Building Flash video projects: The Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder

Building Flash video projects: The Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder

Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder is a stand-alone video encoding application that lets you encode video in Adobe Flash video (FLV) format. The FLV format lets you easily incorporate video into a web page or Flash document in a format that can be viewed using Adobe Flash Player.

This quick start covers the following topics:

Introducing Flash video and Flash Video Encoder
Adding a video to the encoding queue
Customizing video encoding settings
Saving and loading encoding settings
Defining and embedding cue points
Saving and loading cue points to an external XML file
Cropping, trimming, and resizing video
Introducing Flash video and Flash Video EncoderFlash video is an integral part of the viewing experience, not a separate pop-up window that plays video externally and interrupts the experience. Flash treats Flash video as a media type; you can layer, script, and control video like any other object in a SWF file.

Flash Video Encoder lets you encode video files in either the On2 VP6 or Sorenson Spark video codecs. A codec is an algorithm that controls how video files are compressed during import and decompressed during playback. You can use Flash Video Encoder on a computer that does not have Adobe Flash CS3 Professional or other Adobe Creative Suite 3 software installed.

You can batch-process multiple video clips when you use Flash Video Encoder on a dedicated computer for video encoding.Batch processing produces an expedited workflow. For example, you can add, reorder, and change the encoding settings of files in the batch processing queue while Flash Video Encoder is encoding video files.

Note: The Flash Video Encoder can encode a video only if the following conditions are met:

You must encode either video or audio.
You can only have one cue point at a particular timecode.
Your final video size must be at least 32x32 pixels.
You must specify a video data rate when encoding video.

Adding a video to the encoding queueWhen configuring encoding settings, you can select individual files and specify different settings based on the type of video format and quality required for each file, or you can select multiple files and specify the same settings for all of them.

More about it :
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/video_encoder/