Well, actually, I’ve been here since Saturday. However, today was the first of our three seminars in Australia.

Brian, Leesa and I met at the Powerhouse Museum this morning around 8:15am and there were already dozens of people there waiting. By the time we started the seminar we had around 300 people filling the auditoreum.

Brian started with a fantastic 30min demo of Contribute 3. Leesa then gave a superb demo of Captivate and Breeze. I then spent 45mins talking about Flash video and a few comments about the Flash roadmap.

Summary of my presentation:
- For a long time, web video experiences have sucked
- Pressing “Play” should mean “Play”, damnit!
- Most media players are huge, confusing downloads
- My dad doesn’t know what “Select your media player and your connection speed” means
- There’s got to be a better way…
- There is a better way…
- www.cnet.com
- www.redbullcopilot.com
- www.vodafone.com/futurevision
- www.microsoft.com/mscorp/innovation/yourpotential/main.html
- Flash Player 6 is on over 95% of Internet-connected desktops worldwide
- Other media players are more than 30% less prevalent
- Three key advantages to Flash video:
1) Widest reach
2) Full creative control
3) Rich, interactive and contextual
- Three ways to deploy Flash video
1) Streaming Server (FlashCom or Flash Video Streaming Service)
2) Progressive download of external FLV
3) Embedded video
- Macromedia Video Kit overview
- How to encode FLV using the FLV Exporter that ships with Flash Pro, or Sorenson Squeeze
- A quick summary of some of the things that we’re working on for future versions of Flash

I’ll try to post my presentation in Breeze so you all can check it out.

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