Sometime after the release of Dreamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia released a little standalone product called the Flash Video Kit. It contained a Dreamweaver extension, a lite edition of Sorenson Squeeze, samples and a mound of documentation to enable the user to create flash video and embed it in their page. Flash video was a new creature thanks to Flash MX 2004 and the Flash Video Kit was developed too late for inclusion in Dreamweaver MX 2004, so it was sold separately.
Dreamweaver 8 has integrated the extension portion of the kit into the product and made it nice and easy for Flash video to be inserted on the web page. It still has to be encoded first, of course, but we’ll discuss the options for that and introduce you to the complexities of Flash video in this article.
Finally, we’ll apply our knowledge to our case study by inserting the Flash video included with this project into the home page we created in Article 7. We hope you will find this information useful and have many uses for this wonderful technology that is only getting better.
In early 1996, Nancy Gill picked up her first book on HTML and permanently said goodbye to the legal field. She has been busy ever since developing web sites for businesses, organizations and social groups in Central California and occasionally beyond. Nancy has served as a member of Team Macromedia since late 2001, first with UltraDev and then moving to Dreamweaver when the programs were consolidated in 2002. She also serves as Assistant Manager for the Central California Macromedia User's Group.