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CreativeCOW leader, Lee Brimelow demonstrates Flash Video Basics. In this tutorial, we'll create a loader or load bar which will show how much of our flv video is loaded. This is part three in the series.
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Re: COW Tutorials: Flash Video Basics: Part Three by lajoiet on Apr 6, 2005 at 2:38:04 am
Lee, once again a FANTASTIC tutorial. You make it all just make sense WAY more than the documentation seems to for me. I've stepped through parts 1,2, and 3 and everything is going just fine, but my progress bar is expanding from the center rather than the left edge. I tried moving the center point of both the loaderBar and the Loader and it seems to have no effect!!??? I know it's probably something simple and basic, but I'm basically self taught in flash and I'm afraid I may have missed some of the basics.
Once again, thanks for the tutorial. I'm eagerly anticipating the scrubber bar!!!
Re: COW Tutorials: Flash Video Basics: Part Three by LeeBrimelow on Apr 6, 2005 at 4:16:13 am
Glad you're enjoying the tutorials :-)
As for why your bar is expanding from the center, its because the registration point is in the center and this where all rotation and scaling happen around.
When creating a symbol choose the upper left hand corner dot from the registration point section of the Conver to Symbol dialogue box. That should fix it.
Re: COW Tutorials: Flash Video Basics: Part Three by lajoiet on Apr 11, 2005 at 3:22:17 am
Hey Lee, Thanks for the info, I wasn't paying attention when I was converting the bar to a movie clip, just when I was making the bar. Here's another strange queston. I've got a project with 4 FLV's in it that is going to run from a CD. I burned the projector and flv and all onto a CD to test the load time and speed from my CD-Rom, but it loaded instantly (they are 2-3 minute 640x480 @15fps, running about 12MB each, so I REALLY doubt they are loading instantly) Now the question, Where does flash store the temp files? It seems to me in this case that it already has the FLV files stashed somewhere from when I tested it in flash. Let me know if I've left out any info you might need since I don't know NEARLY what is really going on with all of the scripting and such around the FLV playing.
Re: COW Tutorials: Flash Video Basics: Part Three by LeeBrimelow on Apr 11, 2005 at 8:22:12 am
When you test your Flash movies in the Flash authoring environment it cache's the files in Internet Explorer. If you go into IE and empty your cache it should fix it. That is for a PC anyway.
Re: COW Tutorials: Flash Video Basics: Part Three by lajoiet on Apr 12, 2005 at 12:13:41 pm
Thanks Lee, I'll try that. I find it kind of strange that it would cache files for a projector running off of a CD in IE tho, but hey, stranger things have been true.
