P&O Ferries new site

I had to make this site which charts the making of the new P&O ferries which are currently in production.

It links with a seperate blog via RSS and has to be updated with new content regularly. Added to this, there were two phases of launch, but phase two had around 80% of phase one's pages in it, but at different page sizes. This made the build quite challenging. I had to therefore kind of build phase two as well, although most of the assets were not going to be ready for some months after I finished. The client I was working for, The Tin, didn't want to have to maintain two seperate sites, as there were likely to be changes down the road, so I had to keep them merged into one project as much as possible but also keep them seperate enough that if one part of phase one changed, phase two would still work the same. It was challenging, but ultimately we got it pretty well worked out.

Adobe Media Encoder Issue
I got to revisit cue points in flash video in phase two, as there was an interactive video where uses could click on hotspots or jump to places in the timeline to see information about certain aspects of the ships. I had done something very similar a few years back for Agency.com for the British Airways site so it wasn't too bad. One weird thing I did notice though was that the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) doesn't count frames properly when putting in cue points. AME measures the video at 30fps in the cuepoint window even if the video is 25fps!

For example if the position that the cuepoint should be added is frame 50, this would be 2 seconds into the video and not 1sec20 as AME would have you believe.