Ballectro

Published May 21st, 2002 in: Flash

The application is located under 'Research documentation' at: http://www.intermedia.uio.no/ballectro/

BALLECTRO

R&D Project

The work was commissioned by InterMedia at The University of Oslo, as part of a new media research and development programme they have going down there. The programming was mostly done in Flash 5, but as soon as I saw that the new Flash MX finally had video implemented, I exported the whole thing to MX in one night. The whole application took about three weeks to complete. All data is loaded from a simple XML-document, which was a definite requirement for this project. Idea being that the documentational research material will be easy accessible for another, or possibly several more applications in the future.

BALLECTRO

Prototype

The application goes under the term PROTOTYPE, and is definitely not intended for the general public as is, so please bear over if some functions appear a bit too hidden. Hints: When playing a video, try pressing some keys on your keyboard (f, space, comma, period, enter, h, +, - ). Also try the arrow-keys for scrolling. Backbutton should also work on most browsers.

Experimental Navigation

From a usibility standpoint there are a few things I would do differently on this type of application, but the project group at InterMedia had some very specific ideas they wanted to try out. The three layer matrix for Dance, Media and Learning being one of them. I don't think this is a particularly good way of separating the content, because it interferres with the videonavigation, which can be somewhat confusing to the user. Another thing I have issues with is the hidden navbar on the videoplayer. Oh well, maybe I'll make a 'developers version' someday...

Flash MX

Anyway, I'm so excited about the current Flash MX upgrade, and I really think/hope we're going to see some major sites starting to utilize flash for inline video. I also hope to see more videomaterial published to the web in the SWF format, so that people can start building some serious videoapps for the web. The video codec is delivered by Sorenson. It's definitley not optimal for larger screensizes yet, but I'm sure this will be tackled by Macromedia in the coming years.

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