Live Instrumentation in Flash
NCDevCon, Raleigh September 17,2011
FITC @ Adobe MAX, LA California October 22,2011

This session will covered the basics of working with sound in Flash, and then how we to build on top of that to create rudimentary musical instruments on tablets and phones. We’ll explored, at a fundamental level how sound works, how to create sound at a certain frequency, and how those frequencies can be mapped to notes and chords. We’ll then explored how to use this knowledge right in Flash for web, AIR, or mobile .
I dissected my open source Flashamaphone project http://code.google.com/p/flashamaphone/ to help attendees learn these concepts, and showed off other similar audio engines.

 
HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely
NCDevCon, Raleigh September 17,2011

In this session, Ben will discuss the differences in serving up your video content through Flash versus the HTML5 video tag. Each has pros and cons, and we’ll discuss what is appropriate for different situations. We’ll also discuss using streaming or progressive video along with some popular video player libraries (both on the Flash and Javascript sides). We’ll also get into how the HTML5 video tag works at the basic level and how you can leverage it if you choose to develop your own player.

 
Music and Sound in Flex and Flash - 
NCDevCon, Raleigh May 22,2010

Presented on various ways of working with sound in Flash and Flex.  Covered basics of digital signal processing for audio, creating sounds from scratch, and microphone manipulation.  Also covered various ways to get more performance when processing lots of audio samples

Adobe Fireworks CS4 for Beginners
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed Adobe Fireworks features for designing and interactive prototyping for HTML sites and Flex applications

Using Flash Assets in Flex 3
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed how to use assets created in Flash in Flex 3 applications.  Presentation covers skinning, creating AS3 components, and basic graphical manipulation using the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS4

Physics in Flash
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed why developers may want to use physics engines in Flash and covered the pros and cons of several free engines.  I went into detail on Box2D and showed a few demos and explained how it works

Zinc Desktop Tool for Flash
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed what Multidmedia’s Zinc is and why it’s a great choice to bring Flash to the desktop.  We went over using joysticks, embedding media, creating extensions, and more.

Sound in Flash
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed a wide variety of topics under the umbrella of using sound in Flash.  This included embedding on the timeline and loading/playing sound with AS3.  Also went into advanced topics like visualization and creating sounds dynamically through code.

Papervision3D
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed a popular 3D engine for Flash called Papervision3D.  We went over how to create assets in a 3D tool called blender (modeling, texturing, and exporting).  And then we covered how to bring these assets into Flash for manipulation.  This presentation was given by Troy Stratton, Iris Stratton, and myself.

Flash Catalyst and Flex 4
Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group

Discussed newly released beta software for the Flash platform.  Covered how to design/prototype an application in Flash Catalyst, and bring that over to Flex 4 for creating interaction and functionality.  This presentation was given by Troy Stratton, Iris Stratton, and myself.