This lesson will allow you to embed a really fully-featured Flash Video player -- complete with Fullscreen Mode button -- into your iWeb site relatively easily.
The first step is to download our support files for this operation: ZIP File, 112kb. Now, bear in mind that we offer these files as sort of an exercise rather than as software that we support in any formal sort of way. The files are pretty straightforward to follow -- but everything you do with them is entirely at your own risk.
GeniusDV provides 'online training services' for a variety of video software programs. We use a nice tool called MouseLocator so students can easily see the mouse cursor. Better yet, the utility is free!
To install Mouse Locator, download MouseLocator.dmg from 2point5fish.com.
Click the Download Alternative Locator Graphics from the installation screen. This will open a web page with various mouse cursors that you can choose from. You can choose to download the gallery package or you can download an individual shape by right-clicking (control-clicking) the shape and downloading it. You will want to save it to the top level to the top level of the Pictures folder. If the mouse locator program is already active, close it and reopen it. It will find and load the new shape when it reopens.
After the installation is complete, the Mouse locator will appear as an icon in the Other section of the System Preferences as shown below. You activate it and set its parameters from here.
I like using the small red rectangle. I use the Always On setting when I teach.
Within the preferences, you can set the cursor to fade after the mouse is pushed. The (Show button clicks) setting causes a yellow circle to flash when the mouse button is pressed.
...into a fully-navigable 3D scene, letting you do things like this movie (download MOV):...without ever leaving Photoshop.
You can find more compression settings articles in our Supercharging Compressor series index.Note: There's something about me and GOP articles ... just as I did on the first part of this article, I seem to have accidentally published a blank draft a few hours ago. This is the finished version. My apologies.
Compressor, like most reasonably advanced MPEG2 compression tools, offers you some control over the size and structure of your GOPs. You'll recall from the first part of this article that 15-frame (1/2-second) GOPs are the norm for MPEG-2 video, and this is appropriate for a wide range of video types. Similarly, Compressor defaults to using a lot of "B"-frames -- those are the frames that take the least information to represent, but that depend most heavily on neighboring frames of video.
Read on for situations when you might want to change this around ...
FUEL
TV, the 24/7 action sports lifestyle network, has launched a new HD
streaming video player that features full-length episodes of the
network's premium shows in the highest quality video format available
on the internet today. The player, created by Move Networks, debuts on
FUEL TV's web site with HD versions of "The Great Ride Open" only
available at www.fuel.tv.
