No Internet

Days of no internet access can be interesting and productive. I tried something today which I’d known about for years but never had the opportunity to try out – using Flash with movie files. I remember getting excited about the potential of this when Flash MX first came out in 2001 but it remained just that – potential. The exciting idea is that once imported into the Flash library, a film clip becomes an object just like any other type of object – graphic, text, Flash movie , which can then be animated on the stage and manipulated along the timeline. Mindblowing isn’t it? Embedding a film clip within a Flash movie may have efficiency benefits as well, it’s another option in the sometimes tortuous route from camera to web page.
So all I did as an initial experiment was to import the Hampton Court Maze movie ( you can see the original properly on the CuttySnark blog ) and place several copies of it on the stage at different sizes, offset a little along the timeline. It worked straight away, just like that, and I found the split-screen view effective so here it is.

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