With a cross-platform player proliferation of more
than 90 percent, Flash video??™s accessibility outweighed its drawbacks. Adobe built on the intense interest
generated by the early player??™s capabilities and improved the video output and experience with each subsequent
release. Video output by the current version, Flash Professional CS3, is certainly as good as video
displayed by any other Web method??”and, in many ways, superior.
Any Dreamweaver Web designer or developer has the power to easily incorporate high-quality video into
any site. Ease of entry is a key factor and Dreamweaver makes it drop-in simple; designers can even gain the
majority of benefits of Flash video without incurring the additional expense of a specialized server. For
those clients and projects that require a higher-end experience, Flash offers a streaming alternative. As you
learn later in this chapter, Dreamweaver??™s Insert Flash Video feature handles either option easily.
Encoding video
To incorporate Flash video on your site, you??™ll need to first acquire the video, either by importing it directly
from a digital camcorder or by retrieving a file in a video format, like .avi, .mpg, .mov, or .wmv. After
you have a video file, you??™ll need to convert it to a Flash Video file (FLV) in a process called encoding.
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