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using Cue Points
Cue points are special markers that you place in your video that Flash can detect
with ActionScript. There are two ways to use cue points. Cue points can trigger
an ActionScript command, letting you synchronize the video with other Flash ele-
ments. Or, you can jump to particular cue points in the video with ActionScript.
Both types of cue points add more functionality to video.
In this section, you’ll add cue points to the zoo director video so relevant informa-
tion can be displayed on the Stage as he speaks.
inserting cue points
P Note: Recall that
you can add cue points
to video with Adobe
Media Encoder. You can
also add cue points to
video with ActionScript
in the Actions panel,
which is not discussed
in this book.
P Note: If the
FLVPlayback
component on the
Stage doesn’t show a
preview of the video,
right-click/Ctrl-click on
the video and make
sure that the Preview
option is selected.
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Lesson 8
There are four points in the zoo director video at which you’ll want to synchronize
the display of additional information. First, when he introduces himself, you’ll show
his name. Second, when he instructs the audience to click on a video, you’ll high-
light the videos. Third, when he refers to the sounds, you’ll highlight the sounds.
Fourth, you’ll add a cue point to mark the end of the video.
1 Select frame 50 (the first keyframe in which the zoo director video appears) of
the popupvideo layer.
2 Select the video of the zoo director on the Stage.
3 Click the play button on the skin and
pause the video when the zoo director
says, “…my name is Paul Smith.”
The numeric counter that displays
the elapsed time should read about
two seconds.
Working with sound and Video