http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert Musings on life, technology, and Adobe Flash Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unless you follow me on twitter (@flashfreaker), you're not privy to my growing concern with the perception of the Adobe Flash runtime by many standards-based members of the web community. With yet another move by Apple to be the guardians of the "open web" with its announcement of the iPad ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=180 Last week at Adobe MAX during my session, I announced the soft launch of videoRx.com, my own personal project for the last year. It’s an online video encoding and (in the future) deployment solution—I’m teaming up with Influxis to enable near-seamless deployment of high quality multi bitrate video streams. ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=178 If you missed my session at Flashbelt or want to watch it online, check out the Acrobat Connect recording here: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p60867419/ Many thanks to Dave Schroeder for the sixth Flashbelt! I'm honored to be part of the tradition.Share This http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=177 This year at the Flashbelt conference, I'm doing a brand new workshop specifically geared to the economic climate that is currently surrounding the multimedia and online industry. Here it is: Save Yourself Now: What Your Boss Won't Tell You In this full-day workshop, Robert Reinhardt teaches you how to build up your ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=176 The update to my original Adobe Press book on video and Flash is finally available in bookstores! The new edition has a different title too: Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques. I've updated this book to cover the Flash CS4 IDE, as well as adding important updates that ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=175 Definitely was not the worst of times in Amsterdam last week, where I presented my Personal Brand Building session to an audience nestled in a room at the Ariana Room of the Dylan Hotel, with sweet fireplaces and funky wall textures. My flight left Portland (PDX) at 4:00pm Saturday afternoon, ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=173 While I've helped other people create HTML-based emails, I haven't had to do it for myself. After a lot of tests on various email clients, I finally released my first newsletter to about 6500 e-mail addresses, collected from my registration database at FlashSupport.com, old mailing lists I use to run, ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=172 You can view my session, Encoding Video for the Highest Quality and Performance, on the Adobe Groups web site at: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/d3a78258e3 In this presentation, I talk about the importance of various video and audio encoding settings found across video encoders, especially for AVC/H.264 video. You need to login to Adobe Groups with your ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=171 Snow and I recorded over _6 hours_ of Flash CS4 training for the designprovideo.com site! Check the main page for the series here: http://www.designprovideo.com/tutorial/flashcs4101 There are free downloads available as well. The NED Player that the video series uses is pretty nice too. Check it out! Here's the table of contents: Chapter 1: ... http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=170 Michael Hurwicz wrote a well-balanced review of my Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques book on CreativeCOW.net. Check it out! http://chartjunk.karmanaut.com/taxplans/ Oops, I copied and pasted the wrong URL! That's the difference between Obama and McCain's tax plans. I meant this link: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/flash_cs3.php Share This http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=168