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Flex Basics – The Script Tag
Grasping the simple things is often the hardest part to getting up and running with Flex. For example, a friend of mine who I’ve been trying to pull over from the dark side (.Net guy) asked, “I’ve got...
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ThumbGenie: An AIR Thumbnail Generator for MPEG4-AVC / SWF Files
One of the not so nice aspects of hosting your own Jing / Jing Pro videos is generating thumbnails that can be used for the “click-to-play” screen that viewers initiate video playback with. My current...
View ArticleConvert an ISO 8601 Date String to / from a Native AS3 Date Object
While making some improvements to my ilist metadata (iTunes MPEG4 style metadata) classes I ended up needing to convert an ISO 8601 date and time string to a native AS3 Date object and vice versa. An...
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ThumbGenie 1.1.0 Now Generates Embed Code
I updated ThumbGenie over the weekend to support generation of embed code. Now, every time you create a thumbnail from an MPEG4-AVC file or SWF embed code will be generated. ThumbGenie ships with a...
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ThumbGenie 1.2 Now Supports Bilinear Image Resampling (improved scaling in...
One of the things that’s sort of sucked about ThumbGenie has been the quality of scaled thumbnails. The 640×360 image below was generated from a 960×540 video frame. Notice the edge degradation...
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Bilinear Resampling, ShaderJob, Pixel Bender And Flash Player
*Update* Sometimes you’re an idiot and you spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel because you misread one little line of documentation. This is one of those times where I get to be that idiot. I...
View ArticleThumbGenie 1.3.0 Update = Designerfied
There’s an updated version of ThumbGenie in the wild that sports a new skin designed by Nick Gorsline (aka Gorz). It was the first Flex component skin for Nick and first Illustrator-to-Flex workflow...
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