Description:

This hands-on two day workshop covers everything you need to know about digital video for the Adobe Flash platform, starting with key pre-production considerations such as camera quality, lighting, audio, green screen shooting and format choices. We move on to the basic tools for capturing and encoding video, then move on to advanced encoding strategies that factor multiple bit rates, codec decisions and options (including the new AVC/H.264 codec support in Flash Player 9 r115), and SMIL. Then we bring the video into the Flash authoring tool and discuss custom code players and the FLVPlayback component. Finally we look at deployment issues including progressive web video and real-time streaming with Flash Media Server.

You can choose to follow along with the workshop material and demonstrations on your own laptop, provided that you have the following applications installed: Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 or higher, Adobe After Effects CS3, Sorenson Squeeze 5, and On2 Flix Pro 8.5. Other applications may be demonstrated. All attendees receive a time-limited trial account at Influxis for Flash Media Server hosting, including Flash Video streaming. Each attendee receives a copy of Robert's Flash Video book, which includes a dual-layer DVD-ROM with over 7GB of video-related files.

As an attendee of this workshop, you will receive a copy of one of Robert's books, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques.
You can preview the book at these two links below:

http://www.flashsupport.com/buy/fvst (redirect to Amazon.com)

Chapter 12, "Delivering a Reliable Video Experience"
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_cs3_video_techniques_ch...