Video Preview in Flash

By tom green in Flash, Tutorial, Video Tutorials
Tuesday December 15, 2009

Use a still frame from your flash video as a place holder for the video player on screen. Tom Green goes over the preview feature of the FLV playback component. Click here to download the files to follow along with this tutorial.

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Author: tom green Tom is a professor of Interactive Multimedia through the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Media Studies. Like all faculty in the program, Tom believes his students deserve to be taught by instructors who are regarded as experts in their field and whose knowledge of their subject is current with industry best practice.

Mark (Reply) on Tuesday December 15, 2009

Tom,

You note that you don’t include the .png extension but you don’t explain why. When I preview it withtout the .png I get the following error: Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2035: URL Not Found.

It works fine with the .png extension included.

-Mark-
Mark (Reply) on Tuesday December 15, 2009

Tom,

You note that you didn’t use the .png extension but didn’t explain why. When I previewed it without the .png I got the following error: Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2035: URL Not Found. When I added the .png it worked fine with no errors.

Why no .png?

-Mark-
SkullOfSkill (Reply) on Tuesday December 15, 2009

Nice.. I like that.. That is great for web pages that have video surprises…
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Al (Reply) on Tuesday December 15, 2009

What do I do if wanna add another video clip at on a different frame?
I have 4 videos to put on at frame 405,505,605 & 705.
I’m new to Flash and Actionsrcipting so be gentle with me!