This tutorial will be certainly interesting for those of you, who like me a few years ago was spending hours searching Mr Google for articles or tutorials which would explain how to use videos FLV and cue points.
If you are not sure of the potentiality behind the use of cue points, I recommend you to read and follow carefully what I will show you next.
Using cue points, we can synchronise videos FLV and action scripting. To explain myself better, let us think of a video to which we would like to apply effects at a determinate time.
A classic example could be a video, which reproduce an action at each goal of a football match. At the precise moment of the goal, we could add an animation to the video downloaded progressively via Flash. We can attach a MovieClip from the library, call a function, retrieve values and use them in our animation…in brief; we could whatever Actionscript allows us to do inside the video.
Even more, I will use an XML file, loaded naturally in Flash with the XML Class of Flash CS3 , into which I will write the values of the cue points (time, name and type). I will then tell Flash what to do at the precise moment the cue point is reached during the reproduction of the video.
It is a lot easier to do then explain…so let us get into it. Follow me…
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