Make Flash Banner Online – Much Easier than You Think

Got attracted by those twinkles from flash banners when surfing on the Internet? Got depressed also because you think it must be very difficult to make one like that on your own?

No worries, the flash-banner-making process is much easier than you think and has a lot of fun, let’s figure it out how:

All we need is an online flash banner maker program called BannerSnack, it’s a very handy and powerful online tool for making flash banners with just 3 steps: Create, Animate and Publish. Believe me, it’s quite convenient cause you don’t even have to download the program, just spend one minute to sign up and start to make your unique flash banners online right away. By the way, it’s totally free!

Step 1: Create New Flash Banner – Choose a banner size from up to 14 options and set background either with color/image, or none.

Step 2: Animate Flash Banner – Add text or image, then customize the effects by clicking “Filters”, “Build in” and “Build out” tabs. Preview and proceed to make another slide(layer) if necessary.

Step 3: Click “Save” to publish the customized banner and copy the Embed Code so that you can put it in your blog and any website.

When it’s published, the flash banner you created will look something like this:

It’s pretty cool but want to get another challenge to make a complete flash instead the flash banner? Just scroll down and it only needs two steps:

I. We need a Video4Web Converter which can convert almost all your video formats like WMV, ASF, WMA, AVI, RMVB, RM, RA, MOV, QT VOB, MPEG etc at hand to web-ready flash video formats like FLV, H.264 coded MP4, MOV, 3GP and 3G2.

II. A Web FLV player creator that can hold above flash video contents and inserted in any personal blog, forum and website for playback.

Enjoy flash!

--Reshipment from swfkits

How to Create H.264 Web FLV Player

Adobe Flash Player is the well-known carrier that used to deliver videos over the Internet in the format of FLV(Flash Video). The reason is Adobe Flash Player has been installed in 98% netizens’ computers and of course, the webmasters hope their webpages can be viewed by as many people as possible.

In this circumstance, flash video format FLV is hot. Also, because of the complete support from popular video-sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video and so on, it’s hotter. However, FLV is not the only format that works with flash player. The most recent public releases of flash player also support H.264 video, such as H.264 coded MP4, MOV, 3GP and 3G2 due to the fact that although the flash video format itself is open, the codecs used with it are patented. And flash video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs.

The following tutorial shows exactly how to create a Web FLV player using H.264 coded files. Let’s have a look:

Step 1: Launch Moyea Web Player(which is a handy flash video player creator and customizer) and input H.264 coded files(H.264 coded MOV for example) or other flash video formats.(Click to learn how to convert to flash videos for free.)

Step 2: Click “Template” button and customize flash video player through the following options.
a. Click “Style” tab to choose a player skin.

b. Click “Options” tab to set other actions for player.

c. Click “AddOns” tab to choose plugin(s) for player.

d. Click “Misc” tab for other options, “background color”, for example.


Step 3: On “Publish” interface, choose a publish path, and then click “Publish” button to publish the customized player.

Step 4: Upload all the published files except the index.html file, to the same folder of a web server (you can easily search a free hosting on google). And then copy and past the embed code below into your own website, blog or forum.
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">Player will show here</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('mwplayer.swf','player','500','450','9');
so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
so.addParam('quality','high');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

It’s even easier now by just using the free FLV player embedded code and all you have to do is to replace the video link you are going to play inside the player. Enjoy!

Introduce How to Customize MOV FLV Player ( Flash video player )

FLV(Flash Video) is one of the most popular container file formats used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player, which is installed in 98% netizens’ computers and possible to embed flash video in different web pages.

The notable users of the flash video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, etc and many other news providers. However, FLV is not the only flash video format that supported by flash player because although the flash video container format itself is open, the codecs used with it are patented. Flash video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs. The most recent public releases of flash player also support H.264 video.

The brief tutorial below demonstrates exactly how to customize a flash video player using H.264 coded MOV files. Take a look:

Step 1: Download Moyea Web Player from playerdiy.com and launch it on your PC(Moyea Web Player is a handy flash video player creator and customizer) and input H.264 coded MOV files or other flash video formats.(Click to learn how to convert to flash videos for free.)

Step 2: Click “Template” button and customize FLV player through the following options.

a. Click “Style” tab to choose a player skin.

b. Click “Options” tab to set other parameters for player.

c. Click “AddOns” tab to choose plugin(s) for player.

d. Click “Misc” tab for other options, “background color”, for example.

Step 3: Publish the customized web FLV player and upload all the published files except the index.html file, to the same folder of a web server (you can easily search a free hosting on google). And then copy and past the embed code on the following interface into your own website, blog or forum.

Solutions to make flash video player consecutively play next flash video

If you are watching some TV series or flash videos online, of course you want to watch it one episode after another without interval.
This article is exactly about the options to play flash videos consecutively.

Option 1. Consecutive playing flash videos with Adobe Flash CS3.

This way is basically used to play flash videos consecutively with a few lines of code. Let’s have a look:

Step 1: Open Adobe Flash CS3 and import a FLV file.

Step 2: After inputting, rename the layer1 as “Object” and create layer2, rename it as “Action”. On the ActionScript layer, click the dot under the padlock icon. This will lock the ActionScript layer and prevent you from placing objects on it.

Step 3: Press “F9” to bring out the Actions panel and type the following lines of code.

import fl.video.*;

var myvideoarray:Array=new Array();

myvideoarray[0] = "video1.flv";

myvideoarray[1] = "video2.flv";

myvideoarray[2] = "video3.flv";

var k:Number = 0;

myvideo.play(myvideoarray[k]);

myvideo.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, loadnext);

function loadnext(myevent:VideoEvent):void {

k++;

if (k>= myvideoarray.length) {

k=0;

}

myvideo.play(myvideoarray[k]);

}

Enlarge picture of code:

Note: Replace “video1” “video2” “video3” with the actual names of FLV files you just input.

Step 4: Save the file in the same folder where you input FLV file at the first beginning.

Step 5: Click “Control” and then “Test Movie” from its drop-down menu to preview the effect.

Option 2. Consecutive playing flash videos with Moyea Web Player.

Use playerdiy.com, there are two easy ways to achieve the goal: by interface and by code.

Let’s start to show how by interface:

Step 1: Open Moyea Web Player and import flash videos.

Step 2: Click “Template” tab, then “Options”, check the box before “Auto choose next”.

Next, we will show you how to implement the above demo by code:

Moyea software just released free FLV players for those who have no web hosting to play flash videos in variety of formats. Just copy the Embeded Code and insert a line of code to make it play flash videos consecutively.

For example: the embeded code is shown below

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent" align="center"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('mwplayer.swf','player','500','450','9');
so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
so.addParam('quality','high');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('flashvars','playerOpts=autoChooseNext*true*b');
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

Note: the flashvars code highlighted in red is the code to make it play flash videos consecutively.

How to Make FLV Files ( Flash Video ) in Macromedia Flash 8

FLV(Flash Video) is a new video format which is perfectly supported by Macromedia Flash 8. This flash maker successfully solved the problem of the huge size of output SWF file that may not be played on Internet after inputting video file to flash. Let’s have a look below on how to make delicate FLV files:

1. How to make FLV files?　

Step 1. Open Macromedia Flash 8 and establish a new flash docment.

Step 2. Input AVI video files that you want to convert to FLV and follow the instructions.


Step 3. Keep the default setting for “Edit” and “Encode”, click “Import video” and then “Next step” and “Finish” at last to complete the inputting process.

Note: If you don’t have Directshow 9 and QuickTime 6.5 or higher installed in your system, a pop-up window will remind you to do so in order to import AVI successfully.

Step 4. Press “Ctrl+L” to open the data base, double click the AVI file just input, open “Embed video property” interface, click “Output” to create a FLV file.

Above 4 steps lead you to convert AVI to FLV successfully and after conversion, you will surprisingly find the final size of FLV is just 541KB, much smaller than the original 23MB AVI. Now you can use it freely on Internet>>>Convert video to FLV for free (free video to FLV converter)

2. How to use FLV files? (or make flash video player)>>>Customize a web FLV Player in the easiest way

Step 1. Establish a new flash document, press “Ctrl+F7” to open the “Components” window, drag “MediaPlayback” to the stage from “Media-Player 6-7”.


Step 2. Select “MediaPlayback”, press “Alt+F7” to open “Component Inspector” interface:


Some meanings of parameters in Component Inspector:
File Type: choose FLV as the defined file type, you can also choose to play MP3 file.

URL: specify the path of FLV files, because we put FLV files and Flash files in the same catalog, we only have to specify a file name here.

Control Placement: set the location of play panel.

Control Visibility: set the visibility of play panel.

Step 3. After settings, press “Ctrl+Enter” to test the performance.

Related article:
How to add flash video ( FLV ) to website?

Brand Your web-based Flash Video Player With Image

Summary:
This tutorial shows how to easily add an image logo to your flash video to brand it for your company or yourself, and publish it to website with customized web flash video player.

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You might noticed that a lot of videos on the Internet have an image logo. Some of this kind of logo is to beautify the video itself, while some is for commercial purpose. Regardless of any purpose, image logo in the video can actually customized your own FLV movie. Below text shows how to easily brand your web video with a tool called Moyea Web Player. It will refer to a plugin called Image Watermark Plugin.

What is Image Watermark Plugin:
It is a plugin that provided by Moyea Web Player. It enables users can add image to flash video so that they can brand and copyright their videos for publishing to the Internet. Supported formats of this plugin includes PNG, JPG, GIF and SWF file. Since version 2.0, Moyea Web Player begins to support this plugin.
From this page you can get more information of the plugin - http://www.playerdiy.com/configuration/addons/watermark-image.html

Where it appears:
After Moyea Web Player is installed, this plugin will appear on the following interface

Example:

This example below will show you how to implement this task step by step.

Step 1: Add a video into Moyea Web Player on “Media” interface.

Step 2: Click the image watermark pluin on “Addons” tab panel on “Template” interface, and then click “” button.

Click “browser” button to input an image into Moyea Web Player, and set the position at where it will show. Notice: 1. If the watermark is a SWF file, please check the “SWF” option. 2.The value of X-coordinate and X-coordinate can be a negative number. When both values are 0, the watermark will appear at the left top of player.

Step 3: Set the value of “Video list style” is none to remove the playlist and the embed code at the right of player

Step 4: Click “Publish” button on “Publish” interface. Then we could get a web player which is branded with your own image watermark.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

- Reshipment from my friend Toby's blog

If you are still regreting that you have missed one of the 3-D movies which being shown a couple of weeks ago called Aliens Vs Monsters, I have a good news to tell: another 3-D movie is coming soon on July, 09th, 2009 and It is the third installment of the Ice Age series, you are right, here comes the Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

It’s so cool to watch 3-D computer animated movie cause you feel you are also a part of the movie and that’s we what we call interaction. Thanks to the high-tech of movie making and gorgeous movie house, a pair of glass can bring you to another world created by Ice Age 3.

Newly-released Trailer of Ice Age3:

Player will show here

Want to put it to website? No problem, use the player above to easily add it to website with your own style flash video player.

Some Cute Wallpapers of Ica Age3:

Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 1:



Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 2: Ellie

Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 3: Sid


Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 4: Diego

Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 5: Manny

Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 6: Scrat

Ice Age 3 Wallpaper 7: Scratte