304 Working with Video
Using the FLVPlayback component
(Flash Professional only)
With Flash Professional 8 media components, you can quickly and easily add Flash video and
playback controls to your documents. Then, using cue points, you can synchronize your video
with animation, text, and graphics. For example, you can create a Flash presentation that has
video playing in one area of the screen while text and graphics appear in another area. A cue
point placed in the video triggers an update to the text and graphic, letting them remain
relevant to the content of the video.
New to Flash Professional 8 is FLVPlayback, a component designed to let you implement
video quickly and successfully, while providing a richer feature set than the components
available in previous versions of Flash. Using the FLVPlayback component, you can play video
delivered by progressive streaming video over HTTP from a Flash Video Streaming Service
(FVSS) or from Flash Communication Server (FCS).
The FLVPlayback component does the following:
■ Provides a set of prefabricated skins with which to customize playback controls and the
look and feel of the user interface
■ Lets advanced users create their own custom skins
■ Provides cue points that you can use to synchronize your video with the animation, text,
and graphics within your Flash application
■ Provides live preview of customizations
■ Maintains a reasonably sized SWF file for easy download
The FLVPlayback component is the display area in which you view video. The FLVPlayback
component includes the FLV Custom UI controls, a set of control buttons that let you play,
stop, pause, and control playback the video. These controls include the BackButton,
ForwardButton, PauseButton, PlayButton, PlayPauseButton, SeekBar, and StopButton,
which you can drag to the Stage and customize individually.
The following sections provide basic instructions on configuring the FLVPlayback
component after you import a video into Flash using the Video Import wizard. To learn more
advanced procedures for working with the FLVPlayback component, see Chapter 22,
“FLVPlayback Component (Flash Professional Only),” in the Components Language Reference.
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