I can’t stop playing with the new video features. Some people smoke. Some people drink. I sit around doing Flash video. In this example an external FLV has embedded cue points. When a cue point is fired, I play another external FLV that has an embedded alpha channel. I also position the explosion FLV based on information in the cue points.
There needs to be a 12-step program for this,
Lee
i smoke. drink. AND do flash video. and i’m a public school teacher. that’s just not right.
thanks for all the help and inspiration.
man that guy is seriously getting destroyed, not only by the other fighter but by all those cannon explosions around him!
Until now I’ve been using Captionate by Burak in order to work with flash video and cue points:
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=122
Now the Flash 8 Video Encoder enables you to embed more metadata such as cue points (as you show in your example), which I think is a fantastic feature.
Yeah it is such a great feature. Plus the ability to use embedded or actionscript cue points is great as well. Embedded are great for super accurate events and the actionscript ones are ideal for closed captions.
Awesome….I have experimented with cue points but not as deep as you and have only basic grasp of Actionscript:
Would you be able to provide a download file showing how to simply trigger an active hyperlinked URL when a cue point is detected in the flv?
It would be very helpful.
Just what I am looking for I would love to see the actionscript behind it
Woud love love love LOVE to see the actionscript for this!!
Hello!
I’m new to Flash Video and am trying to do the same sort of thing with Cue points, but with all the tutorials, I can seem to get it. Would you be willing to send me your actionscript for this file so I can rework it to fit mine?
thanks.
This is exactly what ive been looking for… anychange sharing scripts?
Hey man,
I am trying to do this and cannot figure out how to get the cuepoints to load
external swfs. I’ve got it to the point where all the cuepoints are traced on output but I can’t get them to load the swfs.
Could you helpp me out.
thanks,
thats some pretty funny vid.
oh and by the by..can anyone tell me how to do a cue point to return to a maon menu???..im doing this presentation where i click on a link ..a flv popsup…i want it to go back to main menu when it finishes playing..anyone? any good deeders out there? email sharif at sharifali dot net
Hey Lee, Using embedded Cue Points from Squeeze loaded via NetStream and discovered that the cue point timing is offset by the number that I set for the buffer, ever experienced that issue or have any fixes?
Hi There
Are there any examples on using Cue points in flash 8, like targeting Movie clips or Flv files.
Hey cool explosions, I am trying to find a tutorial on how to use cue points. I am trying to build an application that will play random ads and then load an external video. I have no idea where to start. I have Flash CS3 and this project will be great once it is finished, just getting if off of the ground is taking more than I thought. Thanks. Any help would be greatly apprciated.
I am trying to find a tutorial on how to use cue points.
that load external swf or flv files,
I am trying to find a tutorial on how to use cue points.
that load external swf or flv files, I can load the external file but I am having problems unloading the file.
can you help…
Hi Lee
I also would like to know how to do this and other things with FLV and images in flash, please if you can, let me know where I can find the info to do this with cuepoints
thanks a lot
al
What I love is that I get to watch this at work because I’m “enriching myself on Flash Cue Points.”
Thanks. Great example! Can you provide the code for this example?
Looks really cool. Here is another vote for the code. I am utterly unable to get embedded cue points to work in my video player, and would love an example.
you can try flash video mx pro, it can add image and text subtitle for your flash video with cue point, it works great for me
Hey Lee…
I’ve been watching all of your tutorials on lynda.com (you’re one of the best speakers, by the way) and your gotoandlearn.com site and this is the demo I’ve been looking for. I need to know how to make external flv’s trigger movie clips and animations to appear on the same timeline as the flvPlayer (without the flvPlayer having to be inside of a movie clip). Is that possible?
Thanks,
Jackie
recently I was using a flash video encoder tool to add subtitle with cue point at any timeline, and choose to generate flv/swf with flash 8 alpha video codec, the demo is similar as you show in your example, free download it here
http://www.flash-video-soft.com/flash-video-mx-sdk/
Hope that can help someone a little
hey lee, can you post up the source code how to do this as everyone is asking, it will everyone out.
pretty please…
yeah, thanks. be nice if you’d put a bloody stop button on it though.
Here’s a simple, but fine script to add cuepoints to your flv to trigger actions.
Import an flv to the stage and call it flvmovie.
flvmovie.addASCuePoint(2, “cue1″);
flvmovie.addASCuePoint(4, “cue2″);
flvmovie.addASCuePoint(6, “cue3″);
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.cuePoint = function(eventObject:Object):Void {
if (eventObject.info.name == “cue1″) {
_level0.moviec1._x = 100;
}
if (eventObject.info.name == “cue2″) {
_level0.moviec1._x = 200;
}
trace(“Elapsed time in seconds: “+flvmovie.playheadTime);
trace(“Cue point name is: “+eventObject.info.name);
};
flvmovie.addEventListener(“cuePoint”, listenerObject);
rampage got beatup badd LOL
Erik,
I’m a novice at scripting, but how can I edit your script so all I need to do is to have the script know that when the movie ends, it then goes to another frame?
Thanks.