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Chapter 11: Working with Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
About video features in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
About using video in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Video and the Property inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
About digital video and Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Importing video using the Video Import wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Encoding video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Importing Flash Video files into the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
About playing back external FLV files dynamically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Changing the properties of a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301
Controlling video playback using behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Using the FLVPlayback component (Flash Professional only) . . . . 304
About controlling video playback using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Media components (Flash Player 6 and 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Chapter 12: Working with Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Importing sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Adding sounds to a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313
Adding sounds to buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
Using sounds with Sound objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
About accessing ID3 properties in MP3 files with Flash Player . . . .316
Using the sound-editing controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Controlling sound playback using behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
Starting and stopping sounds at keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
About the onSoundComplete event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Compressing sounds for export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321
About using sounds in Flash Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Chapter 13: Writing ActionScript with Script Assist . . . . . . . . . 327
About Script Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Using Script Assist to write ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Creating a startDrag/stopDrag event using Script Assist . . . . . . . . . .331
Chapter 14: Working with Screens
(Flash Professional Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Understanding screen-based documents and the
screen authoring environment (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . 336
Using the Screen Outline pane (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . 342
About undoing and redoing commands with screens
(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Using the screens context menu (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . 343