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December 17, 2003
Flash MX pro 04 Video Update
It seems Macromedia recently released a Video Update (Exporter and Updated Media Components) for Flash MX Professional 2004. "All users creating video projects in Flash on any language should install this update" it says.
You can download the update here.
From the documentation:
This update contains Flash Video Exporter version 1.1, and updated Media Components (build 453).
Flash Video Exporter
Includes several enhancements and bug fixes, including:
- A new “two-pass” encoder that delivers even better image quality
- Video length information is included in encoded files; this information is automatically detected by the updated Media Components
- Frames per second setting was not handled properly in some video editing software packages
Media Components
Include several enhancements and bug fixes, including:
- Better interoperability for RTMP streaming with Flash Communication Server, including better seeking and better scrub bar control
- Support for the new Flash Video Streaming Service powered by VitalStream when using the Flash Video Streaming Service Behavior from VitalStream
- Supports automatic file Video Length detection (in all forms of delivery: progressive download, RTMP streaming, and from the Flash Video Streaming Service) when encoding FLV files using Flash Video Exporter version 1.1
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The components were updated again at 30th January 2004. Now the exporter version is 1.2 and components build version is 471. Here's what's new:
Video Exporter 1.2adds support for the following English software:
- Cleaner XL 6.0 Second Package (Win)
- QuickTime Pro 6.4 (Win)
- Avid Xpress 4.0 (Win)
- Adobe After Effects 6.0 (Win)
- Final Cut Pro 4.0 and 4.1 (Mac)
- Adobe After Effects 6.0 (Mac)
- Cleaner 6.0.1 (Mac)
- QuickTime Pro 6.4 and 6.5 (Mac)
Also support for amany Japanese software were added.
Media Components version 471:
- Media Components in movieclips which are not on the stage no longer play automatically when a setMedia method is called on them, regardless of their autoPlay property setting.
- CuePoints don't fire when a play() call sends the playhead to a time before the cuePoints.
- Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh no longer crashes when playing movies which contain more than 3 RTMP streams played from a Media Component.
- The cuePoint event now refers to the broadcasting instance (either MediaDisplay or MediaPlayback) for event.target, instead of to the cuePoint object.
- The cuePoint event now uses event.cuePointName and event.cuePointTime when referring to the name and time of the cuePoint fired in the event.
- Improved functionality when changing between media.
- The autoSize property of MediaDisplay and MediaPlayback components now can be adjusted at runtime.
- All three components have more default bindable properties in the schema tab of the Component Inspector.
Posted by: Burak KALAYCI at Feb 6, 2004 9:37:24 AM
