It is possible that you might prefer to make a skin look the way you want it to look, rather than the way that Adobe designed it to look. There are ways to make this happen. In addition to the preset skins used in previous recipes, you can also use individual component buttons to customize your skin.
Make sure that you have access to an FLV
file. If you completed the recipe for Encoding with the Adobe Media Encoder, you can use that FLV
. If you need an FLV
file, use short.flv
from theChapter 4 folder.
1. In Flash, create a new file by going to File | New (Cmd/Ctrl N).
2. Select Flash File (ActionScript 3.0), and hit OK.
3. Go to File | Import | Import Video.
4. Click Browse, navigate to the video file of your choice (such as
short.flv
), and hit Choose/OK.5. Leave Load external video with playback component selected. This is the best choice if sound is involved in your video and also helps with load time.
6. Click...