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The DVPA Online University is home to over 90,000 video tutorials on over 800 courses. This Flash tutorial produced by our partners at the Virtual Training Company includes a total of over ten and a half hours of training on Adobe Flash CS4. Please enjoy the free samples from this training session below. All online training is available 24/7 and is included with all DVPA memberships for one low price. DVPA members have access to the entire library of tutorials provided by VTC.

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Flash Video Basics

Overview (3:33)

Encoding & Keyframes (3:40)

Video Codecs & Flash Player Version (3:03)

Bit Rate / Frame Rate & Frame Size (4:49)

Video Standards: NTSC & PAL (4:30)

Pixel Aspect Ratio (3:46)

Interlaced vs. Progressive Video (3:58)


Deploying Flash Video

Overview of Flash Video (2:22)

Embedded vs. External Video (5:53)

Progressive Download vs. Streaming (5:35)

Deploying with Dreamweaver (5:33)

Deploying Video With Flash 1 (3:37)

Deploying Video With Flash 2 (4:23)

Deploying Video With Flash 3 (5:42)

Deploying with SWF Object 1 (4:13)

Deploying with SWF Object 2 (5:10)

IE's ActiveX Warning (2:43)


Working with SWF Object

SWF Object & JW Player 1 (4:23)

SWF Object & JW Player 2 (3:35)

SWF Object & JW Player 3 (5:53)

Not Using Optional Arguments (2:10)

SWF Object Generator (5:15)


Over ten additional hours and more than 120 more tutorials are available in this Flash tutorial series from Michael Hurwicz and James Gonzalez.


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Interlaced vs Progressive tutorial
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