Planning the workflow for your video project

In this chapter, what we're going to create is an Animate composition that …plays an MP4 video. The plan is really simple, when the movie …starts, click a button, and the viewer is taken to a frame, on the Animate timeline …where the video starts playing. And if we take a look at it in the …browser you can see there's that frame. There's the video, and if I click the …play button, we gotta video playing in an Animate composition. …Now the key considerations behind this project are, using Edge Animate to play a …video in an Animate composition, and keeping the imaging and video size small …to ensure speedy load and playback times. After playing through my media library, I …decided to use a cable car video I had shot a couple of years ago in …Switzerland. The next question of course was, how …would all this look if I started working with it inside of Animate? …That's when I broke out my sketch book. Like all projects, the creation process …starts on a piece of paper. I decided to go with a default state size …