Archive for the ‘Flash Video’ Category

FLV Cuepoint editing… Captionate and Rich FLV

AIR (Formerly Apollo), Flash Video | Posted by David Jumeau
Dec 02 2008

I do a lot of cue point editing for flv formats at work. I usually use Captionate which inserts cuepoint data into the flv directly instead of creating it while converting a video file into flv. (e.g. Adobe Media encoder, or Sorenson Squeeze)

Recently, my collegue Anthony, found a new flv cuepoint management software called Richflv. It’s free as well as long as you have the AIR runtime installed. Other features:

  • flv editing (cutting, trimming)
  • Export to swf

I’ve observed some comments related to memory issues, and the maximum file capacity. I’ll give it a try and see how it works.

DJ

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Adobe announces update to the Flash Player.

Adobe Products, Flash Video | Posted by djumeau
Aug 22 2007

Adobe announces an update on the Flash player 9 which includes H.294 encoding (the same kind of encoding for HD-DVD, and Blu-ray) and DirectX support. It’s generating a big buzz around the Adobe community.

For info, click here.

DJ

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Microsoft Silverlight vs Adobe Flash Platform

AS3, Flash Platform, Flash Video, Silverlight | Posted by djumeau
May 04 2007

Well this is the buzz since the mix07 conference in Las Vegas. A lot of people are speculating that this is the Flash killer. Microsoft is agressively getting into the RIA app market. People who know .Net, Python, Ruby, and C# will be able to use it to create RIA’s in crossbrowser (including Firefox, surprise surprise) and yes, Silverlight will run for macs as well. The player is 4 MB to download and it is fast. They are also pushing for a piece of the video market.
All it depends on is developer response. I believe there are a lot more developers of these languages (AJAX, .Net, Python, Ruby, and C#) than Actionscript developers. Right now, I am wondering about AS3. Flash CS3 has just been released, and it seems like we are almost starting on square one in Flash development. On the other hand, Adobe has two cards on the deck that I see:

  1. The integration of all CS3 products is great for design – programming. We know in the past, most of us were working with Photoshop, and Illustrator before importing our work into Flash. No more with CS3. People who want to work with Silverlight has to work with Expression. Another pain in the butt. I think Adobe just got this in the nick of time.
  2. Open source development for Flex 3. This is a boon for developers. Free development versus paying money for Expression and other language development languages such as Visual Studio 2007.

So the delimma goes, do I continue on Flash / Flex development or go into learning these technologies? It seems that every four-five years, I have to get to learn a new technology. It’s been five years already that I have been developing for Flash. Is it time to move on? Ah, agony of agonies of being a computer programmer!
Here is the link: http://www.silverlight.net

DJ

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Flash Lite 3: Video coming to a cellphone near you!

Adobe Products, Flash Lite 2.0, Flash Lite 3.0, Flash Platform, Flash Video | Posted by djumeau
Feb 13 2007

Yup, now Flash video will start penetrating the cell phone market. See the article here

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Flash Media encoder beta at Adobe labs

Adobe Products, Flash Video | Posted by djumeau
Feb 07 2007

A new Flash media encoder? Hmmm… Look like a nice time to try it out. I have been reluctant to get the upgrade for Sorenson squeeze since I have not found a good reason to upgrade it with exception to obtain the On2 vp6 plug-in.

Check it out at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/fme/

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