Interactivity - Flash or Video

I came across this website (below) recently and found the
concept of an animated voiced flash file quite interesting.
http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/
I would like to incorporate this concept into my website but
I was wondering to make it more realistic is it possible to use
video footage from a digital video camera of a person mimicking the
movements of the animated flash file.
So basically I would like to incorporate the same functions
onto a real person, so if you move the mouse cursor to the right of
the person they move the eye and tilt there head to the cusor
position, up down left right etc etc.
Is this possible in Flash? or some other app?
Would love to know how to implement this and what type of
software, programming requirement would possibly be needed.
thanks

Ramsaran,
If you directly access a video file though URL iview then the file may open in a seperate window.
You implement your requirement on this way too,
Upload wmv file into portal. Create a hmtl which will embed the video file. Please your html accessible by portal. create an URL iview to access the html page.
Ram

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Hello,
Wonder if anyone could help me?
I am creating an interactive Flash video with hotspots.
I have my video in Flash and I have created the hotspots at
different points in the video. What I want to achieve is when the
user is watching the video and they click correctly, some text
appears and adds an icon to a score board on the screen they see.
There are a total of 10 correct areas where they need to
click on the video, so the maxium they can achieve is 10.
Is they anyway I can achieve this and possibly how?
Thank you very much... I am very confused where to start.
Kind regards,
Paul

Create some invisible buttons to place on top of the video.
Then embed cue points in the video to trigger the buttons to appear
and disappear when appropriate.
2¢

Is this interactive flash movie possible in Adobe Edge?

Hi,
I´ve done this interactive flash applikation:
http://bit.ly/Uy6GEF
Is it possible to create this exactly the same in adobe edge? If you click on a hotspot, then a 3d-video (this video is already done in a 3d-animation-software) with a transparent background appears over the car-layer and on click to "back" it softly disapears.
(For this online version, I´ve just put a compressed video into "Gasoline & Diesel system". Normally, every hotspot has a different video.
So, are those interactions possible in Edge?
Best regards,
Maw

Everything except for the alpha transparency video is easily doable in Edge.
Rather then trying to shoehorn html5 video with an alpha transparency into Edge (not sure if this is doable), you could potentially use a png sequence or spriteSheet to play back those animations. Though the file size will be very large, and Edge does not have native implementation for png sequences or spriteSheet playback. yet.
John Dunning built a plugin for Fireworks to export a spritesheet as an Edge symbol:
http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/EdgeAnimate

Interactive Flash on a DVD?

I have a SD DVD with 3 Videos and I want to also put 1 interactive Flash video on this same DVD. Is this possible?

You can certainly do it by adding a microsite, as you describe. The bigger issue is getting it to autorun when you click a link in the menu of the DVD. Currently there is no reliable way to get such links working effectively on both macs and PCs, and as you have already pointed out, you can't play enhanced content on the set top player anyway.
On the Mac side of things, the technology to get interactive links is called DVD@ccess. This works, to a fashion, on a Mac. It \sometimes works on \some PCs \if you persuade the user of the PC to install the DVD@ccess software and \if their system recognises it and allows it to work. Many don't.
In essence, the viewer would see the link on a menu, click the button and be taken to another menu (@ccess links can only be embedded in the menu - i.e work when the menu is played, not when a button is clicked). When the new menu plays, the web browser will launch over the top of the DVD player app. Therefore, in the background you could 'time out' the menu and go back to the first one almost immediately. The user would never see that happen, because the web page was in front, starting up and distracting their attention.
Since DVD@ccess is so unreliable the only way to do this would be to give the viewers the instructions on how to find the content - possibly as text on a menu - and rely on them navigating to the folder you have created and double-clicking the index.htm file (or whatever) to get it running.
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I have a HP Pavillion all-in-one with AMD processor running Windows 8.1 64 bit. Flash Player 16.0.0.235 with all current drivers. I'm consistantly experiencing a green sceen on all Flash Player videos but I have sound.

I have a HP Pavillion all-in-one with AMD processor running Windows 8.1 64 bit. Flash Player 16.0.0.235 with all current drivers. I'm consistantly experiencing a green sceen on all Flash Player videos but I have sound.

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How to watch flash based videos without adobe flash installed using Safari

How do I watch flash based videos without adobe flash installed using Safari?

Once you have Chrome installed, activate the Develop menu in Safari (go to Safari Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop Menu). You then will see under the Develop menu the Open Page With option and Chrome will be listed there.
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FireFox with adobe flash using a retina macbook pro under win 8.1 64 bit is lagging . when you move the mouse above any flash game / video

Hi
I asked this question again and i reported this bug , i am a computer engineer and i tested it with few macbook pro retina laptops , when u use win 8.1 64 bit or 32 bit and install adobe flash under firefox try to play any game in facebook , view video on youtube or use any FLASH video and move the mouse above the screen of the flash game / video / etc , the screen will lag alot .
under chrome this problem doesnt exist but the screen is blurry in chrome when using retina screen thats why firefox is better , but the problem is annoying .
i tried to disable hardware acceleration as you suggested still the same problem

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Advice on Exporting Flash To Video

Greetings everyone. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I promised a
client that I would be able to export the flash piece I did for
them into a Quicktime Movie. I am using Flash 8, and using many
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I figured I'd export it as a PNG sequence, import the sequence into
Premiere and life would be grand.
HOWEVER, I'm also using Actionscript to create some particle
effects (fairy dust if you must know). And I just realized to my
horror that PNG Sequences, actually NOTHING, exports actionscripted
events. AAAGH!
So I wanted the forums opinions on the following options:
1. Does Flash CS3's export tools take Blending Modes,
Filters, and Actionscripted events into consideration? I'll upgrade
if I have to.
2. Is there a third party tool that can save images from a
published .SWF file? Like a screen capture tool?
3. Is there any way to pause a .SWF and advance it frame by
frame? I'm desperate enough to print screen every frame if I have
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flashants.com is where you can get the SWF2Video tool which
is also talked about in the artile I
wrote - what do you mean you couldn't see it?
The Quicktime Exporter is designed to export dynamic content
- so yes, in theory it will do what you
want - but beware - it is not perfect - in fact, if you have
a high frame rate (who doesn't) and a
lot of animation - forget about it. Here's my standard
copy/paste response to this feature:
Turn off audio. The audio in a Flash movie may also slow the
performance
possibly causing dropped frames. Turn off the audio, if you
have many
dropped frames in the first attempt. Other video editing
tools can be used
to add the audio to the video after export.
Reduce frame rate. If the movie dimension is a full size
NTSC video, 740 x
480, and frame rate is 30 fps, you are more likely to have
dropped frames.
Reduce the fps of Flash movie increase the chance of
grabbing all the
frames. Other video editing tools can be used to adjust the
frame rate of
the video after export.
Optimize your animation. Try to avoid a lot of screen
motion. The greater
the area of change on the screen, the more likely slowdown
will occur. Also,
if possible, restrict your use of transparency and alpha
channels as they
too can cause poor performance.
Use ActionScript 3. Animation created by ActionScript 2 and
ActionScript 3
are different in play back performance. Convert the
ActionScript in your
animation to ActionScript 3 for optimized performance.
Dimension settings in 2 places. The dimension settings in
Export Settings
dialog sets the dimension of the SWF movie to be captured.
The Size settings
in QuickTime Settings dialog sets the dimension of the
exported MOV files.
If the SWF size is smaller than the exported MOV size, the
picture quality
will be degraded; if it is larger than the exported MOV
file, you may have
better picture quality. For best quality (and often
performance) these
settings should match.
Most likely - you will experience dropped frames at best.
This feature is not perfect. SWF3Video
does an amazing job of converting SWF movies to AVI - it has
saved my *ss on many many many projects.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
Crowandazi wrote:
> Read the Flash To Video article, but didn't see the
SWF2Video section. Will
> take a look. Gracias! Just as an FYI for my decision to
upgrade, however, do
> you know about those features showing up in CS3's
export?
>
> Thanks!
>

How to embed interactive flash in PDF

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If this post answers your question or helps, please mark it as such.
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Audio from Flash CS3 Video overlapping

audio from Flash CS3 Video overlapping
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How do I stop flv playback when user clicks a navigation
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1061: Call to a possibly undefined method stop through a
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1137: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected no more than 0.
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Flash 8 video in Flash 7

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Flash 8 (Studio 8) which includes the video production for flash.
Stil waiting for the software to arrive. In the maentime for
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Adding volume switch to Flash 8 video and stopping it play before it plays

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Flash 8 video controls + other madness

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The class I've written works great with flash 7 video, but
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Does anyone have ANY clue what this could be?

It’s hard to see what it is doing from the snippet of
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