MultiMedia Flash Movie
By: Christopher Angus
An attractive website is essential to draw traffic to your site.One needs to be creative and make it lively, after allwho wants to check out some boring lifeless page? Flash multimediahelps in creating eye popping sites.Flash movies can be embedded intoyour web site and really make your web site stand out. One of thewonderful things about Flash is that you can fully customize thepresentation of your content. But using video on the Web has alwaysbeen about compromises. There are many multimedia technologies today.Ultimately they are coming up with more and better offerings.Software like QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media areinvariably the most used software when it comes to videos on the web.The typical download for one of these players is anywhere from 5 to 10MB. Alternately, even if you encode your video using any of the abovesoftware encoding tools, you are only limited to one streaming formator you have to spend a bunch of time switching between tools to makesure your content is accessible. In order to have a better qualityvideo without having to download a huge player that hoards all oftheir MIME types, new software applications are aiming at deliveringhigh quality video to the .swf Flash format.
If your aim is to give your web site's visitors as much information aspossible using minimum site's space, Flash will definitely give you anexcellent design and content. Highlighting your page with Flashanimation would give the site a feeling of being alive and trulyinteractive. Using Flash videos in websites is getting more and morepopular. Normally, creating and embedding Flash Video into yourwebsite requires purchasing Macromedia Flash and their Flash VideoKit. However, with a little effort, you can embed simple progressivedownload Flash Video content with minimal fuss and without having topurchase any expensive tools. You will need two things to have a Flash Video experience on your website. First, you need a Flash file (.swf) that can be embedded into your page and made to playback a video. Second, you need a piece of encoded Flash Video (.flv) that goes inside your player and gets played. This .flv video file can also be combined as part of the .swf file so the browser loads it all as one package.
Luckily, there are simple freeware and shareware toolsavailable that will both encode your video into Flash Video format andcreate the Flash player. An estimated 98 percent of Web users alreadyhave the Flash plug-in installed on their computers, video deliveredin Flash is a great way to go. If you have Macromedia Dreamweaver, youcan use either the Macromedia Flash Video Component or a 3rd-partyextension to build your own Flash Video player. If you want to use amore sophisticated Flash Video player in your website, you can createyour own Flash Video player application in Macromedia Flash.Both Flash and QuickTime offer some very unique characteristics whichmake them uniquely qualified to serve as the multimedia platforms ofchoice. Both Flash and QuickTime offer the widest possible range ofchoices when it comes to how a site can deliver its message. They areubiquitous with hundreds of millions of computers having Flash andQuickTime. QuickTime is so good, it can play Flash movies, and vectorbased movies, sprite movies, mpeg movies and even mp4 movies. It useswhat's called progressive download. They also run equally well on bothMacintosh and Windows computers. Bottom line, you get the quick start of a streaming movie with the quality of a downloaded movie. Both technologies are amenable to both artistic sites and corporate sites if done correctly. And finally,both are free.
Since there is a lot of competition in web designing it is alwayssafer and better to use creativity. With the help of Flash you cancreate your own videos, flashing logos, small movie clips etc. Flashgives better opportunity to use animation and sound interactivity. Itgives excellent opportunity to use completed movies as presentationsand it is an excellent option for banner advertising. Flashy websiteswith animation or 3d effects are far much more appealing thanmotionless pictures. More websites these days are opting for acreative website with 3d effects, high quality sound and graphics.
By: Christopher Angus
An attractive website is essential to draw traffic to your site.One needs to be creative and make it lively, after allwho wants to check out some boring lifeless page? Flash multimediahelps in creating eye popping sites.Flash movies can be embedded intoyour web site and really make your web site stand out. One of thewonderful things about Flash is that you can fully customize thepresentation of your content. But using video on the Web has alwaysbeen about compromises. There are many multimedia technologies today.Ultimately they are coming up with more and better offerings.Software like QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media areinvariably the most used software when it comes to videos on the web.The typical download for one of these players is anywhere from 5 to 10MB. Alternately, even if you encode your video using any of the abovesoftware encoding tools, you are only limited to one streaming formator you have to spend a bunch of time switching between tools to makesure your content is accessible. In order to have a better qualityvideo without having to download a huge player that hoards all oftheir MIME types, new software applications are aiming at deliveringhigh quality video to the .swf Flash format.
If your aim is to give your web site's visitors as much information aspossible using minimum site's space, Flash will definitely give you anexcellent design and content. Highlighting your page with Flashanimation would give the site a feeling of being alive and trulyinteractive. Using Flash videos in websites is getting more and morepopular. Normally, creating and embedding Flash Video into yourwebsite requires purchasing Macromedia Flash and their Flash VideoKit. However, with a little effort, you can embed simple progressivedownload Flash Video content with minimal fuss and without having topurchase any expensive tools. You will need two things to have a Flash Video experience on your website. First, you need a Flash file (.swf) that can be embedded into your page and made to playback a video. Second, you need a piece of encoded Flash Video (.flv) that goes inside your player and gets played. This .flv video file can also be combined as part of the .swf file so the browser loads it all as one package.
Luckily, there are simple freeware and shareware toolsavailable that will both encode your video into Flash Video format andcreate the Flash player. An estimated 98 percent of Web users alreadyhave the Flash plug-in installed on their computers, video deliveredin Flash is a great way to go. If you have Macromedia Dreamweaver, youcan use either the Macromedia Flash Video Component or a 3rd-partyextension to build your own Flash Video player. If you want to use amore sophisticated Flash Video player in your website, you can createyour own Flash Video player application in Macromedia Flash.Both Flash and QuickTime offer some very unique characteristics whichmake them uniquely qualified to serve as the multimedia platforms ofchoice. Both Flash and QuickTime offer the widest possible range ofchoices when it comes to how a site can deliver its message. They areubiquitous with hundreds of millions of computers having Flash andQuickTime. QuickTime is so good, it can play Flash movies, and vectorbased movies, sprite movies, mpeg movies and even mp4 movies. It useswhat's called progressive download. They also run equally well on bothMacintosh and Windows computers. Bottom line, you get the quick start of a streaming movie with the quality of a downloaded movie. Both technologies are amenable to both artistic sites and corporate sites if done correctly. And finally,both are free.
Since there is a lot of competition in web designing it is alwayssafer and better to use creativity. With the help of Flash you cancreate your own videos, flashing logos, small movie clips etc. Flashgives better opportunity to use animation and sound interactivity. Itgives excellent opportunity to use completed movies as presentationsand it is an excellent option for banner advertising. Flashy websiteswith animation or 3d effects are far much more appealing thanmotionless pictures. More websites these days are opting for acreative website with 3d effects, high quality sound and graphics.
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