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Building a Video Player in Flash CS3
By Craig Campbell
Running Time: 4 hours, 3 minutes
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Overview
Learn how to create your own custom video player using Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell will show you how to create your own Flash video player with your own customized controls, including playback buttons, a volume slider, and a progress bar with a draggable playhead.
Detailed Video Descriptions
- 1 – Introduction (Running Time: 1:18)
- 2 – The FLVPlayback Component (Running Time: 5:08)
In this video, Craig shows you how to get an FLV video up and running in your Flash file in a manner of seconds using the FLVPlayback Component! - 3 – Adding Quick Controls (Running Time: 6:50)
With your FLVPlayback component up and running, Craig demonstrates two different ways to add some quick playback controls without using a single line of ActionScript code. - 4 – Importing Video to Flash (Running Time: 12:59)
If you have a video that’s not already in FLV format, you can use Flash’s “Import Video” command in order to convert it. In this video, Craig will demonstrate this process. - 5 – Skinning Playback Controls (Running Time: 17:28)
In this video, you’ll learn how to redesign the existing playback controls that ship with the components panel. - 6 – The Video Class (Running Time: 12:58)
Although the FLVPlayback component is quick and easy to use, there is a lot of overhead involved in using it, as far as file size and processing requirements are concerned. In this video, we’re going to jump into ActionScript and take a look at how to get a video to start playing using the Video class. - 7 – Handling Events and Errors (Running Time: 20:15)
In order to make all the errors go away, there are a few event handlers that need to be added to the code we’ve already produced. - 8 – Drawing Playback Controls (Running Time: 11:43)
In this video, Craig begins putting the graphics together for the play and pause buttons. - 9 – Coding the Pause Button (Running Time: 9:52)
In this lesson, Craig demonstrates how to add code to the pause button in order to get it to function properly. - 10 – Coding The Play Button (Running Time: 3:24)
Now that the user can stop the playback, he or she will probably want a way to start it back up again. In this video, Craig will demonstrate how to code the play button. - 11 – Adding a Stop Button (Running Time: 5:26)
This button is similar to the pause button, but when it’s pressed, it will take the video back to the beginning. - 12 – Creating a Volume Slider (Running Time: 16:16)
In this video, Craig demonstrates how to create a draggable slider that will eventually control the volume level of our video clips. - 13 – Coding the Volume Slider (Running Time: 14:31)
With the draggable volume slider in place, Craig now demonstrates how to use a little ActionScript trickery to adjust the volume as the slider moves up and down. - 14 – Creating a Progress Bar (Running Time: 16:57)
In this lesson, Craig demonstrates how to construct a progress bar that will display the current playback position of the video and allow the users to advance to any point in the video. - 15 – Coding the Progress Bar (Running Time: 18:20)
Now that we’ve built the progress bar, Craig demonstrates how to code it so that the user can drag the playhead around in order to update the current playback position of the video. - 16 – Automatically Moving the Playhead (Running Time: 11:18)
In this video, we’ll set up the playhead of our progress bar so that it automatically moves as the video progresses. - 17 – Fading Out the Controls (Running Time: 8:45)
In this video, Craig demonstrates how to make the playback controls fade out after two seconds. - 18 – Fading In and Out (Running Time: 13:06)
After the controls fade out, we need to add the functionality to allow them to come back. In this video, Craig will demonstrate how to allow the controls to fade in and out when the users moves the mouse cursor over and away from the controls. - 19 – Creating a Thumbnail Menu (Running Time: 6:11)
In this video, Craig will create a menu of video thumbnails that will allow you to select from multiple videos. - 20 – Coding the Thumbnails (Running Time: 9:15)
With the thumbnails created, Craig now demonstrates how to set up the thumbnails so that when the user clicks on them, the video player plays the corresponding video. - 21 – One Video at a Time (Running Time: 5:56)
With the way things are set up, we’re having an issue when we click on a thumbnail after already starting another video. The audio from the two videos start overlapping each other. In this video, Craig will demonstrate how to overcome this problem. - 22 – Toggling Menu Visibility (Running Time: 12:22)
Now that the thumbnail menu is working, Craig demonstrates how to turn the menu off and on. - 23 – Conclusion (Running Time: 2:33)
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