Using the Video Component in Flash CS3

Video Transcript

"This is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village in the last clip I showed you how to directly import a video which converts it to a flash video. In this clip I'm going to show you how to just set up a video component, now you want to bring up your components which is under window, components and go under the video section, VLV playback. Now you already would to have create your flash video you could of done this with your batch convert which I'm going to show you in another clip. So you grab this you just drag it to your stage and you can see it brings it up and then you want to go to parameters, so you bring up your parameters which is also under window, component inspector. There's your parameters now there's many things you can set here in auto play, auto rewind, your buffer time and right here it says content path. This is where you set the movie that you want to play in here so you want to click here and you can choose on your computer where your file is, choose this one, and of course you can set it to match, the dimensions of this file. We'll have that selected and as you can see it changed the size of the movie, and once you have everything set here you can also change the skin here once you have everything set you can just close that down. And your flash movie is ready to play inside a flash and that's how you set up a flash movie using the movie component in flash CS3, I'm Bill Macpherson for Expert Village."