The hotFlashVideo extension allows you to easily add interactive hotspots to your Flash Video without embedding a heavy .flv into your SWF file. This allows you to take full advantage of the FLV format's streaming capabilities. Prior to the creation of this tool, the only way to add hotspots to Flash Video was to embed an .flv into a SWF or to create an interactive overlay using some very advanced ActionScripting skills and techniques. This tool automatically creates the interactive overlay and adds it to the .flv. The hotspots in the interactive overlay can be authored to move in sync with objects that reside in the video and trigger button events.
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Move your mouse over the hot air balloons in the video below to see the captions of each balloon.
This example shows an FLV movie with hotspots over each character. Click on the characters to read information about them.
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- Author all within Flash
No importing or exporting from other software programs required. - Automatically creates project file for you in seconds
Simply select an FLV from your computer and click the Create button and your project file is created within seconds. - Easily add FLV to Flash media player of choice
Select any of the media players included with Flash. - Little to no Actionscript required for basic interactivity
Generates 95% of ActionScript needed for interactivity - Add hotspots to any FLV
No need to re-encode. The extension allows you add an interactive overlay to any existing FLV file. - Easily edit hotspots via Hotspot Editor
Hotspots are not permanent and are easily edited via the Hotspot Editor. - FLV does not reside in SWF
SWF file remains small and lightweight, typically less than 150k in total size. - Stream via Flash Communication Server
Take full advantage of the FLV formats streaming capabilities
Screenshot showing how hotspots are added in an overlaying layer.
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Screenshot showing how to add actions to hotspots.
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Screenshot showing the hotFlashVideo start and edit panels.
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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8 for authoring (Windows or Mac). Movies using this component may be published for either Flash Player 7 or 8, ActionScript 2.0.
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