About Flash Video and Flash Video Encoder

Flash Video offers technological and creative benefits that let you create rich, immersive experiences that combine video presentations with data, graphics, sound, and interactive control.

Flash Video provides full creative control and integrates easily into your website. You can use video skins (graphic themes) to customize video presentations, incorporate your organization's branding, and design unique controls that let visitors to your website interact with video content.

Flash treats Flash Video simply as a media type, so you can layer, script, and control video like any other object in a Flash SWF file. Flash Video is an integral part of the viewing experience, not a separate pop-up window that plays video externally and interrupts the experience.

Flash Video Encoder lets you encode video files in either the On2 VP6 or Sorenson™ Spark™ video codecs. A codec is an algorithm that controls how video files are compressed during import and decompressed during playback. You can use Flash Video Encoder on a computer that does not have Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional or other Adobe Creative Suite® 3 software installed. This configuration lets you continue working with Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, or another application while encoding, because video encoding is a processor-intensive activity that often prevents you from simultaneously working in other applications.

Using Flash Video Encoder on a dedicated computer for video encoding lets you batch-process multiple video clips; in environments where video is a significant form of content, batch processing produces an expedited workflow. You can add, reorder, and change the encoding settings of files in the batch processing queue while Flash Video Encoder is encoding video files.

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