A co-worker of mine needed an application that would make it easy for him to take snapshots of .flv files for a content management system, so i came up with the idea of having a go and doing it with air.

So as a follow up i'll make a little tutorial explaining how it works. As Usual you can have a look in the code for the intructions. And should you have any questions feel free to ask them.

Air application file -Thumb

Update: Now published with the final AIR version.

Its likely that a better way to do this exists, but one way to emulate a double-faced Plane() is to have a Cube with depth = 1, and hiding all but the front and back faces. Here's a and the code.

The hint to do this was from ldoru and the car in the images too!

 Update:  I would not longer use such an approach to achieve a double-faced Plane() with a different material on each face. I would recommend using a DisplayObject3D with two normal one-face planes inside it.

First be sure you have either flash cs3 or flex2 installed on your machine, then you'll want to download the Papervision3d engine.

Now we can get started
Look in the code for instructions

Download Actionscript source file

And that's it, if you have any questions please post them!! We'd love to hear from you.
Lo.

Code to come soon.