Greetings all, and please excuse the long posting,
I have a Flash project and I could really use some advice. I need to produce a banner for a retail client (729 x 180) that will sit atop their page. Basically, they want is to show four products that fade in and out, one after another. No problem. But they also would like four pieces of stock video playing in the background that relates to each of the products. For instance, one of the products is a coffee/cappuccino maker, beneath which they would like this four-second video of coffee beans being scooped out of a wooden barrel blurred under the product. The four products are the coffee maker, golf club, watch and a GPS, so each product will have some sort of video beneath it that some how relates to that product. So far, the videos are already in flv format, but I could purchase QuickTime versions if I need to.
As I said, there are four products. But also, along the left side of the banner in a single column will be four buttons, which a user needs to be able to click in order to jump directly to one of the four products in the banner animation. However, if no buttons are clicked, the animation needs to loop through each product and its corresponding video background, cross-dissolving from one to the next. Of course, each product needs to be linked to its corresponding page in the site, but again, that’s not a problem.
I’ve looked at embedding the video, but that of course jacks the file size up to over half-a-meg … just for the banner! Probably the best way to do this through actionscripting is to place the videos externally in an array and have them called in, but this is something I’m not sure how to do, plus I’m not sure how I would sync he videos with the products floating over the background.
I’m kind of lost here, and was hoping someone could at least point me in the right direction. OOP and AS3 totally confuse me; I do have some AS2 experience, but as I said my experience is limited. For instance, I’ve used arrays before, but only with the help of tutorials and/or someone else’s code where I (barely) figured out enough to get the code to something that I needed it to do. Any help/advice/suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
Thank you for your time!
