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Flash To Video For DVD-video Presentation
Hey all,

I'm trying to put together a project in Flash that will be exported, either from Flash or from Final Cut Pro, as a video file, encoded onto a DVD and then played by my client at a large corporate gathering in an auditorium.

I want to create at least several of the animated sequences as individual Flash files because eventually, a version of the final product must live on the web and they would prefer it as a Flash file rather than a heavy video file.

How big should my Flash files be? 320 x 240? 640 x 480? Less? More?

What frame rate should I use? 30 fps? 60 fps?

As I stated, I'll likely make the individual segments as Flash files and import them into a program like Final Cut Pro and export the final movie. Anythng I should know??

THANKS!!!

Making A Presentation/commercial/training Video...(using Video)
Hail everyone...

I wanted to know what best to use if I wanted to make the above mentioned (in the topic subject)...

Seeing as tv res is 350x200 (or somesuch) the res won't be a problem (using DV cam), but as soon as I import the movie in flash, it pixalates BADLY (no quality for use in a TV commercial)...

What is the best format & encoding to use for this...

Or is there an app that can import layers from flash...

Because I need intricate shapes over my movie (playing as part of background, or only displayed half way across the screen)

I have to whip out a miracle with limited resources & I need some help please

Thanks before hand...

Flash Presentation To Video
hell everybody......

i have a flash presentation with multiple small small swfs with video imported in it and actionscript to load swf as required.... now i want to convert this presentation into a video (MPEG, AVI, etc.) is there a way to convert this presentation into vedio... i tried FLASH TO VIDEO ENCODER PRO it converts but (the effects such as fade in and fade out... sum effects are exported from swish... etc.) the resulted avi file is not smoother enough... it halts.. stpos and runs...

well is there any way or any other software from which i can convert my presentation into video with all effects and smoother transition....

please help me...
thanx in advance..
regards.

Transparent FLV Video In Flash Presentation
I see this trick at few websites:
a) one part of flash presentation is normal vector flash objects
b) second part is external flash video (FLV) file added to flash movie, which have one color background - this color in flash animation is transparent, at this video for example is human, car...

How it's made?

Example: http://www.viessmann.pl/pl/products/...y_program.html
[the same in deutsch: www.viessmann.de/de/products/Produkte-Video.html ]

or:

www.k2.pl/e-marketing/
[if loaded click after right side of page content at cup of coffe,
and next if presentation is loaded click "zamknij" (close)
and move quickly mouse coursor to see the some animations]

Flash Video Sync Presentation
Hey gang,

Need some help.
I built a flash video presentation that has cue points that go from section to section as the lady is talking. When it gets to the end I need it to stop completely becasue they have choice to take of which form they wish to goto to sign up for more info, but I cant figure out why my stop(); code isnt stoping the presentation. It just automatically loops to the front again. i have loop unchecked when i publish it also. so anybody have a solution, it is much appreciated.

Nothin' but respect y'all,

Mike

Flash Slide Presentation Video Playback
I have made a powerpoint like presentation using flash's Slide Presentation format. In one of the slides i have added a video using the flv playback component. How do i set it so that the video auto starts and stops when the user enters and exit the slide? I don't want the video to start playing from the beginning of the presentation before the user has entered the slide and i don't want the user to have to click the play and stop buttons to control the video when he reaches the video. I imagine i will need some sort of actionscript to do this. Can anyone help me out?

Thank-you!

Flash Sync Video Presentation Question
I am finishing a project that incorporates a progressive FLV that synchs up with graphics. Boss saw it but now wants to be able to pause the presentation and the start it up again any time during it. Does anyone have any idea how to /stop/ and start the video and the graphics in the timelines within the scenes (using the flv controls)?

Thanks in advance,
Mike Jones

Build Windows Media Video/Slide Presentation With Flash
I want to create a Flash video presentation with Video and a slide area. In the Video area I would like to embed a Windows Media file (local or streamed) that has a script embedded in it on the Left side of my interface. Then a slide area on the right side. I want to then trigger off slides in time with the Video file through the embedded script. I currently do this with html/javascript with windows media and frames and a script embedded int the video file using the PAGE parameter and then triggering off basic .htm files. Is there any way to do this or can anyone point me in the right direction.

Thanks so much...
CHouck

Slide Presentation/video Control Using Flash 7 "stuff&q
Intially a flash doc was created as a slide presentation/video interface, using embedded video. Buttons on the left are for individual slide titles, slides are on the right, and a small video window at the bottom showcases the speaker talking to the slides. Using embedded video was the easiest way for me, a newbie, to set the whole thing up. I would just create frame labels for each slide based on where they fall on the timeline. The problem is audio sync. When the user clicks on a button to take them to a different slide, the audio in the video would lose sync. I found out, via google, that embedded video sucks for doing videos longer than a minute. Because I have to build for a Flash 7 and below intranet, I have to use those components in Flash 8. So where I'm at now is I have the standard:

var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection_nc.connect(null);
var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);
stream_ns.setBufferTime(0);
my_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);
stream_ns.play("movie_file.flv");

Code attached to the buttons read:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("slide2");
stream_ns.seek(17);
_root.Pause.gotoAndStop(1);
}

So.. the problem is, I initially created frame labels based on embedded video. In the example above, the speaker on the video started talking about slide 2 at 17 seconds. Now, when I try to use those frame labels as my information (frame label "slide 2" is at 17 seconds) for stream_ns.seek, it doesn't match up.

What's the best way to do what I'm trying to do? Before I tried the netstream approach I was fiddling around with using the MediaDisplay component (I don't need the interface stuff with the player). I even tried to add cue points. I also even tried to add cue points in the Sorenson Squeeze compression. The problem is... I don't know the code to for skipping to those cue points, using Flash 7 AS 2.0 code via the buttons I've created. I'd prefer to use cue points as they seem to be easier to set up than guessing at where these net.seek things need to go.

any help would be appreciated.

Publishing Flash Video Template:Spokesperson Presentation With Synchronized Graphics
Flash 8 newbie here trying to clamber the learning curve. Downloaded Flash Video Template:Spokesperson Presentation with Synchronized Graphics for use on project. Using template with screens to present and synchronize graphics/slides with Flash video. Able to customize background, encode & integrate video, and add and synch graphics with video cue points. Getting stuck however on using Publishing Settings to create desired presentation of finished product. Goal is to publish so that browser window is exact size of SWF and does not scale (as with template sample at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/vidtemplate_corppreso.html#). Tried numerous Publishing Setting combinations, but can't seem to make this work. Guidance, instruction, insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

CD Presentation & Video
Hi,
I need to incorporate a five minute video in a corp. cd flash presentation. The original mpeg is about 7 mb but when I import in within flash mx and maintain a 100% size, 30fps & 100% quality the output .swf turns out to be 50 mb !!! Even on cd a 50mb video .swf will take time to start. What do I need to do to maintain highest quality, original size and keep the output size lowest as possible or at least +/- same as the original mpeg.
Thanks,
Smalco

Video Presentation Help
I have created a spokesperson video presentation using this template:

Template link (Adobe)

I have set cue points that work just fine for transitioning from one slide to the next as triggered by the video at certain points. I also want the animated text and graphics for each slide to be triggered by cue points in the video, rather than being timeline based as I've done them currently. I found some code that I was told should work, but I've had no luck with it.

Also, as it is now, the video plays just fine when I test the movie, and when it is exported (swf and html) on my local system, but I understand I need to change the video link to point to a streaming site where the vid is hosted or progressively downloaded. I'm confused about how this should work, and how to host the video. It is an .flv file (about 15Mb.)

I'm a relative newbie, so please don't assume I know anything.

Thanks for any advice or assistance!

Andrew

Video Presentation
Ok here is my issue. Along time ago I worked with a company that did e-learning and I didnt know alot of AS at the time. I use to timecode movieclips so that they synced with the video. How in gods name is this done. I have the video that stops and the video stops but the mc keeps going. So I simply dont want to make a huge timeline trying to sync everything and I know there is a way to make the movieclips come on screen dynamically with timecode. If anyone can show me where I can read it or explain it in a way I can understand I would appreciate it. Thank you in advance for anyones help.

Presentation With Video Clips
Hi, all experts

I am trying to figure out that

is flash a good program to do a presentation with video clips?

In fact, the presentation I'm gonna do contains:
1. static text
2. still photos and diagrams
3. video clips

I have 2 choices, a) powerpoint, b) flash

and i love to do this with flash, producing a projector file, since it's got video in this presentation, ( i did website with video in flash, and it works quite good... http://www.pitale-hk.com)

but I admit that I come from a non-programming background... so some advanced actionscripts involved always cause me a great headache.

And in presentation, consecutive images maybe cause so much trouble for the flow of the presentation...

Will the flow of the presentation be better with powerpoint?

any examples I can take reference on this issue?

Presentation Video Plays All At Once
I am a video pro guy who is familiar with Flash and picked up MX.

I am putting together a presentation in Flash and when it loads the .exe file (windows) all the video plays at once, instead of when its page is accessed.

Any suggestions?

Video Presentation Template
I'm using a video presentation template i found on this site. When I go to create the "slide" portion, i find that the various elements are not in the same place, even though i am coping and pasting one slide repeatedly.

For example, i want these to look like slides so i'm using bulleted lists. on slide 1 the coordinates for the first bullet are -109.3 by 49.8. but on slide 2 (an exact copy) the first bullet is -109.3 by 66.1 and the third -209.8 by 37.4.

what am i missing?

Enhanced CD Video Presentation
Hi all!
I have read the Video Template tutorial in macromedia's site(http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/...dshowcase.html) and I would like to modify this template in order to use it in an enhanced CD, not for web use. Also I would like to add that the videos I'm going to use will be much bigger (around 100MB). What modifications must be done?
Thank you very much for your answers.

Video Presentation Like On Www.ssga.com
Hi
I need help figuring out how to create flash video presentations like the ones on www.ssga.com . I was able to create an flv file and using mediaDisplay component was able to create cuepoints in the file, but I am not able to customize the playback controls. Also how do I move the green pointer to next chapter when cue points change?

Slide Presentation Video Plays All At Once
I have video encoded on different slides, and they all play at once.

Any suggestions?

[F8] Want To Create Presentation Video For Business
I want to create sign language presentation video with dynamic text(show up while presentation). How can I make this with flash pro 8?? Please help!!!

Video Clips On Presentation Slides
Hello. I'm putting together a flash presentation (pro8). On a few slides I have a video clip. They video clips start playing as soon as you open the published swf. Is it possible so that the videos don't play as soon as you open the swf? I want the person viewing the presentation to click on the play button when they get to the slide with the video but I can't figure it out. Is this even possible?

Live Synced Video Presentation?
i would like to develope a live synced video presentation some where on the lines of this

http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...?promoid=BPDEA

and this

http://www.stream57.com/streamline.html

just wondering how they all work and how to go about it?

do they use flash media server?

how do they sync the presentations with the video live

is there any tutorials on somthing like this?

Live Synced Video Presentation
i would like to develope a live synced video presentation some where on the lines of this

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/?promoid=BPDEA

and this

http://www.stream57.com/streamline.html

just wondering how they all work and how to go about it?

do they use flash media server?

how do they sync the presentations with the video live

is there any tutorials on somthing like this?

Intergrating Video And Pictures Into A Looping Presentation
Hi to all,

I am looking for any advice on creating a looping presentation. I have used Windows Movie Maker in the past and the results have been satisfactory, especially as I can specify any video or picture and then just sort out the fades.
I want to be able to create the same setup in Flash using both pictures and video files. When the pictures comes in, after about 10-15 seconds fades out into the next, but if the next happens to be a video file, play the file and then move onto the next picture/video.
The idea being that declaring all the content within an XML file means that once the flash file is created, the content can be freely interchanged.
There is a looming deadline and I am trying to get a grip on the components necessary to achieve my aim.

Any suggestions?

[F8] (Presentation)create Dynamic Text With Video?
http://www.studycea.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=5158

Here is example that I want to create flash video with dynamic text. How can I create this one? Please HEEEEELP me ASAP!
Because I need to create sign language presentation with video and text for deaf people .

How To Connect Flash Video Player(like Youtube) To Live Streaming Video The Programm Like
How to connect flash video player(like youtube) to live streaming video the programm like webcamXP?
Or through a browser to look in a videoplayer video from other usual personal computer with the program for a video broadcasting from the web chamber.

How To Connect Flash Video Player(like Youtube) To Live Streaming Video The Programm Like WebcamXP?
How to connect flash video player(like youtube) to live streaming video the programm like webcamXP?
Or through a browser to look in a videoplayer video from other usual personal computer with the program for a video broadcasting from the web chamber.

Upload Quicktime Video File And Convert It To Flash Video
Hi

this is the problem i am facing.

I am uploading video files from my desktop to run in a website.
is there a way to convert whatever video format i upload to be converted to flash video format and stream online?

the website is the place where one can upload their personal videos and share with others online.
having a tool to convert the files to flash video would be a pain for the users. (most may be novices of technology)

Thanks in advance for any help in this regard.

Thanks

cheers
GugZ
INDIA

Flash Video Gallery Â€“ Link To Specific Video Upon Launch
I saw this question asked before when first doing a search on this topic, but have yet to see any replies, let alone any that work.

How can I link from within a web page to a specific video that is contained within a modified version of Adobe's Flash video Gallery tutorial?

When a user clicks on a link that says "View Dr. Jones Lecture", I want the Flash Video Gallery to launch with Dr. Jones' video loading and playing immediately. As it stands now, the video player just wants to wait until someone locates and then clicks on the video of their choice WITHIN the video player itself. That is fine if a generic "Launch our Video Gallery" link is clicked, but not if the user is expecting a specific video to play.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Cheers!

Flash Video Menu (button - Download Video From Cd - Problem)
Hi!

I made a flash movie which looks like menu (functions like dvd menu). Inside of it you can view videos, make some calculations, use small programs,... I have burned it on cd. When you put cd into computer it autoruns. It works great.
But....(theres always but ) On cd I have one video (97MB) which I would like user to be able to download. For example: inside flash move there is a button, which has a function to download this video from cd.

Please does anybody know what script do I have to put inside a button to be able to download this move from cd to users computer!?!?!
tnx for reply

FLASH 8 Video / Flv/skins In Subdirectory Cause Video Not To Display.
When I do my flash work, I usually keep my flash files in a directory that's not the same as my php or html files.

I usually keep my .swf files in /siteswf/

When I upload the html that calls my flash movie , for example siteswf/movie.swf

it would normally play fine as long as the html and the .swf are uploaded. but for some reason the .swf won't play because it wants the flv and the skin of the flash 8 movie (flv) to be in the same directory as the html file calling it. How do I fix this so I don't have to put the movies and the skin in the same directory as my html files?

-Line

Flash Video - Video Editing Help Needed
Hi, I was wondering if I could find help here.

I wasnt to replace the "face" of a character in a video with another face. Example:
www.elfyourself.com

I do not want to load different pictures like on that site, I just want to replace one face with another. Its a fun video so i dont need it to be perfect. Just want a replace face.

I would also appreciate if you could direct me to some tutorial where similar thigns can be done.

Thanks in advance.

Flash Video Encoder - Sizing Video
Hello

I have an uncompressed video at 720x486. I need to encode it to Flash video at 640x480. When I import it into Flash Video Encoder, I use the custom settings to output a 640x480 movie at 30fps and 550kbps using the VP6 codec.

Flash video outputs a 720x486 movie.

What am I doing wrong?

http://www.dorseygraphics.com/forumphotos/flashvideo.png

Thanks,

---------------------S

Speed Up Video Using Flash Video Encoder
Hi,

I'm converting a quicktime movie into an flv file and am also trying to increase it's speed. I've tried playing about with the frame rates option but it dosn't change anything. Is it possible to do this in the video encoder?

Any rays of light thrown on this subject will be greatly soaked up!

Flv Video Created With Flash 8 Video Encoder
anyone know why flv files that I've created using the flash 8 video encoder don't seem to have any metadata in them? or maybe they do but they never kick off the NetStream.onMetadata event so I can't read it...

Similarly if I use the 'import video' function of Flash Pro 8 I get the same issue - yet FLV video created using Sorenson Squeeze works fine, so I'm fairly confident that my code is OK.

Even more bizarrely, if I use the FLVPlayback component that ships with Flash 8, that seems to read in the metadata OK!

argh!

Just to confuse things even more, the flash help for NetStream.onMetadata says: "The Flash Video Exporter utility (version
1.1 or greater) embeds a video's duration [...] into the video file itself."
As far as I can tell I've got version 1.0 of the flash video encoder/exporter but I'm damned if I can find out where to get an update from...! Ever since CS3 came out it's been harder and harder to get hold of stuff about flash 8 on the Adobe site...

FLASH 8 VIDEO: Video Automatically Starts...help...
Hello everyone. I've got a quesiton for you Flash 8 video gurus...I've got websites that I'm using Flash 8's incredible video delivery on, for example, Billy Idol's keyboardist Derek Sherinian's site. I've been looking everywhere for a way to get the flash video NOT to automatically play. I.E. if a visitor wants to view the video, they'd have to physically push PLAY on the control.

Can you guys help me out? Thanks very much!

-Chad

Linked Video, Streaming Video In Flash MX
hi!

so, I want to be able to import and publish video in Flash. I know how to work with video when I embed it into the .swf, that's farly easy, but my problems come here:

how to control/make controls for linked video?

why the hell can't I get anything workin when I try to publish a file with linked video (even when I publish it as a .mov)

How to preload large (~10 mb) files when the content is offline, say a cdrom?

so in a nutshell, are there any tricks in flash and video, especially when the content is offline. Communication Server MX is solution for online streaming, but offline?

it's **** hard to make a decent cd-rom, when you want to work with flash and use video. please help!?!?!?!?!?!

Flash Video: Playing A Huge Video From Cd
Hi Guys,

I'm creating a presentation cd with flash and flash video, the FLV file size is 200mb and plays ok when the flash movie opens.

However if i try scrub to the end of the video a couple seconds into the movie the movie pauses for about 2 seconds before the buffering bar shows up, then it buffers what it requires and plays.

The problem is the 2 seconds, it seems messy or jerky because the buffering bar takes so long to come up.

I think this is because the video is loading into the computers memory, as I've read up, yet I was wondering if there is a way to preload the entire movie into the machines memory before playing, or making the buffering bar come up more quickly.

it is playing from a cd so:
FLVPlayback.bytesLoaded - does not help nor does
FLVPlayback.bytesTotal.

Id appreciate any insite into this issue
Thank you
Roark

Flash Video: Play Intro Before Video
Hey guys, first post, and already i'm requesting something, sorry about that. I wish to give a big thanks to Lee and all the users helping out here, being a total newb at actionscript, I found alot of useful tips and tuts. Ok now to the point of my request.

I created a custom player following the video basics (which is a great tut by the way), now what I would like to do is that each time someone plays a video on my website, they have this short 2 second intro play first, and then have the actual video start playing, and when it reaches the end, have the player return to the start of this video and stop, so that people don't have to watch the intro a 2nd time (unless they go and play another video, or leave and come back).

So in other words, have 2 flv files, one for the intro and one for the video, just so I don't have to edit each of my videos manually to add the intro, before encoding them. I thought of using a XML playlist, the problem is that i'm loading the videos dynamically through flashvars so it wouldn't be practical.

Hope this makes sense. Any help at all with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Flash Video Basics (Stop Video At End)
I recently watched the tutorials on Flash Video Basics. I tried it myself and it worked great. I was wondering if any one would know an easy way to make the video stop at the end, instead of replaying over and over. Also wondering if there would ever be more parts to the tutorial down the road, like displaying how long the video is and where it is in seconds now.

Thanks In Advance,
Dave

Flash Video With Video Integrated
hello!

Does anyone know how could I integrated a dynamic text into a flash video?

you can watch an example at:

If you have watched the video you should see a blood message wrote on the wall, this is a customized message.

There is a web site: http://icetruck.tv/ where you can customize this video filling some flash text fields, aftert that, you can send an email linking to this video.

can anyone give me some clues about how the integrated this text in the video?

Thanks a lot and sorry about my english!!!

No Video After Flash 8 Video Encoder
I have read some other posts and although they are similar, none of the solutions posted helps me fix my specific issue.

Using Flash 8 on Windows XP Pro SP2, I have a MPEG-2 file. I can play the MPEG file using Windows Media Player 11 and RealPlayer 11 but I cannot play it using QuickTime 7.2. When I load the MPEG file into Flash 8 Video Encoder (to convert it to a FLV file), it doesn't seem to recognize that there is a video portion. It recognizes there is an audio portion. By this I mean:

1. In Flash 8, click on File > Import > Import video...

2. Browsed to the MPEG file and clicked Next

3. Selected Progressive download... and clicked Next

4. In the Encoding screen, the video portion (top right hand corner) is just blank.

In the MPEG files that work, I see the first frame of the video. So, Flash 8 Video Encoder does not recognize there is a video portion. Also, in Advanced Settings, in the Encodign tab, the Encode Video checkbox is grayed out and not selectable. Only the Encode Audio is checkable.

In writing this, I think the problem is my MPEG file. So I'll continue to search the net for solutions to this. I just hope someone has run into this issue in this forum and provide some guidance.

Thanks.