Flash CS4 Professional in 24 Hours- P13: The creation of this book could not have happened without the skill and patience of many, many people at Sams Publishing. Most of all, I want to thank Mark Taber for offering me this opportunity and Philip Kerman for writing such a great book. I also greatly appreciate the efforts of Songlin Qiu for keeping me on track and organized, not an easy task. | Embedding Video Versus Playing External Video 351 FIGURE This screen enables you to choose how your video is embedded in your Flash movie. TRY IT YOURSELF Embed a Video FIGURE When you place a video on the Stage Flash asks if you want to extend the Timeline to accommodate the video s length. If all you wanted is a video inside Flash you could stop after the preceding task. However embedding the video inside your movie the way you did in step 2 in the preceding task is not always the best choice. You use an .flv 352 HOUR 19 Using Video for external playback in the Playing External .flv Videos section later this hour. You re welcome to repeat this task but select Load External Video with Playback Component in step 2. The main difference is you see an additional Skinning dialog before the last step as shown in Figure . We step you through these later but we want to mention it for comparison to the embed technique we just showed. FIGURE When creating an .flv you can select from a variety of skins. Using Video Next you learn some of the ways to display videos both embedded into your .swf and created as an .flv that resides outside of your file. In this section you see how to control the playback of your videos like giving the user a stop and play button as well as using special effects such as masking. The creative side of displaying a video is more interesting than the technical details. Because the technical details vary between embedded and external video we ve separated the two. Playing an Embedded Video As a review a sound in a keyframe that has its sync setting set to Event begins to play when that frame is reached and it continues to play until it s finished even if the Timeline slows down to display all the frames. Sounds with the sync setting of Stream are locked to the Timeline. This means you Using Video 353 need to make sure the sound has enough space in the Timeline to finish. The reason to review Stream sounds at this point is that an .
