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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!
© http://www.styleandflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/internet.jpg
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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