Godzilla Files

I loved the idea of being able to make animated graphics with Flash, although I have only made two so far.  One the button which worked great providing I don't add the doorbell chime and the other was the pencil.  The button was killing me and I could not leave it alone and double checked my code as Katy's suggested.  So far it is still not working.  I have abandoned this for now and moved on.


So off to the next tutorial, which was how to make a video for the Web with Flash.  Super cool since I wanted to incorporate a video in my blog. This was going  to be a 4 minute presentation  heavy with graphics and other videos and some text and a soundtrack of me narrating.


I used Prezi, a presentation software to create the show and then used Jing to record the slideshow presentation with a soundtrack.  I really liked the way it turned out, but the file was huge 182MB large and it would not play smoothly on my blog.  I thought maybe it was the photos, but Prezi automatically compressed the images into smaller file sizes.  I found out from a friend that SWF are typically mega-large and are really not Web friendly for videos.  Now off to make the file smaller and optimize it for the Web.  I thought since Flash creates SWF files it might open them to make it editable.  It did not UGHHH!!!!  I scouted around for free software and found one that I was able to reduce the size to 30 MB.  Wow...now that's compression.


Here are the links to Prezi and Jing.   They are super neat tools that help with incorporating neat features to your blog or Web site.

Prezi Presentation

Jing Screen Capture