I have a question and I hope I can write this down so that someone could understand. I have hard time doing understanding myself.
I have this site which is targeted to children, it is about teaching them to learn film editing. They will make six scenes. Each scene is built like this: First they will select from various still pictures how they want to build their version of the scene.
After they have selected 5-6 still pictures (these stills are previewed as fading slideshow) they can watch the whole scene as flash video. Then they will be directed to build a second scene. Step by step they build all six scenes. And tell the story forward.
There are hundreds of possibilities to make all of these scenes. My site is now about 2GB and made with HTML, flash video used only in film scene previews. Now client asks me, can the user of the site watch all the flash videos that he/she has made (6 of them, 6 scenes) as a whole movie.
My question and problem is this. How can I tell the site to remember all the six flash videos this particular user has made? So that in the end he/she can push the button that says “watch the whole movie”. How can I do this? Or can I?
Thi site can be used only with computers with mouse, because the selections are visualized via rollovers. Mobile devices are not supported.
This is not flash question, because this site is done with freeway and flash used only with video clips, because it is more widely supported than for example quicktime or WMV.
I am not allowed to publish this site yet. But if someone wants I can send the address via email.
Where is the “movie” being generated out of the chosen images? If it’s in the browser (in Flash), you would attack this one way, if it’s on the server, you need to tackle it another way. If the images and the final movie are presented to the visitor entirely within Flash (that is, if the server isn’t performing this step) then the movie only exists within the confines of the Flash element itself. You could make a page layout that had 6 Flash movies on it, but used JavaScript to only show them one at a time, and then showed all of them together on the page at the end. But that would be just showing and hiding the entire Flash element, not what I think you’re asking about here.
Walter
On Feb 13, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Janne Heinonen wrote:
My question and problem is this. How can I tell the site to remember all the six flash videos this particular user has made? So that in the end he/she can push the button that says “watch the whole movie”. How can I do this? Or can I?
Hi! I have generated the movie clips in Final Cut Pro, so they are done without any coding. The video clip is waiting the user at the end of the each path.
The site is really simple and has a lots of pages, i believe 1265 pages in total. So there is a lot of options to make the each scene.
Just checked. There are 288 pre made video clips (in FLV format), and user is selecting his/hers 6 videos from them. So each time it depends on the choices that are made.
I would like the Freeway somehow to remember those selected six flash videos and play them together or in some kind of playlist…
Okay, this sounds like something that could be coded in the browser, using JavaScript and cookies to store the individual choices. Have a look at this example (not really related, but similar under the hood to what you’re trying to accomplish):
The “cart” in this catalog is managed using JavaScript, and stored in a cookie so that you can navigate from page to page (and refresh) without forgetting the choices. Only when you submit the form at the end are these details erased.
You may need to refactor your application in order to use a system like this. And you may find that you don’t need nearly as many pages as a result – because you won’t need to have a separate page for each of the possible branches to your “choose your own movie” decision tree. I think you would do very well to partner with a programmer who could help you work out how to solve this problem. You’ve attacked it with brute force, but to get to the very end step, you need to go back and start over using a scalpel!
Walter
On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Janne Heinonen wrote:
Just checked. There are 288 pre made video clips (in FLV format), and user is selecting his/hers 6 videos from them. So each time it depends on the choices that are made.
I would like the Freeway somehow to remember those selected six flash videos and play them together or in some kind of playlist…
