Flash Media Technology

Presented by: Michael Dabydeen

(@firelinks) UG Berbice Campus 2012

• Speaker• Michael Dabydeen – Developer/Student from Guyana

living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Find out more at http://www.michaeldabydeen.com/about/michael

• This Talk • Designed for Students studying CSI 225 – Internet

Computing at the University of Guyana, Berbice Campus. Presented via online conference using Google Hangout ™ (as an experiment)

• Topic• Talk is about Flash & Multimedia as an interface concept,

as course of study is focused on engineering User Interface (UI) Design, and understanding User Experience (UX).

About

How to create Flash Files◦ Takes too long◦ You can learn from good tutorials sites provided.

How to create ActionScript Files◦ Beyond the scope of this presentation and your

course

What’s NOT going to be covered

All about Flash, Multimedia and RIA Understanding Flash Content, Content

Types. How it integrates with the World Wide Web How to place flash content on your

webpage All your questions you may have about

Flash

What IS going to be covered

To better websites

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How far we came!

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Why NOT Flash???

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Closed Sourced. Proprietary technology to Adobe Corporation ™.

Security loop holes. Doesn’t well supported on all Operating

Systems◦ Unix based not well supported.

Mobile Disaster◦ Steve Jobs◦ Apple vs. Adobe

Performance/Load time (SLow

Issues with Flash

The new guys in town

Good option for creative multimedia. Able to create rich internet applications

(RIA) Stream media (Audio/Video)

So, then, Why Flash?

Flash◦ Adobe Flash Professional

Flex◦ Adobe platform for building flash content for

mobile websites Air

◦ Adobe platform for “platform independent” applications

ActionScript◦ Programming Language used to create interaction

with Flash content

Understanding the Adobe Flash Family

.FLA – Workspace file created when using Adobe Flash Professional

.SWF – Flash Movie Format .FLV, F4V, .MP4 – Flash Video Format

Understanding Flash Types

How Flash Works (Web)

Browser

SWF Movie file

Codec

User request Flash

How to integrate Flash into website

Internet History Inforgraphic - http://www.dr4ward.com/dr4ward/2011/02/the-history-of-internet-user-immersion-infographic.html

Adobe Official Flash Tutorials - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-professional-cs4 Much Simpler Adobe Flash Tutorials - http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=45

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