Flash Video: Pitfalls and Misconceptions (Part 1)

Do you want to know what you should not do when working with Flash Video? One of he country’s top flash video turners gave these answers when asked questions on what problems his students routinely had. The answers could save you frustration and time.

James Gonzales taught in classrooms, in online tutorials, in books where his experience in getting students to master Flash. A professor at College of Marin, in California, and the author of Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Hands-on Training, published by Peachpit Press, he has also written tutorial articles for InformIt.com

1. Video Capture Is the Real Difficulty. When teaching, Gonzalez often sees that capturing video gives his students far more problems that converting it. Getting the digital video they want into a format that can be encoded is the bigger headache. Often, students approach him with a commercial DVD and ask how they can get the content onto their sites. Gonzalez then needs to educate them about video formats�and digital rights.

…to be continued.