Monday, March 26, 2007

Minimum The Flash File

We will submit this project by CD; however, we have to consider the size of flash file in order to upload later and gain more experience. In flash, there are 2 ways to import video in to library:

  • EMBED: very easy, can be used to create video button but increase the file size. The video files are inside the flash.
  • DOWNLOAD from SERVER (DfS): a little harder, just display the video but maintain the file size. The video are outsize the flash but in the same roof

:: I suggest that we just use EMBED for videos which will be used for creating buttons, and use DfS for videos which will be used for playing video

Note: We have to book the studio because I need to work on video with file size more than 10 Mb to test the loading time (My computer has low RAM; so, I used 1-2 Mb video to test).



Sunday, March 25, 2007

New Solution For Video Button

Please don't look at this testing swf file with the eyes of designer
Yes, this testing file very ugly but this is the best solution for us
This solution is far more superiors than the previous ones.
Who want to know how to do this, just buy me "Cafe sua da" at HighLand Coffee

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Video Button


Lam, you want the video clip play when the users put the mouse over the video clip (however, we do not know the technique which was used in www.saturn.com)
I think this is the first solution for that problem
On another hand, this solution has some disadvantage
  • When the users move the mouse outside the video clip, the video clip can not play backward. As a result, we have to export the video into separate images and put them in the flash ----> waste time
  • We have to put the first image and the video in the same position so that it can play smoothly ----> very hard to modify later
Note: this solution can be used if we can not figure out another way