IFBIN - Great Software By Example

Flash® 8 Professional contains a new video codec and new video components. The video codec is based on ON2 VP6 and is amazing compared to the Sorenson codec. The example is 60 seconds of VP6 video of my cat Marley fetching a mouse.

The video was recorded from a Canon digital camera and encoded the lowest level prior to pixelization of the video. The video shows my cat Marley playing fetch with his favorite toy mouse. There is a new video component that ships with Flash® Professional 8 that makes deploying video really easy. Just encode the video and select from a range of skins. The example below uses the "Clear Over" skin but there are many to choose from and they are externally loadable as SWF files.



The VP6 video is 1.6MB in size for 60 seconds. Compared to the Sorenson codec this video is 60% smaller with much higher visual quality. I will encode some higher quality video and post a more comprehensive test.

Flash® by Example will ship with many Flash(R) 8 examples. We will be posting them here and will deploy them onto Flash® by Example when Studio 8 ships. Special thanks to Macromedia for allowing developers to post Flash® 8 examples in advance of the product shipment.

Having created over 150+ examples with Flash® 8 Professional myself, this is the best release of Flash® ever. Kudos to the Authoring team and the Player team for creating such an amazing toolset.

More to come,

Ted :)