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256 Tutorial: Building a Video Player (Flash Professional only)
In this tutorial, after examining an existing Flash document, you’ll begin by
creating a new Flash document and end by publishing the application for
web playback. The tutorial should take approximately 20 to 30 minutes
to complete.
Examine the completed
application
As you examine the finished version of an application you’ll create, you will
also look at the Flash workspace.
In subsequent sections you’ll follow the steps to create the application
yourself.
Run the completed application
To better understand the type of application you’ll create as you work
through this tutorial, you can look at a completed FLA file version of the
application in the Flash authoring tool. FLA files are the files you work on
in Flash. You can also play the SWF version of the file in Flash Player. The
SWF version is the version of the file that you would publish in a web page.
To play the SWF version of the file in Flash Player:
1. In Flash, select File > Open.
2. Browse to the completed file in the
local_sites\cafe_townsend\completed files\flash folder that you copied
to your local disk in Chapter 4, “Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and
Project Files” and double-click video_pod_finished.swf.
The completed application runs in Flash Player. Click the playback
controls at the bottom of the window to watch the video.
3.
After viewing the application, close the Flash Player window.
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