Making your Flash teaching content as effective as possible

Hi All,
I just added a new blog post with some thoughts about how creators of flash tutorials, articles, videos, etc. could make their content more usable and discoverable for Flash learners.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jayarmstrong/
I'm hoping to start a conversation and maybe get folks to voluntarily adopt some conventions. I hope you'll take a look.
-J

Do do you need compatibility with previous versions of the Flash plug-in? If so, exporting FLV with the "web small" is a good starting point.You could get a bit better by using 2 pass encoding, but in order to do that, you'd have to render an intermediate Quicktime or AVI file and launch Adobe Media Encoder in standalone mode (it's in the applications folder).
If you can get your viewers to use the Flash 10 plug-in (9.0 r115 and higher, actually), you can use the H264 format (or F4V, same thing wrapped in a Flash video file). SInce it uses more modern/efficient encoding, you can get the same quality and reduce the bitrate, or better quality with the same bitrate. The "F4V - Web small" preset targets the same data rate as the FLV preset you've been using. You can lower the bitrate to from 0.4 Mbps to 0.35 and it should be fine.

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After Effects + Flash - Dynamic Content. How to integrate special effects.

Hello World of Adobe.
I am currently working on a project involving data driven dynamic content. This data is being incorporated into the video at runtime.
I have done these types of projects before, with success, and am looking to step up my game.
So the question:
How can I use effects such as - Blur, wiggle, distort, shatter etc. on dynamic content.
For instance:
John Doe puts his information into a text feild. That data is sent to flash environment, where it is "injected" into the video at the proper time and location. His name appears in fancy lettering surrounded by fancy environment factors. The name however, blurs in and out of focus.... maybe distorts a bit, then shatters.
An example:
These guys over at XMPie seem to have this figured out.
http://www.xmpie.com/PEVideo
"Starting with either an original After Effects movie or an existing template from an online library, the user can incorporate variable text, images, and other footage with exciting special effects like animate, wiggle, shatter, blur, warp, distort, and more"
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you!

Thank you for your feedback.
So essentially there would be a After Effects project template on a server waiting for certain input data. Then it would be rendered and .flv encoded and sent to the video player.
Do I have that right?
This could be a problem given the render time, as my client wants the video shown soon after user data in inputted. But may be a solution for a more rich experience, not generated at run-time.
Are there any plugins or specific scripts you can point me to?
Also, regarding flash, if I were to export cue point data for these custom feilds, does flash support any additional effects... such as blur, opacity etc. That can be placed within the .flv metadata?

Flash Alternative Content ~ Best Practice ~ Safari on iOS Devices ~ iPad iPhone iPod Touch

Hi Folks,
Is there a documented best practice for providing alternate content for Flash in Safari on iOS devices?
I am getting white space where my Flash animation would normally appear, and management is displeased. I need to display alternative content in this space. I'm hopeful that Adobe has published a best practice for how to accomplish this.
tyvm
Keith

Not sure about Adobe official stance but they have started using swfobject Flash detection to place Flash <objects> on the Web page. The problem I see with the Adobe implementation is that about the only alternate content they recommend is "Click here to download the latest version of Flash player".
That is about the lamest alternate content you could possibly imagine! Just because you recommend that your viewers download the new version.... doesn't mean they will... so they still go without REAL alternate content.
A MUCH BETTER use of swfobject is to actually provide alternate content! For your review::
If you think that Flash is somehow bad for SEO, it's time to dispell that MYTH!
If fact, in some circumstances I'll use Flash INSTEAD of just HTML because then I'll have better SEO than with just HTML alone.
http://www.worldbarefootcenter.com/
The link to World Barefoot Center in the above post is just one example. View the source code and you see a couple paragraphs of text along with regular HTML links.... but what displays is the Flash version of the image and Flash links.
The client provided the artwork for the page... and that's what they wanted to use a .jpg image. Well yes, that could be done in HTML but it would be virtually invisible to Google. So Instead I converted the image into a Flash .swf and used swfobject to display the Flash. swfobject allows you to create alternate content inside the <div> which also holds the Flash .swf, then when the page is loaded it detects if the browser has the Flash pluggin. If it does, it displays just the Flash content, if not, it displays the alternate content. Since almost everyone has the Flash pluggin, for most people the Flash version of the <div> will display.
The alternate content for that <div> can be any regular HTML text, images, media player, links, etc., anything that you would use if you were not using the Flash. Now the best part is that the alternate content can be "over the top" as far as optimizing for SEO, since it will not be seen by most viewers.
Here's another example of SEO with Flash.. again, the page is just a single image provided by the client:
http://www.ksowetsuits.com/
View the source code. The alt content is paragraph after paragraph of information about the site, including lists and links. If it was just the HTML, it might be kind of a boring Home page. But for SEO I can go "over the top" in promoting the site, since most viewers will never see that part... but it's all indexed by search engines. The end result is BETTER SEO using Flash than just HTML.
On another Web site, a Flash video is displayed, the alt content is the complete text narration of the video. Now how many people would take the time to read that if they could just watch the video instead?? again, better SEO with Flash than without. In fact in one case we had first page search result from that video narration within 4 hours of posting the page.
On still another site with a Flash video, the alt content is another video, but a .mov version, which will, in effect play Flash video on the iPhone (not possible you say??). Well since the iPhone does not have Flash pluggin, it simply displays the .mov version of the video, while everyione else sees the Flash version.
So anyway, if Flash is a part of your Web development, you should look into using swfobject and alternate content.
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
So it is and has been for a number of years now, very easy to provide alternate content for non Flash devices... and that includes text, images, and video.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Making a flash animation into link

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Thanks Urami
Nice and simple, thanks very much
Gaz
On 5/9/07 12:29 am, in article
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<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Garry Bradley wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Could someone tell me how to make a animation placed
into Dreamweaver
>> clickable? I just need a simple link to another page
but I can¹t find where
>> to link anything in. Is it a parameter that I need
to set up?
>
> You need to make that within flash movie.
> You could use big invisible button on top of your entire
content
> or simple apply onMouseDown event to the timeline which
will make
> the whole stage clickable, follow by getURL action.
>

Making Your Own Map Component in crystal xcelsius

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Making Your Own Map Component in crystal xcelsius
Although the Map components in Crystal Xcelsius are cool, your choice ofmaps is severely limited. This might leave you wondering how you can createyour own Map components in Crystal Xcelsius. Although there is no way totechnically make a Map component, you do have a workaround that you canuse to create interactivity based on your own maps.As an example, I created the dashboard in Figure 13-25 to report on popula-tion data for the five counties in Rhode Island. In this dashboard, movingyour mouse from county to county changes the data that displays.
Take a closer look at this dashboard to see that the map is nothing more thanan Image component that has a few Icon Selector components on top. Hereu2019show it works:1. Import an image of the map by adding an Image component onto yourdashboard and selecting the image using the Filename property, asshown in Figure 13-26.
2. Add Icon Selectors on each point in the map where you want interactivity.These icon selectors provide the hot spot areas on your map (seeFigure 13-27): that is, the areas that give you interactivity at run-time.
3. Expand the selectors to ensure that you optimize the hot spots on yourmap. (See Figure 13-28.)You can expand the Icon selectors by clicking on the bounding box han-dles and dragging them until the selector is the appropriate size andshape. Expanding the size of the selectors reduces the chance of hittingdead spots that donu2019t have interactivity at run-time.
At this point, the icon selectors can be given some functionality basedon some scenario, but thatu2019s not your focus here. The point is that afteryou configure the icon selectors with some functionality, you haveessentially added interactivity to your map.Time for smoke and mirrors.4. Make the icon selectors invisible so that only the map is showing bygoing to the Appearance tab and adjusting the Transparency propertyto 0, as shown in Figure 13-29.The final effect is a custom map that has interactivity.
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How to make adobe flash player content on websites run on safari browser of my ipad?

How to make adobe flash player content on websites run on safari browser of my ipad?do I have to install adobe flash player on my ipad ?

The flash add-on is not available for Safari on iOS. Never has been and in fact Adobe has ceased support for flash for mobile devices in general. Your options, depending on the specific sites:
See if the site or sites in question have their own apps availabel in teh app store
Look into some browsers such as Puffin adn iSwifter (there are others, I beleive). These browsers use a third server site to translate the flsh content into a form that the iPAd can use and restreams them to you. They may not work with all content.
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Hi all,
just a quick note for anyone that's interested...
SMS.ac are offering $100 for flash content from developers
new to their system.
I've spoken to them directly, and whilst their 'mobile pods'
aren't currently supported on mobiles, flash lite content IS
accepted as they are trying to get it working on mobile at the
moment so they want content for when they are ready.
if you are interested here is the email of who to speak to
for details...
(Cara Thomson) [email protected]
just thought some of you might be interested in this one
Paul
(this only applies if you add content before the 15th sept
and it's only for your first swf)

> Thank you! I read you blog occasionaly nice work!
Unfortuantely we dont
> have
> a FL 1.1 version. I don't believe FL 1.1 can handle
shared objects, which
> we
> are using to save retrieve data. We also had no idea
that nokia was
> releasing
> all their new phones with FL 1.1 nd not FL 2 until we
were almost finish
> with
> the production. Oh well, live and learn eh?
I have a 6682 winging it's way to me (AT LAST!). I'm not a
gamer, but I'm
certain I'll be downloading Ping. I enjoyrd playing the demo
on your web
site, and I look forward to seeing how the game plays on the
phone.
Steve
ACE - Adobe Community Expert, Authorware
My blog -
http://stevehoward.blogspot.com/
Authorware tips -
http://www.tomorrows-key.com

PDF to Flash page turning book effect

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Thanks in advance
Molly O'Moon

Thanks for your reply Dave
Just tried exporting an ID file using the swf export settings but it does seems to be just be limited to a page curl effect. Is good but not quite what I'm after. What I need is something that produces page turns, zoom in and out options, a 'go to locked pdf' version and a print option that prints from the pdf and not the swf. Not sure this can be done in the ID export menu? I might be missing something though - so really after recommendations on software that would let me to do this to a pdf but not sure which would be best choice out of the options that are out there.
Really appreciate your help.

Installing Flash Player content debugger in Windows 8

Operating system version: Windows 8, 64-bit
Web browser and version: Internet Explorer 10, version 10.0.9200.17183, update version 10.0.23 (KB3008923)
(I am also using Google Chrome version 40.0.2214.115 m (64-bit) for surfing the internet but I gave you the Internet Explorer version too because flex will use the explorer)
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Hello,
I am a flex developer, and I'm trying to install Apache Flex SDK 4.14.0 to work with on my computer along with eclipse (on windows 8).
I am following the instructions here: http://apache.mivzakim.net/flex/4.14.0/README , and under the "SOFTWARE" part, in number * 4, I am instructed to install the Adobe Flash Player Content Debugger.
I need the developer's debugger version of flash player, so I downloaded it from here: Adobe Flash Player - Downloads under "Download the Flash Player for Windows 8 x64 debugger".
What was received was a file named "Windows8-RT-KB2777262-x64.msu". When I clicked on it it did an update to windows that was supposed to get me the debug version of flash player.
Now when I go to this link: Flash Player Help and press on "Check Now" I see this:
YOUR SYSTEM INFORMATION
Your Flash Version
16.0.0
Your browser name
Internet Explorer
Your Operating System (OS)
Windows (Windows 8)
The flash player that was installed is NOT a debug version.
How do I install the debug version???

Hi Raya,
We are aware some issues with this help page and are working to resolve this so the correct information is reported. No ETA at this time as to when this will be fixed.
If you go to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Installed Updates do you see an entry for "Debugger for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 8" item listed? If so, this indicates that the debugger version is installed.
Maria

WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. Please update to continue

Can someone please help me. I have contacted Mac support 3 times and no one can help me and was recommended I go onto this forum.
I keep getting a pop up on my Mac, Macbook Pro, iPhone 5 and another MacBook we have in the house. It says "WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. Please update to continue."
I have done a bit of research and a few websites have said it is a Trojan. I have updated flash, reset safari and a heap of other things.
I am not tech savvy and just want this fixed. Someone help.
Thanks.

Hello Katie,
Apple frequently flags older versions of Flash Player as out-of-date in Safari, prompting users to upgrade to the latest, most secure version of Flash Player. The current version of Flash Player is 14.0.0.145. If you have a version prior to this, you'll need to upgrade in order to view Flash content. You can also visit this page, http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/, to verify the latest version of Flash Player for your OS platform.
Please note that Flash Player is not supported on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad). I suspect you'll continue to get similar messaging when visiting web sites on these devices that contain Flash content.
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Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 is not displaying embedded flash video contents on Facebook and some other sites

When I want to watch Flash videos embedded into Facebook pages videos are not displayed as they should be. Where the video should be seen there is only blank white space. Audio is running normally though. If I click FULL SCREEN video mode Flash video
is displayed normally. Only in small screen modes Flash videos are not displayed properly.
I have tried playing same videos using Google Chrome which is also using Flash ActiveX and everything is working fine there. Firefox which is using Flash Plugin also works fine. Only IE11 is not working as it should.
I have already reinstalled Flash Player and disabled all IE11 addons but problem is still there. I would say this is not Adobe Flash Player problem as in Chrome everything works fine.
Both the latest versions of Adobe Flash Player and updated IE11 are installed on my computer.
Can you, please, tell me what should I do to fix this problem.
A screenshot of embedded video:

If I click FULL SCREEN video mode Flash video is displayed normally. Only in small screen modes Flash videos are not displayed properly.
I would say this is not Adobe Flash Player problem as in Chrome everything works fine.
Comparing with Chrome may not be relevant but it sounds like something about the screen size is making the Flash program act differently in the two environments. Supposedly there is a debug version of Flash but I don't know if there is a debug version
for the Flash that is embedded in W8.
Is there a publicly accessible repro page someone could use to compare their symptoms with yours?
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Question - Importing Flash Project into After Effects, Possible?

Hi,
Is there a way to open a Flash file (FLA) in After Effect?, cause I saw you can open an AEP that was converted to XFL in Flash... I want to be able to open my Flash project in After Effects, same way I can import a PSD as a composition, is there a way to do that?

No, not possible. The principles are too different and it would require too many resources just to develop a conversion method. If you look closely, you will notice that even XFL is somewhat limited because of that. You can, however, still import SWF files once you are done with your work in Flash or render an image sequence from there.
Mylenium

How do customers download Flash-Lite content

Hi,
I'm looking at making Flash-Lite content (.swfs) available to
customers for things such as company brochures.
One thing i'm not sure of is how do customers get or download
the content onto their phone. Obviously tey could down load it to
their phone from a website or email.
My question is how do you set it up so a customer could say
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Hi ,
in addition, if you need to have billing system (like, for
games that are not freely distributed), it works just like with
J2ME content. The user writes a SMS to shortcode number, send that
to the billing system (server), and a SMS is returned (from
server), with a link to the content (.swf). Opening that link
downloads the .swf and starts it.
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Some flash web content doesn't show up on certain computers

Hi,
I've just put up a portfolio website- catmerrick.com- and a
lot of people are telling me that loaded video and slide shows
aren't showing up on their computers. It works fine on mine- any
thoughts as to why this might be, and what problems I should be
looking for? I would be extremely grateful for your help, and thank
you for your time...
Best,
Cat

Cat,
> a lot of people are telling me that loaded video and
slide
> shows aren't showing up on their computers. It works
fine
> on mine- any thoughts as to why this might be,
It may be that people who fail to see your content also fail
to have
Flash Player 9 (or any version of Flash Player) installed.
Using something
like Geoff Stearns' SWFObject, you can very easily display
default
content -- such as text or an image -- to let people know
they need to
install the plugin. Meanwhile, people have *have* the plugin
(and a high
enough version) will automatically see your Flash content.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/swfobject.html
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
David Stiller
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http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

A script in this movie is making Adobe Flash Player 10 to run slowly

How do I fix this? A script in this movie is making Adobe Flash Player 10 to run slowly, this is my problem when watching ABC tv shows. I've got a 13" Macbook Pro i7 with 8g of Ram. What do you all think is the problem

I get this message which I interpret as saying what it means, the streaming/scripting is to slow to operate that site.
In my case I was gaming(poker) I stopped for a meal and parked at the home page of the site (Skypoker) I went to rejoin a table and got the error. When I picked YES the screen went into some sort rapid fast loop, when I picked NO it dumped me out completely from the entire site and closed it. Now I have used this site with no problems at all, I contacted Sky support and he suggested delect temp files, history and reboot--did this no good. I decided to do a complete scan just in case, no better. I then decided to RESTORE by a couple of days, this worked but only the once, when I again left and tried to go back same problem.
What mystifies me is nothing altered or changed on the pc or on the site (they asked me to make sure I had version 10 Adobe Flash). So I decided do download again which I did but had no effect. Clearly i can't keep on doing restore but why the problem have suddenly arose is still baffeling. 1. why bother with such an error warning if there is no solution or choice of causes to go through to investigate and or fix. 2. If speed is an issue at this point why doesn't the error quantify the problem or Adobe give us a device to measure the errant data stream instead of leaving us high and dry with an effect, probable reason but no supporting data.
Sky appear stumped but obviously they are using Adobe on a commecial footing, I have asked them if they will seek support as so far there seems to be a don't care can't be bothered from Adobe, very disappointing

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