From pre-production to post, author Rob Reinhardt shares the techniques that make Adobe Flash a powerful tool for sharing video over the Web. With sections on capturing and encoding video, creating and using cue points, working with transparency, and deploying and delivering optimal quality, he covers the information that users need to get started, and then goes in-depth to bring his readers to expert status quickly.

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Comprehensive for webbies and videophiles both - 2008-05-27
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This book is amazing. I have some experience with Flash video and video production techniques, but I felt like I had a lot of gaps in my knowledge. This book covers everything I need to know, and the included code is priceless. If you want a robust Flash player, with auto-detect, auto-update, etc., but don't care to learn the ins and outs of Actionscript, just use what's provided. You'll have Player up and running in minutes.

I ended up sharing the book with our Video Production team, too. They used a lot of the instruction about good compression, proper aspect ratios, and creating alpha channels for FLVs.

Essential - 2007-11-07
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There's nobody more prolific and comprehensive in the world of Flash video delivery than Reinhardt. Considering the enormity of topics and goals addressed in this book, he's really outdone himself this time. Essential for anyone interested in serious deployment of Flash video.

Rob Reinhardt Consistently Delivers the Best in Flash Video! - 2007-12-06
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Rob Reinhardt is the master of Video deployed in Flash. I was so happy to see he finally has written a book that captures his knowledge, experience, and excellent teaching skills. Rob is clear, concise and you can be guaranteed that he has tested, used and deployed all the techniques he demonstrates.
Bravo!!!!!

Decent book - 2007-11-06
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this book is a decent hands-on approach to creating video players using AS3 & AS2. Two of the missing things that I think are necessary are creating custom volume controls and handling full-screen mode.

hit the spot - 2009-11-10
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From knowing nothing on embedding video into web pages, with no knowledge of flash and action script, with the help of this book I was able achieve effective results. I have created my own swf video player, including coding my own pause and play buttons in ActionScript 3.0. I was also able to embed my flash videos into html using the swfobject (although the book covers 1.5, but swfobject 2.0 is quite easy to follow if look on the net, once you realize that swfobject 2.0 does not have a different kind of constructor)

The examples in the book are comprehensive and clear and well supported by theory, the book also has a flawless (from my use anyway) DVD with the worked examples and videos. This is a well crafted and high quality book (including the print).

The experience of a book depends on both the book and reader, I have had this book for some time, and struggled early. But when I was ready to learn, the book was ready to teach. I am now quite excited at what I am now able to achieve.

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