Study Guide for February 25 Quiz

Snorg Tees After Effects project rendered to FLV
FLash Video FLV played by the FLVPlayback component
Publishing your Flash application to sunny.uni.edu and uploading using SSH Secure Shell
FLV, SWF, FLA, AEP, SkinUnderAll.swf, source, what is the URL

1. This is the STUDY GUIDE for the Friday, February 25th quiz. Many of you will be able to email your assignment to jacobson@cs.uni.edu later on Friday, but you have until Monday evening (02/28) at 11 p.m. to email the URL, if you need it.
2. Watch the Camtasia SNORG to FLV video tutorial again. How to do the SNORG tee shirt sequenced layers assignment, including how to create the FLV FLash Video, i.e. how to RENDER out the FLV version of your After Effects Composition to it can eventually be published on the web. This video was part of the study guide for a previous quiz: QuizFeb16th2011.txt and you already have watched it several times getting ready for your SNORG TEES assignment. There are also minute by minute notes to help you find certain topics: AEPtoFLVrender.pdf
3. Watch the 2nd Camtasia video: PublishFLA2sunny.html It starts with the FLV video we rendered out from After Effects. It teaches you step by step how to create the Flash application. We do this by authoriing a .fla (FLA = FLash Authoring document) that uses a FLVPLayback component with its source property set to our .flv Flash video. This allows anyone on the web to PLAYBACK our FLV video, once we get it uploaded to sunny.uni.edu. The uploading to sunny is shown and uses the ssh secure shell software. This video is 17 minutes long. It includes a PDF outline with minute by minute outline so you can easily find and review parts that you need to watch a 2nd or a 10th time. Here is the 5 page PDF: AE/sunnySSHandFLV.pdf
4. Study guide for the Friday, February 25th quiz is the above two video tutorials. Watch them, take notes, get more familiar with the terms and concepts and technques whether its the After Effects, the RENDER, the FLV versus SWF versus FLA versus HTML file issues, the URL for your project. Anything on either one of those tutorials is fair game. ANYTHING!
   1. The first Camtasia video was introduced and taught starting back on January 26th. See the first five weeks calendar.
   2. The second Camtasia video (from FLV to Flash to sunny.uni.edu) has always been available as LI List Item #3 from the following SNORG example page): http://www.uni.edu/jacobson/ae/soup/SoupOrSundae.html - Note that it uses the following files:

       1. SkinUnderPlaySeekFullscreen.swf       is the SKIN that is used.
       2. SoupOrSundae.html                     is the HTML web page that Flash PUBLISH created.
       3. SoupOrSundae.swf                      is the SWF movie that Flash Publish created.
       4. Tees.flv                              is the name I chose for the FLV that After Effects RENDERED out.
      
      
      Note the size (in bytes) of the four files:  5,968 bytes, 11,732 bytes, 59,495 bytes, and 2,295,785 bytes.
                                                   -----        ------        ------            ---------
                                                   SKIN SWF     HTML          SWF with          AE rendered FLV
                                                                              FLVPlayback
      
      -rw-r--r--   1 jacobson faculty     5968 Sep  9  2008 SkinUnderPlaySeekFullscreen.swf
      -rw-r--r--   1 jacobson faculty    11732 Feb  8  2010 SoupOrSundae.html
      -rw-r--r--   1 jacobson faculty    59495 Feb  6  2010 SoupOrSundae.swf
      -rw-r--r--   1 jacobson faculty  2295785 Feb  6  2010 Tees.flv
          
          Note:  Any SkinUnder SKIN choice for FLVPlayback requires you add 40 (actually about 38) pixels to the height
                 of the Flash Document (called the Flash stage - i.e. STAGE).   There is also a SkinOver group of choices,
                 but they cover up the bottom 40 rows of your FLV video, which can be a problem.
         
          The following FIVE JPG files were footage in the AE Project.  Then they were LAYERS in one single COMP.
          When the AE COMP was RENDERED to FLV, all the needed graphics and animation is stored in the FLV file, 
          which in this case is the Tees.flv 2,295,785 byte file.  The JPG files do NOT need to be uploaded to the sunny server.
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          I am disappointment in you're grammar.         
          Don't Cross the Streams
          I Like Turtles
          I am confused, oh wait, maybe I'm not.
          If Life Gives you Lemons - KEEP THEM - Because, Hey, Free Lemons
      

5. Look over the sample quizzes again from previous semesters. You will see some questions related to Flash and to After Effects RENDER QUEUE decisions and the Flash alignment panel, FLA, FLV, SWF and so on.