Matt Ronchetti from SISUmedia.com posted a comment on my blog that I’m particularly happy about.

Howdy again! Thought I’d drop you a line to point you at http://www.transformersmovie.com/

We just added some of the DVD information for the site. This update included adding the Flash trailer and I immediately thought of using video.Maru. It was a tight turnaround and video.Maru definitely helped speed up my development for the simple video player the client needed.

Thanks again, and I’ll be sure to let you know whenever I find a use for video.Maru in the future. Keep up the awesome work!

I’ve always thought it would be great to work on a Science Fiction movie website. This is as close as I’ve gotten, so far.

Another video.Maru user contacted me this week with some questions. He is new to Flash and doesn’t know much Actionscript - which is who video.Maru was primarily intended for. However, the manner in which he needed to use video.Maru went a little beyond the norm. He wanted one video player with lots and lots of buttons that would play different buttons.

We emailed back and forth a few times and I helped him with a solution that met his needs with a minimal amount of effort by using the video.Maru API.

Here’s the letter he sent when he got everything working:

Dan………………..you are THE MAN!!

It’s working 100%. Absolute lifesaver…! I had a couple of problems getting it to work with the original file but it was because the videoMaru movie holder needs to be in the first frame of the movie it is contained in. Which I hadn’t been doing. This then caused a few problems as it meant that when videoMaru was in the first frame of its container you could see the control buttons at all times over the rest of my site. It took a while to get round that but I just got it. I put the control buttons off the stage in the first keyframe of the videoMaru holder and then in the second keyframe I put them in position. Then put a bit of script to go to the second frame
when I want to see the player.

Hopefully you get what I mean there, but the main thing that is important here is that it now WORKS!!!!! I’m so so thankful to you for helping me out Dan. It’s an amazing application and I know that little line of code is going to feature again and again on many buttons in many future projects. A million thank you’s especially for taking the time to get hands on with the fla and especially on a Saturday!!

You really are the man!

God bless you sir,

John.

It’s very satisfying to be able to help another member of the Flash community succeed in their work. That’s the only payment I get for video.Maru and it’s all worth it.