In my last post I did a quick comparison of Jing screencast video in lossless swf vs lossy flv hosted on YouTube. After seeing the rendered results embedded in a web page I quickly became a bit more curious about YouTube’s flv files and set out to discover some more info.
First, using Safari’s Activity monitor, [...]
I’ve been watching the blogosphere comments regarding TechSmith’s Jing Project and a frequent objection / feature request is for Jing to output to the popular consumer video hosting site YouTube. This is an interesting request given a couple of facts:
YouTube currently doesn’t support upload of videos from third party tools or sites. To say it [...]
Woot! JD left a comment today on an a previous post indicating that the Adobe Flash 9 SWF Specification will be pushed live the last week of July 07.
It’s been a while coming, but I’m just geeky enough to be happy knowing I’ll be parsing that pdf within a fortnight.
Oh, and thanks JD for somehow [...]
After banging my head against a brick wall for a bit, I finally realized that when embedding assets in ActionScript3 files the path to the embedded asset is relative to the location of the .as file in which the embed statement is placed and not relative to my MXML or AS application entry point. If [...]
In case you’re wondering where Flex Builder installs the Flex framework .as source files here’s a snapshot:
And Here’s a path to copy and paste (based on the moxie beta):
/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/sdks/moxie/frameworks/projects/framework/src
Anyone know if After Effects SWF Export feature is broken? Every time I try to export a SWF file I just see this:
Any insights would be appreciated (I’m talking to you Steve Kilisky :) ).
If you are embedding Jing video content on your website sometimes its preferable to have the video autostart instead of showing the reflecting click to play thumbnail. If that’s the case, you just need to pass in a parameter via flashvars or the url query string. Here’s a Jing video sans audio which shows you [...]
If you’re looking to embed Jing content hosted on Screencast.com on your own site here’s a snapshot of how you would do with SWFObject:
Right now there’s no “nice” way to grab a uri to the swf file you’d like to embed, so you will need to “View Source” in your browser, do a search for [...]
If you’ve tried the Jing Rich Recording Client on OS X and the novelty of the Sun UI glob has worn thin it’s super simple to set up a shortcut key and turn the UI off entirely (a Jing menubar icon with three items will appear on the right hand side of the menu bar [...]
Every once in a while you get to work on a project with the potential to be a game changer in the industry; something that can change people’s lives; a revolutionary technology that may fundamentally change the way we communicate with each other. I’m proud to announce that I was able to contribute in a [...]