Flash Video Encoder User Guide

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About cue points

Cue points cause the video playback to start other actions within the presentation and let you synchronize the video with animation, text, graphics, and other interactive content. For example, you can create a Flash presentation that has video playing in one area of the screen while text and graphics appear in another area.

Each cue point consists of a name, the time at which it occurs in the video, type of cue point, and optional parameters. You specify cue point times using the format hour:minute:second:millisecond. When the encoded FLV file is played back within a Flash SWF file, and the FLV plays or seeks to the elapsed time specified by the cue point, the action you've specified is triggered.

Flash Video Encoder lets you embed cue points in video clips using the Flash Video Encoding Settings dialog box. You can assign each cue point an event type and parameter that can be used with ActionScript™ or the Flash FLVPlayback component to programmatically cause the video playback to start other actions in the presentation.

You can save and load cue points, letting you more easily apply cue points created for one video clip to another. The cue point data is saved in XML format, letting you share it across platforms and applying it to any video that supports the FLV cue point format.

Flash CS3