Learning Flex: Videos

What we're doing:
  You've started learning Flex. You have some books. Perhaps you've finished the core 'starter' documents Adobe provides (see my previous post). And maybe you'd like to:

• Dig deeper into Flex
• Get tips on where to go to learn more
• See what other groups are doing
• See some third-party libraries in action
• See where the Flex technology is going
  

  Alas, you missed the most recent 360 | Flex Conference. Where do you go?

  I'm going to give you some links and places to start.

Your Steps:
  Install Adobe Media Player. You're going to use it to view videos from the San Jose 360 | Flex Conference. Then we'll walk through how you can find more content from Adobe.

  Get the content from the 360 | Flex Conference.

1. Open Adobe Media Player ('AMP')
2. Click "My Favorites"
3. Click "Add RSS Feed"
4. Enter/Cut-n-Paste: http://sessions.onflex.org/1733261879.xml

Quick AMP Familiarization:
  Eventually you'll want to set AMP up to work for your use of it. For now, try these settings:

• Choose 'Options' from the upper right
• In the "Start Screen" tab select "My Favorites"
• In the "New Episodes" tab choose the "Display..." radio button and select '6' in the number drop-down
  
• In "Playback" tab choose "100%" and check "Remember where I left off..."
• In the "Performance" tab choose the number '6' so AMP will pre-fetch some videos for you. Also choose a bit rate for the videos (based on how awesome your machine is)
  

 
More about AMP: How to permanently store videos you want to watch multiple times
  AMP will keep a maximum of 6 videos for you. If you've watched them and want to see them again later, you'll find you have to download them again. Here's how to beat that.

• Go to the 360 | Flex Conference link from above. 
• Download the FLV files you want to see. (Their names are mangled. Rename them as you see fit to allow you to remember what they're about.)
  
• Open up AMP
• Press Control-"O" to "Open" a file.
  
• Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the FLVs, choose the one you want to watch.
  

Finding other video content:

• Choose AMP's 'Catalog' link. Browse it.
• Click in AMP's 'Search' box. Look at search results for "flex", "flash", and especially "adobe" and "adobe developer"
• Any FLV can be opened and played, so poke around the internets!