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14 About Flash Asset Xtra for Flash Player 8

Creating Flash Video content for Flash

Asset Xtra

The On2 VP6 codec provides superior video quality using the smallest possible file size. You

can use Flash Asset Xtra to deliver high-quality digital video in a Director movie without

requiring an external video player.

There are many options for creating video in Flash. Flash Player 8 even lets you include alpha

channels in your videos. For more information, see Working with Video in Using Flash in

Flash Help or in LiveDocs format.

About ActionScript image effects

Several new Flash Player 8 ActionScript classes help you create powerful image effects. Flash

Asset Xtra lets you access these classes from Director instead of building your own effect

routines in Lingo.

If you want to move image data between Lingo and ActionScript for rendering purposes, you

must use the Lingo convert() API to convert the image to the correct data type. This section

provides examples of two workflows that use the Flash Asset Xtra capabilities with the

convert() API to create image effects.

NOTE

You cannot directly import or insert Flash Video (FLV) files into Director. FLV files must

play inside a SWF file that is imported into Director.

NOTE

If you render the image in its native environment (for example, an ActionScript image in a

Flash sprite or a Lingo image in Director), you don’t need to convert the image data type

to access ActionScript classes from Lingo if you want to create image effects.

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