{"id":122,"date":"2002-12-13T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2002-12-13T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/12\/13\/behold-the-picture-moves-as-if-by-magic\/"},"modified":"2002-12-13T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2002-12-13T23:08:41","slug":"behold-the-picture-moves-as-if-by-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/13\/behold-the-picture-moves-as-if-by-magic","title":{"rendered":"Behold\u2013the picture moves as if by magic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just dis\u00adcov\u00adered the won\u00adders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/software\/flash\/\">Flash ani\u00adma\u00adtion<\/a>\u2013pret\u00adty cool stuff!<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the pic\u00adture of Paula and I on the top right of the page now con\u00adtains a playable video. <b>Just click on the green arrow in the pic\u00adture<\/b> so I can greet you and explain our vision for min\u00adistry!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still try\u00ading to get this Flash thing fig\u00adured out. In par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, I\u2019d like to have a mes\u00adsage pop up when your mouse moves across the pho\u00adto, so if any\u00adone out there is a Flash guru, I\u2019d love to learn from your wis\u00addom!<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re curi\u00adous about Flash your\u00adself, the three most help\u00adful sites I\u2019ve found are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/flash\/\">offi\u00adcial Macro\u00adme\u00addia Flash site<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashkit.com\/\">Flash Kit<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashcomponents.net\/\">Flash Com\u00adpo\u00adnents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I was shocked at how sim\u00adple it was to do.<\/p>\n<p>1) I set up my handy Log\u00aditech Web\u00adcam.<br>\n2) I down\u00adloaded the free beta copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/moviemaker\/downloads\/moviemaker2beta.asp\">Win\u00addows Movie Mak\u00ader 2<\/a> (which real\u00adly rocks, it\u2019s a legit\u00adi\u00admate com\u00adpeti\u00adtor with iMovie).<br>\n3) I winged it and then edit\u00aded it.<br>\n4) I import\u00aded it into Macro\u00adme\u00addia Flash MX.<br>\n5) I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/stories\/flashsatay\/\">Satay Method<\/a> to embed it in my page.<\/p>\n<p>I was done! Now I just need to learn a lit\u00adtle bit more about Flash (like how to ani\u00admate text) and reshoot my video to make it a lit\u00adtle tighter (like I said, I winged the script\u2013and I think it shows in one or two spots).<\/p>\n<p>Over\u00adall, though, I\u2019m pret\u00adty hap\u00adpy.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I tweaked the video (and was able to trim its size by 33%), so now I just need to decide how much more I want to do before I leave well enough alone\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in which I learn to use Flash MX (sort of).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}