CHAPTER 10
Flash Video Concepts
Now that you know how to shoot, process and encode Flash video, it’s time to dive a little deeper into the delivery platform that is Flash. In this chapter, you will not only learn Flash’s history and its file formats, but also about:
• what “Flash” actually means
• delivery options for Flash video
• Flash video codec evolution
• video capabilities by Player version.
A Brief History of Flash
Flash has come a long way since first released just over ten years ago. Back in the mid-nineties, it started life as an animation package called SmartSketch by a company named FutureWave Software. The driving force behind FutureWave was Jonathan Gay, who is now known as the father of Flash. SmartSketch enjoyed great success ...
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