New Flash Video book and online Flash Video training released!
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 weren’t released when the last edition went to print:
- AVC/H.264 encoding tips, including coverage of CABAC, B-frames, and Main/High profiles
- Discussion of my new Web Video Bitrate Starter application, which helps you get started with the right video and audio bitrate for your preferred video dimensions, frame rate, video codec, and audio codec.
- Updates to chapters covering real-time streaming (via RTMP) and Flash Media Server (FMS) 3.5 dynamic streaming
I also created a video encoding tutorial covering Flash-compatible output for DesignProVideo.com. If you’d rather learn by watching step-by-step how to create high quality video, or you want to augment the coverage of my book with more hands-on examples, then you’ll like this video training. But don’t take my word on it–just read this review on the forums at DesignProVideo.
Gotta get back to a client job–it’s a pretty sweet AIR app. More details when the product has been launched this summer.
May 11th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Hi Robert Reinhardt,
I would like to buy your books, because I want to learn, among other things, how to create apps to deliver audio/video via web. I have many ideas, but specially I want to learn how to create a virtual class room using Flash, Flex and some server side technology, VoIP and so on…
Could you point me books or other resources that teaches me how to do it? (feel free to e-mail me: pcassiano @ gmail. com)
Thanks!
May 14th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Please,
After reply me via e-mail, delete these comments
I’m waiting for your reply!
Thanks!
August 26th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Hi Robert,
I work for a company that deals with interactive touch kiosks, and we have recently developed an AIR kiosk that plays back all forms of media including video (FLV/F4V). I am curious however as to the performance issue that we are seeing playing back video in portrait mode. Could you please email me in regards to this issue? We are currently looking at buying your CS4 book, and also wonder if this could greatly improve our playback.
Kind Regards
Dusan Ivanovic
January 20th, 2010 at 7:56 am
Hi Robert,
I have a subscription to Safari Books Online, and have been reading and working through you book on the site. Unfortunately however, I have no access to the files on the accompanying DVD via the Safari site. I went to the links supplied by Safari to where the files are supposedly available for download, but they don’t exist there. I’ve been combing the web desperately trying to find a place to download the files so I can do all the exercises in the book, but have had no luck. I’m really frustrated because these files are required in order to complete some of the tutorials. Can you please provide a way to access them or point me in the direction of where I could download these files? I’m sure other Safari users reading your book have encountered this same frustration, and would be interested in a way to access these files as well.
Thanks,
Alicia
January 20th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Alicia, thank you for bringing this to my attention. Safari Books Online is responsible for putting my material online, and that should include a downloadable version of the DVD-ROM. It is nearly 7GB of data, though, and they probably don’t want to host it. I can put the core source files on my site, but I can’t publicly post the download locations because anyone, subscriber/purchaser or not, could download the source files. E-mail me directly so that I can send you the download links.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 am
Chapter 7 - “Making a Connection” ActionScript 3.0-real-time streaming video - there’s no code following:
// Connect to the FMS application or CDN
Is this supposed to be a line that connects to your rtmp streaming server? I’m using Amazon Cloudfront, and trying to stream an mp4, so I have:
conn.connect(”rtmp://somxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st”);
Then following the comment:
//Play the FLV file
you have:
stream. play(” flight_of_apollo_11_SQZ_VP6_512K_
➥CBR_Cues”);
Is this a file that’s being hosted on an rtmp streaming server?
Also, if it’s an mp4 file, would you need to add the .mp4 extension in the stream.play address?
additionally, If it’s an mp4 file would you need to conn.connect(”rtmp://somxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/mp4″);
Thanks!
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Greg, thanks for the post. The book’s sample URL should be in the print version of the book–all of the FLV and H.264/MP4 files used in the book are hosted on Influxis (www.influxis.com). If you want to upload a video file from the book’s DVD-ROM to your Cloudfront account, you can do that and use your CloudFront URL instead. H.264/MP4 files require mp4: in front of the filename, such as:
stream.play(”mp4:name_of_h.264_mp4.ext”); // include the extension
HTH.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:13 am
thanks for the help.
so, in the printed version the code in chapter 7 ActionScript 3.0-real-time streaming video following // Connect to the FMS application or CDN is something like conn.connect(”rtmp://somxxxxxx.cloudfrontnet/cfx/st/mp4″);
but the url is different and points to influxis.com’s rtmp server, so it’s something like:
conn.connect(”rtmp://stream.influxis.com/cfx/st”);
and the stream.play would be:
stream.play(”mp4:/path/to/video.mp4″);
or stream.play(”path/to/mp4:video.mp4″);
Thanks