beta version of Adobe AIR (Apollo) was recently released, I decided to update my Twitter application so that it runs in the new runtime. There may still be some issues due to the flaky Twitter API, but it is still a good example of using custom chrome. I have also uploaded the full source so that you can see how it was put together.
Flash + After Effects
Chris Jackson, \"Flash + After Effects\"
Focal Press | ISBN 0240810317 | February 14, 2008 | 304 Pages | PDF | 12.3MB
Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects robust toolset.
* Add motion graphics and visual effects to your Flash projects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time in executing animations
Combine these two powerhouse applications to expand your multimedia horizons. Flash + After Effects gives the experienced Flash designer a working understanding of the After Effects toolset with professional techniques that raise the design bar for Web, broadcast, or CD/DVD delivery.
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