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Say Hello To The Avatar Interactive Trailer

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

A while back I took part in a project with The PPC to build a ‘different’ microsite for the (then) new film Avatar. I don’t know what happened to this project, I spent a good while optimising and refactoring to get it running really smoothly but then I got paid and I didn’t hear anything else. It seems that it may not have gone out in time, which is a really shame cos it’s awesome! Anyway, have a look, tell me what you think.

Monetising Your Video Player With Tremor Media/Acudeo Ad Manager

Monday, September 7th, 2009

While doing my stint at ESP, helping out on 1Click2Fame.com, I was asked to integrate advertising into the custom player I had built for them. A long debate followed about what sort to use and, personally, I prefer in-video advertising, but they chose to go with pre/mid/end rolls. Not a problem I said.

The component that I was going to use was developed by Tremor Media/Acudeo. All I was given was a SWC and an example FLA, pretty perfect I thought.

It turned out that there was a problem: the preroll component can’t be compiled on a Mac, or so I was told. Now can’t isn’t something that runs easily with me. I’ll try anything, and would rather fail than not to try at all. And the result of all this was very encouraging.
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Authenticating And Uploading A Video To YouTube

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Update: I’ve added a nice little example below and all the code is up on Github.

So, I’ve been working on a simple tool that outlines how easy it is to upload a video to YouTube through your own web application.

Before you read this tutorial, it’s worth going through the YouTube GData API.

Now you may be asking yourself: “why would anyone need this?”, well think about this scenario:
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Introducing 1Click2Fame.com

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Here it is, this is what I’ve been working on for the past two months! It’s the new web site for 1Click2Fame.com where, and I quote, “finding fame is the name of the game”.

It’s owned by the company Enrich Productions and I was bought in to build them a Flash video player and also little bits of Flashy stuff here and there including the home page carousel and the competition count-down timer. More stuff to follow!
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Security Sandbox Violation Getting You Down?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

When working with Flash Player you will come across this error one time or another:

*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
SecurityDomain ‘http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/cps-vfl104716.swf’ tried to access incompatible context ‘http://www.youtube.com/v/fXldKmGuPqM &autoplay=0&loop=0&rel=0&showsearch=0&hd=1′

And it may not necessarily be for YouTube (as the above error is).
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Creating a Video Player in Actionscript 3

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

So I’ve been working on creating a fully fledged player for the web site 1Click2Fame.com. A lot of people who have been following me on twitter have been asking me to publish my code, so here’s what you’ve all been waiting for.

This isn’t just your average FLV video player. I’m not going to go into great depths on creating stuff like the stop button, the seek bar and what not, I believe in creating clean and reusable code, so this tutorial is more about creating a great chromeless player API and then allowing you to go crazy with the UI.
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Actionscript 3 Cue Points

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Today I was working on finalising the video player for the competition web site 1Click2Fame.com. Since this video player will be multi purpose, for example, it will be used as a “chromeless” style player but may also have a “chrome” where the user can interact by voting for acts and so on, it needs the ability to record metrics such as user interaction and more importantly cue points.

The team at 1Click2Fame.com are not only interested in seeing what video a user watched, but how long they watched it for, especially if they voted for or against it winning. So cue cue points!
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More tutorials

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I’ve been meaning to write a quick tutorial on how to create a simple carousel style gadget. I’ve been putting this off for a while as I haven’t had time, but I thought that I may as well just get on with it and knock one out! Also, lots of people have been searching for code on my site regarding the creation of YouTube gadgets, especially the ‘coverflow’ style one.

At the moment, I’ve got a deal going with the authors of Flashtuts+ whereby I write articles and tutorials for them. It’s good as it gets more coverage than just putting them here and it means that I get lots of exposure too.

I’ve currently had two published, Understanding the PureMVC Open Source Framework and Using the YouTube Player API with ActionScript 3.0 and a third one should be published soon on creating a simple YouTube Search and Play gadget.

When it comes to expanding on the tutorials, errata and updates, I’ll always publish them here. I’ll also be putting up snippets of code and just little tips here and there.

And of course, any code that I do that’s useful but it’s big enough for a tutorial, I’ll stick it up on here!

So bare with me, there’ll be lots of content coming up very very shortly!

YouTube Contest API Tutorial – Coming Soon!

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I’ve been looking at the stats for my blog and it seems a lot of people are searching for content about the YouTube Contest API. Now I know that there aren’t any external facing docs or tutorials, so I will write one up very soon on how to use it! I promise!

It’s Been a Good Long Week

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

And it’s not quite over, yet! This week I started a new contract at ESP (also known as Enrich Productions) working primarily on their main project called 1Click2Fame.com. It’s a really beautiful concept and one that I hope to help as much as I can in. If you’re not quite sure what the site’s about, here’s a quick blurb:

“The online talent contest where the UK’s best battle it out to win prizes and fame.You watch, you vote, you decide who wins our weekly prizes to take talent to the next stage.”

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