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Video is one of the most exciting features on today's Internet, with widespread adoption being made possible by advances in bandwidth and software. But simply streaming video clips to Web users is only the tip of the iceberg! Flash CS3 offers a whole host of advanced video features, allowing you to create breathtaking user experiences.

And this book, the 2nd edition of the critically-acclaimed Foundation Flash 8 Video, shows you how to make the most of video in Flash CS3. The authors start with the basics of creating video ready for use on the web using popular applications such as Windows Movie Maker and iMovie, creating FLV (Flash video) using both Flash and other applications such as Sorenson Squeeze, and importing that video into Flash.

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If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data.

ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.

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In this book, you'll learn:

• the essential principles of object-oriented programming, including inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, and more
• valuable lessons on actionscript 3.0 project planning and programming, including design patterns and source control
• how to create your own extensible, reusable application framework using OOP best practices
• advanced data integration techniques such as Web services and communication between Flash and the browser Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0

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In this book, you'll learn:

• The ins and outs of the Flash CS3 interface
• How to use all of Flash CS3's essential features, such as text, graphics, and animation
• How to use video and sound effectively in Flash
• The basics of ActionScript 3.0
• Building Flash user interfaces rapidly using components.
• How to populate a Flash movie with dynamic data such as XML.
• The Basics of creating Flash Lite applications (Flash for mobile devices)
• Using Cascading Style Sheets with Flash
• Optimizing and publishing your Flash movies

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In this book, you'll learn

* All the ActionScript 3.0 (including math and trigonometry functions) and Flash rendering techniques you'll need to start animating with code

* Basic motion principles such as velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing

* How to handle user interaction via the keyboard and mouse

*Advanced motion techniques such as springs, coordinate rotation, conservation of momentum, and forward and inverse kinematics

*All the basic 3D concepts you need to do 3D in Flash, from simple perspective to full 3D solids complete with backface culling and dynamic lighting

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Now that ActionScript is reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash and Flex applications. If you're an experienced Flash or Flex developer ready to tackle sophisticated programming techniques with ActionScript 3.0, this hands-on introduction to design patterns is the book you need.

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ActionScript is the official programming language of Adobe`s Flash platform. More than two years in the making, ActionScript 3.0 presents perhaps the most substantial upgrade to Flash's programming language ever. Essential ActionScript 3.0 is an update to Essential ActionScript 2.0, focusing on the core language and object-oriented programming with some coverage of the Flash Player API.