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For the longest time I wanted to create video tutorials that would help others create cool stuff; that really would help people get started with something.

I thought about creating bitmapdata tutorials. I thought about covering some of the soundSpectrum stuff. And I even wanted to explain a bit of magic behind advanced runtime effects (done easy). But none of those really made me believe I could help a lot of people out.
But during the past weeks, it came to my attention that a lot of people really want to get started with Red5, but can’t because they can’t find any simple, straight forward tutorials. That’s where I come in.

Starting from september 3rd, I’ll be recording as much video tutorials about Red5 as I can, covering small topics. I’ll keep it short and real simple. It’s about helping you understand the basics and getting you started. I’ll post them as fast as I can upload them. I’ve got some topics in mind, but I’d love to hear from you guys what you really want to know.

A few of the topics I had in mind:

1. Your first Red5 app: Multi-user Hello World (remote shared objects)!
2. How to create the Shared Ball demo app (remote shared objects)?
3. How to create a fridge-magnet app (remote shared objects)?
4. How to tell other users to do something (remote methods)
5. How to build a basic chat app?
6. How to stream video & audio?
7. Building a custom Red5 application in JAVA
8. Executing methods on connected clients, from the server.
9. Sending data to a client (from JAVA to AS3)
10. Recording a complete audio/video stream.
11. Recording a part of a audio/video stream.
12. Room management done right
13. [more to come... Post your ideas in the comments]

Post whatever questions you have in the comments. I’ll try to answer every single one of them in the upcoming video tutorials, using simple demo’s and examples.

Note (again): I’m trying to get you to understand the very basics, and interesting tricks. I’m not going to help you build insane custom apps.

Time-lapse fun

Some time ago I started looking into the wonderful world of ‘Time-lapse‘. I really found it intriguing and I wanted to do something like that myself. So I started experimenting around, and soon people asked me how I actually do this, so here goes…

Let me start with a disclaimer: I’m still experimenting to find the perfect workflow, and figure out a lot of stuff. If you got any suggestions to make: Don’t hold back Read the rest of this entry »