In this week’s web design video blog, Nick and James conclude the 2 part tutorial of creating a fading slideshow in Flash. This week’s web design tip for business owners relates to utilising phone numbers. You can read the supporting blog post at: www.crearedesign.co.uk
About FLV Video (Flash Video)
Flash Video (*.FLV ) is a container file format used to deliver video over the internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–10 (developed by Macromedia). Flash Slideshow Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. FLV videos are widely used by international companies, including include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers. Flash Video could be watched on most operating systems, via the Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin, or desired third-party FLV Players.
Easy Guides to FLV Slideshow with Music
Step 1: Import Photos&Video and Music for FLV Slideshow
FLV slideshow is a suitable way to share photos and videos online due to its small size and reasonable quality. After starting the FLV slideshow maker, go to Slideshow tab and import your photos, videos and music files. Transitions between every adjacent slides will be used. But you can change them by following step 2.
Step 2: Apply Transition and Motion Effect
More than 100 transition effects could be specified to desired slide. Before applying, double-click transition thumbnail to preview in the beside player. You could also randomize transitions or apply one transition to all slides in FLV slideshow.
Step 3: Save Photo Slideshow to FLV Video
Select Flash Video format as the output and make advanced settings by clicking Settings button. Finally, click Start and wail a while, you get your FLV video to sharing on Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, Mobile Phone. Alternatively, play FLV video on computer via stand-alone FLV player.
FLV Slideshow Tips:
1. For more detailed settings of FLV slideshow, click Settings button and specify various options, like encoder, resolution, frame rate, bit rate and audio settings.
2. To play FLV slideshow on Nokia mobile phone, you should set encode type to Nokia FLV series (*.flv). Once created, upload flv to Nokia phone or online and view FLV slideshow using FLV player or web browser plugin.
3. You could also upload FLV slideshow to Youtube to share with more people. FLV videos are perfectly supported by Youtube.
Convert All Popular Formats to FLV
Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder supports all popular video formats. Therefore, you can import videos that need to change format, and save it in another format. It’s not only a DVD slideshow maker, but only powerful FLV converter. For detailed supported input formats, check video format references.
Convert FLV to MP4, AVI, MOV, MPEG or Burn FLV to DVD
You could also import FLV to DVD Slideshow Builder and save it as MP4, AVI, MOV and 3GP, or even burn FLV video to DVD. Download Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder to make FLV slideshow as well as convert all popular formats of videos to any format you want. For detailed supported output formats, check video format references. Here, I recommended to save FLV to MP4 for its comprehensive support on various devices, such as iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Gphone, Nokia phone, LG phone, PSP, Palm, Zune, etc.
Useful Tutorials:
This tutorial will show you how to add Flash slideshow on Google Blogger with flash photo gallery software. It is easy and interesting that the process need no flash or XML skills at all. Simple 3 steps will make your blog more attractive and stunning.
Step 1: Make Flash slideshow SWF file.
Firstly, please make your Flash slideshow file (.swf). If you have no idea about this,please learn how to make flash slideshow file at first.
Step 2: Upload Flash slideshow SWF file to Internet.
Upload the Flash SWF file to any web hosting, and get the URL address of the Flash SWF file. If you don’t have a web host, you can upload your flash file to Google Sites(sites.google.com) for free. First sign in with your Gmail account and create a new site.
And then upload the SWF file to the Attachments.
Finally, right click your uploaded file, select “Properties” and copy the URL in “Address” item.The URL should be like this: http://www.yoururl/banner550.swf
Step 3: Embed Flash SWF to your Blogger post.
The final step is to embed the Flash SWF to your Blogger post. Open your blogger editor, switch to the ”Edit Html” mode, then copy the following code to any of the sections in your post.
<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowScriptAccess=”never” allowNetworking=”internal” height=”264″ width=”550″ data=”http://www.flash-slide-show.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf”>
<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”never” />
<param name=”allowNetworking” value=”internal” />
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.flash-slide-show.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf” />
<param name=”quality” value=”high” />
</object>
Please don’t forget to revise the URL in red of the above code to your own URL. You can also revise the width and height of your flash gallery as you like: just need to revise the red value in the above code.
Get the free flash galler software of Flash Gallery Factory to get start now!And add Flash slideshow on Blog.
Tips:
You could also upload your flash photo gallery,3D flash gallery, flash banner, flash album to MySpace, the method is the same way.
Create free xml swf slideshow with thumbnails and custom background
This xml swf slideshow tutorial is mainly about how to use free xml gallery template to create xml swf slideshow with thumbnails and custom background. If you can’t master the xml based tutorial, please try flash slideshow maker which can create best flash slideshow and photo gallery without xml or flash skills.
The xml swf slideshow tutorial includes the following 4 steps:
Step 1: Download free xml swf slideshow template
Download free xml swf slideshow template (it is provided by flash-gallery.com) and unzip it. The package should include images folder,gallery.xml file and slideshow.swf file.
Open slideshow.swf file to see the original samples as below picture:
Step 2: add photos and custom background image
Choose your favorite digital photos and add to image folder. If you want to change a background image, please set its name as “bg”, such as “bg.jpg”, and then delete the original one.
Step 3: Edit XML file for adding digital photos
Open gallery.xml file with a text editor, such as Dreamweaver MX. You will notice that all images are described with the following XML tags. You can place as many images as you want by copy and paste the ;item; tag. You just need to revise the red value of “source” attribute to your own photo name.
You can also add captions for your photos by revise the blue value of “description” attribute. The “link” attribute is for previewing your photos.
Step 4: Upload your xml swf slideshow on website
Copy and past the following HTML code to your website, such as MySpace, Blogger. So long as your website support HTML code, you can put it anywhere as you like. Don’t forget to revise the red URL blow to your own URL. See more about how to upload flash to website.
another Easy Way to Create Flash Slideshow without xml skills
Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory is an easy to use flash slideshow software which can create animated flash slideshow, 3D flash photo gallery, website photo album without XML or flash skills at all. all the processes are automatically and instantly , you just need to move your fingers to click some buttons in the software.
Simple steps for making flash slideshow without xml skills:
Setp 1: add your digital photos ; music to Flash Gallery Factory; Setp 2: Choose photo slideshow template or just custom your own template; Setp 3: Ouput and save the gallery as SWF or HTML format.
This tutorial is mainly about how to make flash picture slideshow and then embed it on MySpace for sharing with more people. What you need are some pictures in the format of BMP/JPEG/JPG/PNG/GIF and a picture slideshow maker. Here I choose Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder to make flash picture slideshow for MySpace for I have made one before and I found the picture slideshow maker is so easy and powerful, so I introduce it to you.
So the tutorial will include two parts:
1. How to make flash picture slideshow 2. How to embed picture slideshow on MySpace
Now let’s begin to make flash picture slideshow first.
Step 1: Install picture slideshow maker and import pictures
Download picture slideshow maker and install it. And then the program will go to “Browse” Tab by default. You can select your pictures in your computer, and then drag them into the storyboard or click the left icon of the “Add Photo” button. You can also click “Add Music” button to add background music as you like.
Step 2: Select template for your picture slideshow
Wondershare Flash Slideshow maker includes 75+ free slideshow templates to meet your various requirements. You can choose your favorite one to make picture slideshow. You can preview your pictures in the selected template.
Step 3: Add transition effects and pan/zoom effects
Wondershare picture slideshow maker provides 210+ transition effects and 10+ pan/zoom effects for you to make your picture slideshow more animated and attractive. You can preview the effects in the right screen.
You can also set effects and picture duration by double click on time in storyboard:
Step 4: Publish and save on computer
Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder provides various output formats, so you can publish your flash picture slideshow as SWF, HTML or EXE formats as you like. For Uploading on website, please publish it as SWF or HTML format.
Step 5: Add flash picture slideshow on MySpace
Upload the created SWF file to any web hosting and get the address of the file. If you don’t have a personal web host, you can upload your SWF file to sites.google.com for free.
Then login MySpace and start to write new post. Then click the “HTML” button to switch to HTML mode for it’s on Design mode by default.
Copy and paste the following html code in the post body and revise the two URL in red to the real address of your SWF file. You may change the red numbers “264″ and “550″ to revise the size of your picture slideshow too.
<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowScriptAccess=”never” allowNetworking=”internal” height=”264″ width=”550″ data=”http://www.flash-slide-show.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf”>
<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”never” />
<param name=”allowNetworking” value=”internal” />
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.flash-slide-show.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf” />
<param name=”quality” value=”high” />
</object>
Done! Let’s see our great work. Wanna a try? Download picture slideshow maker now and make your own MySpace picture slideshow in minutes.
Supported Input Format
Photos: BMP / JPEG / JPG / PNG / GIF
Music: MP3 / WMA / WAV
Operating System: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
