This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a Flash-based paper doll cut out of Jessica Rabbit, complete with color changing outfits.
Have you ever seen those little paper doll cut outs that come with different outfits with tabs you fold around them to dress them? Well, this is a Flash version of just that, minus the little unattractive tabs on all of the outfits. And, instead of a generic doll, we’re going to dress up Jessica Rabbit.
This tutorial is intended for you to learn how to make a Flash animation with small size, and just enough interactivity to keep people interested. This looks a lot more complicated than it actually is. There are only small bits of code for Actionscript that we’ll be using to make this whole animation work (which I will explain to you when we get there).
The release of the RTMP specs by Adobe yesterday has thrown up some questions on the nologies. And free Adobe tech support too - I suggest you FlashMedia List, and several people are asking themselves if it is a good idea to actually read them as doing so (or even simply downloading the specs) will mean that you agree to be bound to the RTMP license. In particular, the license includes a section about prohibited uses:
“Prohibited Uses The rights and licenses granted by Adobe in the RTMP Specification, including those granted in the Patent License, are conditioned upon Your agreement to use the RTMP Specification for only streaming video, audio and/or data content and not to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import or distribute: (i) any technology that intercepts streaming video, audio and/or data content for storage in any device or medium; or (ii) any technology that circumvents technological measures for the protection of audio, video and/or data content, including any of Adobe’s secure RTMP measures. No right or license to any Adobe intellectual property is granted for such prohibited uses.”
I’ve noticed two separate presentations having been posted by separate authors, both covering the Peer-to-Peer features in Flash Player 10 in combination with Stratus.
The first, shorter video tutorial was authored by Tom Krcha of Adobe and guides you through building a simple P2P application leveraging Stratus. Watch it here.
The second presentation is an hour long session by Danny Patterson and goes into more depth than the previous tutorial. I haven’t watched it in full but the part that I have seen looked very interesting and I definitely recommend you check it out.
It should be noted that Stratus is still in beta and detecting failed P2P connections can be a quite tricky. I would not recommend the P2P features for production use yet, instead you may want to rely on AFCS to handle the RTMP fallover for you.
My friend Jan was recently asked by a client for a list of H.264-related references. And Jan figured that if these references are worthwhile to his client, perhaps they might be worthwhile for you, so here they are. For much more great content around all things streaming check out Jan’s Streaminglearningcenter.com.
General H.264
Wikipedia - it all starts with Wikipedia, but you probably knew that. Here you can find all you need to know about profiles, levels and entropy encoding (oh, my!).
The Future’s So Bright: H.264 Year in Review. Before you recommend H.264 to a client, or for internal use, you need to know that H.264 comes with some baggage, in the form of royalties (yes, royalties). In fact, depending upon how you’re currently deploying H.264 encoded video, you might already have triggered a royalty obligation. Read all about it here, as well as why H.264 adaption has been relatively slow among major broadcasters and corporations.
This tutorial will show you how to customize your cursor in three easy steps using Flash.
We are assuming you’ve already got your ad/animation/webpage ready to go, and now you want to customize your cursor to match. You can have some fun with this, making it a fancy arrow, a cross-hair, a little face, a pencil, a torn off hand, whatever you want - you can even make it animated.
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