December 11, 2009 - 9:40 am
Posted in Cool stuff, Flash Platform | 4 comments
There’s a good chance you immediately recognized the game in this screenshot. Over 28 million people played Farmville yesterday. Another 10 million played Cafe World. 6 million for FishVille Mafia Wars (Mafia Wars is not a Flash Game. Thanks Robert for pointing that out!). In fact, Zynga alone (maker of these games) serves 60 million players every [...]
December 9, 2009 - 3:47 pm
Posted in Flash Platform, devices, iPhone, mobile | 18 comments
Write once, deploy anywhere. Sounds nice, no? Sadly it’s not really a reality today. The currently available technologies are very fragmented and today there is no technology out there that makes that dream a reality.
I have a strong feeling that is going to change dramatically in 2010. Some will disagree or say that I am [...]
November 26, 2009 - 9:08 am
Posted in adobe | 6 comments
I’m sure it won’t shock you when I say that Adobe software is used extensively in Hollywood. Avatar, James Cameron’s new movie, is no exception. So which Adobe software did they use and how?
PHOTOSHOP was used during the early conceptual stages to create art for getting the film green-lit by FOX. In addition to being [...]
November 13, 2009 - 9:26 am
Posted in Flash Platform, adobe | 2 comments
Earlier this week, Kevin Lynch was a guest at NewTeeVee Live. He talks about Flash on TVs, the future of the Flash Platform. He also talks about how open Adobe has become and was also asked about his stance on HTML5.
November 13, 2009 - 8:32 am
Posted in gallery | 2 comments
Just about every week, I come across many cool sites and applications. To showcase these apps and sites, I’ve created a new category on my blog: The Gallery. The Gallery will be a place to showcase cool and innovative Flash applications and sites.
The HBO Imagine site is a great one to kick off this new [...]
November 4, 2009 - 10:41 am
Posted in Flash Platform | 12 comments
Rob Ford’s Tweet this morning caught my attention. “We need 1 day when the Flash player is disabled just to appreciate how it lights up the web“, he said. I completely agree… We’ve become so accustomed to Flash just being there that we no longer realize how much it is used and how it “lights [...]
October 16, 2009 - 1:38 pm
Posted in AIR, Flash Player | 5 comments
Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the performance and stability of the Flash Player and AIR runtimes. I got another one just this morning and thought it would be a good idea to write a quick blog post about this.
Let’s talk about Flash Player first. In all honesty, I also encounter the [...]
October 5, 2009 - 7:08 am
Posted in Flash Platform, MAX2009 | 4 comments
With the day 1 keynote wrapping up, Adobe MAX 2009 has now officially started. While most of the announcements in today’s keynote were already sent out last night, the biggest announcement was probably a very big surprise to many. The first time I heard this news a few weeks ago, I nearly fell off my [...]
September 23, 2009 - 12:06 pm
Posted in Flash Platform, open screen project | 5 comments
At Intel’s Developer Forum Engadget recorded a demo of an Intel (an Open Screen Project partner) based set-top box running a Flash based user interface and Flash based applications. The heart of this set-top box is Intel’s CE 3100 Media Processor which according to Engadget “combines an 800MHz Pentium M core with a proprietary video processing [...]
September 23, 2009 - 9:53 am
Posted in Events, Flash Catalyst | 2 comments
At Flash On The Beach in Brighton this week my colleague Andrew Shorten talked to a number of Flash designers and developers, asking their thoughts on how Flash Catalyst might impact their workflow for producing rich Internet applications. Here’s the video from those conversations.
November 13, 2009 - 6:49 pm
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this Serge.
Do you think there is a way to get face motion tracking in Flash, and create the experience at runtime, thus allowing people to upload video and replace with their face?
Thanks,
iBrent
November 13, 2009 - 6:57 pm
In theory, yes… But the result will not be as tight as doing the motion tracking in After Effects. In theory, the user could select a color to track. You could then track that color with some ActionScript but the result greatly varies based on various factors like CPU and how unique that color is in that video… I would not recommend it…
November 13, 2009 - 7:22 pm
Hi Serge,
I’m a Flex engineer here at JibJab and actually the person who built our ‘Starring You’ head tracking technology.
I definitely appreciate your kind words and your interest in how we built ElfYourself.
Best,
Jamie
November 16, 2009 - 4:07 pm
looks so easy the way you explain it, good job :)
I already did some motion tracking work with AE in the past … very powerfull stuff.
November 23, 2009 - 4:32 pm
Great tutorial, how they make a moving path to use in choose a face?
November 24, 2009 - 3:30 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. Really great stuff! Elf Yourself is really fun and I do get requests for this kind of work – so this is a great help.
My next problem is my clients usually want to be able to share this thru YouTube, etc…
Any suggestions how to output this as shareable video instead of flash? Are there tools for this? I have been hitting a lot of dead ends searching.
December 2, 2009 - 5:52 pm
Great tutorial:
I have problem creating markers in After effect.
Im selecting in track point a attach point but when i create a markers and click to see a information of marker not create a name and when I export work flash never read a track point.
Only need know,
Why the function convert selected properties to marker.jsx not create a markers name?
December 2, 2009 - 6:06 pm
Not sure what is going wrong there. Will check with a colleague in the morning.
December 14, 2009 - 1:46 pm
Hi and thx for the tutorial.
do you know if it’s possible to get an updated version of the script “convert properties to markers” since the one provided with cs4 doesn’t name markers so it doesn’t work on flash ? or maybe you know where to find it, the original link on the adobe blog posted by Coleman doesn’t work. Or maybe you’ve find another solution to bypass the issue.
December 14, 2009 - 1:54 pm
Not sure what is going on with that script. My machine has a fresh install of CS4 so should be exactly the same as yours…
December 14, 2009 - 3:31 pm
I work on a pc, maybe this is the difference. I’ve managed the problem modifiyng the jsx file myself by replacing line 48 with :
existingMarker.cuePointName = existingMarker.cuePointName;
instead of :
existingMarker.cuePointName = time; which was naming each marker with the current time. so now you have to create the first market, name it as you wish then apply the script to it and all the markers will be named as the first one, so it will go fine on flash.
December 14, 2009 - 4:06 pm
Serge, regarding your tutorial, do you know a way to convert the tracker point 2 rotation informations to rotation ?
December 17, 2009 - 12:19 pm
It’s not working… I tried everything… Every flv has some cuePoint error (and I tried more then 40 video files until now).
I believe the problem is the “Convert Selected Properties to Markers.jsx” file.
December 17, 2009 - 8:16 pm
For those having problems with the script, please make sure that you have updated your version of After Effects to the latest available version. Use the Adobe Updater to make sure you have the latest version.