Building a Video Presentation with Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 Media Components

Imagine creating web applications that synchronize video with animation, text, and graphics—in minutes, without programming. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional provides a suite of new streaming media tools that makes this possible. This article showcases these tools as you learn how to build an interactive video presentation.
These streaming media tools feature three new components: Media Display, Media Controller, and Media Playback. In addition to these components, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 includes several behaviors that help connect media components to each other and to the rest of your application. (For those of you who are new to Macromedia Flash MX 2004, behaviors are a new construct that automatically attach predetermined code to a movie clip or component instance.)
Here’s a short description of each of the three media components.