Interactive Video for Campus Journalists

Ben Johnson johnsonb20@southernct.edu

Robert Workman Southern Connecticut State University

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Video Capture

For our demonstration video was captured with an iPod Nano - Weight 1.28 ounces, holds up to 8 hours

of video - Captures H 264 VGA video 640 by 480 pixels up to 30 frames per second

Video Encoding

Files are dragged from the iPod Camcorder to the Adobe Media Encoder

Media Encoder Settings

Importing Videos into the Video Layer

File > Import > Import Video

Getting Started With Flash

Layer names are used to describe the contents of Flash Movie layers

The Action Layer

this.button1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Button2Function);

function Button2Function(myevent:MouseEvent):void {this.gotoAndPlay("Video2Start");}

Object oriented ActionScript programming language code controls the interactive video

Saving Flash Movies

File > Export > Export Movie

Adding Flash Movie to a Web Page

Insert > Media > SWF

Summary