Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web.

Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web written by Lisa Larson and Renee Costantini

Having got a few chapters into Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web I would say the book is a little heavy going, however as the old saying goes, if it was easy we’d all be doing it.

This book is probably the next logical step up from Stefan Richter’s book, as it drops you right in at the deep end from the start.

I will post a full review once I have finished it.

Reviews currently on Amazon.com can be found here.

I have found the cheapest place to purchase to book in the UK is -

http://books.theregister.co.uk/index.asp

The accompanying website to the book is -

http://www.flashconnections.com

Programming Flash Communication Server.

Programming Flash Communication Server by Robert Reinhardt, Dave Yang and Brian Lesser.

Reviews currently on Amazon.com can be found here.

I have found the cheapest place to purchase to book in the UK is -

http://www.amazon.co.uk

The accompanying website to the book is -

http://www.flashsupport.com/forum/

Learning Flash Media Server 2.

Flash Media Server 2 by William Sanders.

The book has a 3 out of 5 on the publishers website.

I have found the cheapest place to purchase to book is -

http://www.oreilly.com

The accompanying website to the book is -

http://www.sandlight.com/

Hands-On Guide to Flash Video: Web Video and Flash Media Server.

One of the first comprehensive books published on Flash Video was Stefan Richter’s Hands-On Guide to Flash Video: Web Video and Flash Media Server.

I read it from cover to cover in two weeks and I thought it was excellent, even though I had already aquired a lot of the knowledge the book covered.

Here is my review of the book for Amazon.co.uk -

Stefan Richter is one of the leading developers in the area of Flash Video.

Flash Video is without doubt set take over the web, simply because of the way it can be integrated with webpage’s to create a more dynamic user experience that can also be interacted with, as well as it’s ability to be able to perform the functions of a standard web page.

Stefan’s book gives a good introduction to Flash Video, starting simply with some of the considerations to be taken into account when preparing your video content, how to compress it and ultimately how to present it along with the various methods of presentation – streaming / progressive etc.

Stefan has devoted 3 chapters to the subject of Flash Media Server including an explanation of how to install and configure the software as well as discussing some of Flash Media Server’s more advanced techniques.

Knowledge about this subject is still thin on the ground and this book will give you plenty to go at regarding Flash Video.

Stefan has done a great job, putting a book out that will get people on the first run of the ladder and I highly recommend it.

Other reviews are available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk , and they think very highly of the book as well.

I have found the cheapest place to purchase to book in the UK is -

http://books.theregister.co.uk/index.asp

The accompanying website to the book is -

http://www.flashvideobook.com/