Rich Media StudioLab: Video and Sound in Flash (Paperback)

With its low bandwidth and tiny file sizes, it is often wrongly assumed that sound and video can never achieve a really high level of sophistication in Flash animations. With competitive motion graphics techniques rapidly evolving, there is a constantly growing demand for the next stage in sophisticated design – video and sound.

This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing you at the extreme edge of creative web design. The application of such tools as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge and Wildform test the boundaries of Flash and suggest ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the realms of Shockwave. Showing you how to break your site down and incorporate video and sound, the techniques covered in this book capitalise on the capabilities of Flash whilst tackling its limitations head-on. It will then look at how to take web video and sound a step further with Shockwave presentations.

Who is this book for?

• All Flash designers who appreciate the need to use sound and video in order to stay ahead in the motion web graphics sector.
• Readers of other friends of ED Flash Studio titles who want to take the next step towards becoming New Masters.

Summary of Contents

• 1 Revolution and Evolution:the Rich Media landscape
• 2 Thinking through your Rich Media project
• 3 After Effects
• 4 Badcop:Low Bandwidth, High Impact
• 5 QuickTime and Animation
• 6 Loading Video into Flash
• 7 Using Flix
• 8 Flash Turbine
• 9 Creating a Flash Video Jukebox
• 10 Flash,Video,and HTML
• 11 A QuickTime Flash Player
• 12 RealPlayer and Flash
• 13 Creating Sound
• 14 Optimizing Sound
• 15 Using Sound Dynamically in Flash
• 16 Commercial Flash Video Content
• A Digital Sound Theory
• B MIDI
• C The Cubase Interface