Best way to interface flash AS3 with CF

Does anyone know of any good examples of how to interface
Flash AS3 with Coldfusion?
Thanks!!!
Carlos

Unfortunately the camera does something with flash media, which could confuse the question. Do you mean that you want to use this camera for creating Adobe Flash Video content? If that's the case I would argue to use its 720p/24p mode, that would give you 24 fps 1280x720 movies that ought to work nicely in Flash, and could scale to smaller 16:9 sizes better than say a 1080i video would. You could use 720p/30p too if you want it a little smoother.
If you have Studio 8 installed on the machine you're using, you can export straight from FCP to FLV, by choosing the Export to FLV option in the Export using QuickTime Conversion dialog.

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