MIPCOM 2009

My latest project was to build a USB cross platform application. This was a USB giveaway for UK Indies stand at MIPCOM 2009. Thanks to the actionscript coding skills of Martin Carder we where able to deliver an application showcasing all the best video content from the UK Indies website on time and on budget.

Design and development

The application was built using Zinc and Flash. The animated intro was made using  After Effects and the design and graphics where made in  Fireworks.  The application worked on Mac and PC’s with an autorun file for the PC. The video files where all encoded as flash flv’s and the great thing about using Zinc is that no flash plug-in is required on the users computer so we can use the latest video codec.

Issues

One small bug was found when building this application. Zinc was unable to read the xml file on a mac when the £ (£) symbol was used. The symbol needed to be changed to  £ in the xml file.

Getting the application to autorun on a PC was also made differcult in that the standard CD-Rom autorun would not work. The next best thing was to select the application in the popup window.

ukindies_autorun

The code is as follows:

[AutoRun]

OPEN=UK_indies.exe
ICON=UK_indies.exe
ACTION=UK Indies
LABEL=UK Indies

[AutoRun]
OPEN=UK_indies.exe
ICON=UK_indies.exe
ACTION=UK Indies
LABEL=UK Indies

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