Flash :: Problems With Publishing

Publishing Science - Please Clear The Muddy Waters Of Publishing Best Practise
Having been working with Flash now for a few years there is still something that I find unfathomable & hopefully a clear concise reply to this will help me & maybe others.

Question.

What is the best way to publish Flash?

I have always used the percent setting (100%) & made sure that any jpegs I used would be of a quality that will scale up well. I say scale up I use a pretty big monitor I imagine (hope) that if they have to be scaled down they will not look too c**p.

To me there seems to be this elite science among some of the more experienced developers as to how they publish movies. I know the methods of the stage object can come into play such as _width etc., but how the hell do you accommodate all the components of a movie to work out there size & where they should then sit in a browser window? I have checked out other forums posts & articles on this but there seems to a lot of conflicting information.

I have successfully used & understood the swfObject & also have a good handle on HTML having started off programming with that. My best bet is that a movie is published within an HTML frame/table set & the setting of both are tweaked some how. I'm I on the right track & if so what is the current size of browser that I should be looking to publish to?

Publishing Multiple Pngs Or Publishing Movie So It Can Be Imported To Movie Maker.
So I want to enter the Neovision Altador Cup III Contest: "Ready for Fun". I have my animation done in flash, but need to be able to get it into one of the acceptable formats.

.mov, .qt, .mpeg2, .mpeg4, .mpeg, .avi, .wmv, .3gp, and .3gpp

I thought the easiest way would to some how import it into windows movie maker. There I could add sound and compress it into one of the acceptable file formats. Does anyone know how to change swfs or publish movies in a way that could be imported into windows movie maker or to one of the acceptable submission formats.

I have also found that I can publish pngs and import them into windows movie maker. But I can only do one frame in the time line at a time. Seeing as I have probably 800+ frames, is there a faster way to do this?

Thank you for any help

Publishing...
This may be a stupid question but how do I correctly publish my flash site, I've done the publish thing and have my html and swf files, loaded them on my server and everything works, but what I don't get is why do I need the HTML pages as they appear blank (obviously done something wrong there) and when I just load up my tested movie files they work fine. So why do I do this publish thing.
Thanks for your insight

Publishing
I have a flash movie and a number of elements that have linkages, are exported and placed on the stage with actionscript. It seems like these items load at frame 1 of the movie.

Problem is I want to put in some sort of a pre-loader before this but haven't been able to. Seems this first frame has to load before anything else happens. I've tried reversing the orders of the layers and publish settings to this effect but it doesn't do anything.

Is there some sort of way to have a preloader appear before this first frame loads (on the first frame on the stage, there is nothing)? and/or some way to spread this first frame content that has to be loaded over the next couple of frames. Thanks

Publishing
Okay I made a movie with the trial version. Actually it's just a wav I want to add to my site. How do I publish it? So I can link to it? I have only used frontpage to publish anything in the past, do I use it now? tHANKS & Happy New Years

Publishing
When getting the html from view source to paste on web page to upload, I noticed the text was not included in the object tags. Pasted anyway and of course nothing shows up on the web page. What am I doing wrong.

Publishing
Yo,

i made a little flash animation a want to use as an intro on my site. I made a html file of it and published the site. The html is 676 bytes.

Yet, when i want to look at the published site it takes for ages to load.

How can i help this?

My intro.fla file is 260 bytes

At Wit's End- PUBLISHING?
okay, so no one seems to know why I can't publish my flash movie (it says there's an error - access to my hard drive denied!) after trying many things and even re-installing Flash onto my hard drive, it gives me the same darn thing.

Question: If I am placing this in a dreamweaver site, do I absolutely NEED to publish it, or is "export movie" sufficient for uploading? I tried this first, and it ran in Netscape except for a glitch at the end (not sure what caused this!). I am at wit's end. An entire tardy site is ready to go except for this intro flash problem - yikes!!!
thanks...
-L

Publishing To WEB
Hi Guys. I'm a new and inspiring FLASH developer.
I am running on FLASH 4. I am trying to upload external swfs located in the same directory as my index.htm on the host server. Off line on my hard drive it works like a charm. When I upload it, it just shows the backbround and not the swfs. Please check it out(www.infer-structure.com).

There are 2 swfs that should be playing near the bottom but that are not showing-up.

FOr on-line publishing, do we change the "get movie" parameters to point to the online directory or leave as is and the index.swf will find it?

Please help me. I have double check publish settings, my host company confirmed support for flash, and I have tried pointing to the online diretory (http://www.infer-structure.com/www/counter.swf).

Please Please help me. Thanks.

Publishing
I have a swf which loads 1 onther swf during play back. when i publish it as a projector or .mov it dosen't see the other swf to load and leaves it blank.
Any ideas????

Publishing...?
I have a little test page that i want to publish...

I have setup the publish settings and hit publish...

I have exported the movie...

Now what do i do to get it onto the web..??

Thanks in advance

dvdvault

Publishing
I've got a very simple problem but I'm a real beginner(sorry)
I just finished my page on Flash MX and now I want to transform it into an swf file (to publish it), so that I can put it on the Internet. Now When I start the swf-file, my page is desplayed as a completly different movie as when I export the Film, when I got the .fla-file open.
The movie starts for example not at scene1, picture 1 but it starts anywhere in the middle of the page.

then there are some settings which are different from the ones I made an I can't publish my Page at all like that.
Can you explain me exactly what to do, when I want to publish my Page.
Thanks for your help

fabian

(I'm sorry, but english isn't my motherlanguage)

Need Publishing Help
Im a little flash retarded and i was wondering how you can isolate your movie, i.e. no titlebar or headers the like. Is this possible and if so should it be done in flash or when burning the cd?

shanks a lot

Not Publishing Right
Ok... I'm sure you have heard this all before, but I am a NEWbie... I'm talking raw... just fell outta the tree.... new. New as in, other newbies are pros compared to me (believe me, I've checked out THEIR sites and I am baffled)... Someday I will take a course or something but as for now....

Ok... w/ that said... I am teaching Flash to myself. Have found these Boards helpful beyond belief... (I've been lurking for a while)... alas, I could not find my answer to this question... so here goes...

When I publish my movie... (trying to do a website) none of my fade-in's work. They work when I "test scene" (I have Flash 5 by the way) but not when I "test movie". I hope you can follow my rantings. I also tried publishing it and they still don't work. Everything else is working though.

Any help you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated.

A Determined Newbie

Publishing Help
hihi,

i'm a newbie here... just getting the hang of flash mx... um, i'm designing a website for my school's interact club, and the site is all done using geocities, but i want a flash intro... and i have the intro finished, but i can't seem to publish and load it. i just published the flash intro, and then copied the html from that, and stuck it in the geocities thing... am i doing this incorrectly? can someone please help me? thank you!

~brooks_interact

Publishing Help
hi,

i'm trying to publish my flash intro... and it doesn't seem to work... am i doing something wrong? all i did is publish my flash intro, then took the html from it, and stuck it in my geocities site. can someone please help me? thanks.

~B-I

Publishing
Hi and thanks for viewing
I want to publish an mx as a quicktime
already set the settings to 4 but...
if publish bottom up get the qtvr and no buttons
or top down get the buttons (that don't work) and no qtvr but the cursor is doing the qtvr thang
please help 4 i go crazy!
jo

Actually Publishing Your Swf
Okay, I feel really, really stupid, but how do you put your swf into your website? Thanks!!!

Publishing
I need help in coding the HTML to display my .swf file on my webpage. tried looking in the help files to no end.

Thanks.

Publishing Help
I cant publish my menu/nav bar the correct size... It always cut off half of it... Anyone know how to publish in full sizE? Thanks

Publishing Fla For Gif
can someone teach me how to publish my flash work in gif format? i can't get it right because evertime i publish it in gif format the movie the animation was gone and the resolution of the movie is not good. hope someone could help me with this. thanks!

Publishing
i know how to fit the page to scale and in the previous versions of flash i never had to delete the right scroll bar. i don't know how to do this, anyone know how?

thanks
mike.

Publishing A Big .fla
hi there,

i just completed a big .fla slideshow with a streaming bit of music (5 minutes). Now the big mistery: whenever i try to publish or export it to quicktime, the quicktime movie seems to be OK but i get no images AND when I hit play, it skips to the end.

Is the .fla just too big (65 MB) or do i overlook something?

Publishing ?
Hi

When I publish my flash movie and play it in my IE browser, there appears on top and to the left about 1/8" gap. Now I have tried adjusting the html preferences befor publishing but could not see any change.

Is there a way to change this?

BMP When Publishing?
If you use bitmap pictures in a fla movie when you publish that movie does flash convert those pictures to jpg thus reducing there file size ?

? On Publishing
hi
i am a gig promoter and have just done a small site in flash. one swf file. the whole site is in really basic . i just used the go to frame label action to navigate the site. i dont really have a clue how to get the site on the web properly. i am able to just put the whole swf into dreamweaver. save it as index and upload the index html and the swf. this works okay.
but what i really want to do is upon reaching the site the user sees a normal html page with two buttons. one saying enter the site and another saying flash is required(clicking on this button it will bring the user to macromedia site to downlload the flash plugin if required)
the enter button is the problem : how to i link it to a the .swf
i cant find any threads that go into any real detail and if they do its really complicated stuff which i dont understand at all. i have no real experience at this at all so can some please tell me step by step (from after i complete the swf ---to getting it on the web) exactly how i go about it and try to be as simple as possible
much appreciated and thanked in advance.

Publishing
hi
i am a gig promoter and have just done a small site in flash. one swf file. the whole site is in really basic . i just used the go to frame label action to navigate the site. i dont really have a clue how to get the site on the web properly. i am able to just put the whole swf into dreamweaver. save it as index and upload the index html and the swf. this works okay.
but what i really want to do is upon reaching the site the user sees a normal html page with two buttons. one saying enter the site and another saying flash is required(clicking on this button it will bring the user to macromedia site to downlload the flash plugin if required)
the enter button is the problem : how to i link it to a the .swf
i cant find any threads that go into any real detail and if they do its really complicated stuff which i dont understand at all. i have no real experience at this at all so can some please tell me step by step (from after i complete the swf ---to getting it on the web) exactly how i go about it and try to be as simple as possible
much appreciated and thanked in advance.

Not Publishing
Okay, I made a simple flash movie, then I use ctrl+enter to view it. Once I do that it places the .swf movie in my save file location. But now I made a another movie, and when I ctrl+enter it works fine. But the .swf movie of that in my save location doesn't work, it is just a white box. Does anyone know why, I appreciate it?

Publishing As .mpg
Is there any way that I can publish a Flash movie as a .mpg. I am making a DVD and the only way that you can have an intro before the menu is to have it as a .avi (I have a program that converts .mpg to .avi).

If anyone has a solution, please let me know

Thanks!

Michael

Publishing?
I made a video that relies on the timing of the mp3 that is in the video... and when I test the movie in FLash it works perfectly... but when I publish it to projector or swf file the times goes all kinds of crazy.... does anyone have any idea???

Publishing IT?
ok ok .. so i am a complete nub to flash, all of you can laugh at me
ne ways, after i have made what i wanted to make, how do i save it so i can import it to dreamweaver, adn its ready to go?
I seem to be screwing up somewhere, beause it takes about 5 min to load .. and all it is is a picturee, thats not animated, with like a 3 min long song

thanks guys

trev

Publishing
when i publish my work as an .exe it works on my pc.
but when i take it to another pc, none of the external .swf's that are loaded into it (and should be bundled into the file) load!

any ideas?

While Publishing...
hi dear ones,

i have one movie of size 160kb(at 22 fps)...that i m goin to accomodate in a html file....for web...

but while publishing first few frames are running very smooth....but after some time...the movie runs at 7.2 fps or sometimes at 12 fps(probably due to some movies inserted on the main timeline)

and i m not happy with the overall performance...
plz. help me out...

seeking for your valuable response...

san

Publishing
i am relatively new to flash, and i just want to have a site for my band where it is just the flash animation. can i publish the animation as html and just upload it to a server? i don't really know much about html, that is why i picked flash, but i do not know if i need to do anything special to get my web-site up. i also want to know how to check if i did my preloader right.

thank you

Publishing
Hi!

For example, I have a site www.raptor100.com and flash enter page index.html appears at this address. From index.html I have a link to the main flash page index1.html which appears as www.raptor100.com/index1.html. How can I adjust index.html or index1.html, so that /index1.html doesn't appear at the address line and just stays www.raptor100.com.

Please help

Mike

Publishing Help Please
I'm not bad at Flash but i'm terrible at html and dreamweaver. I've got my movie ready to go, the background is in there. However, my swf won't align flush with the top and left of the page, thus, won't align with my background. Theres about a 10 pixel gap between the swf and the html page. I'm sure it's something simple...anybody know? Thanks for any help

.swf Publishing
I had to get a new Hard Disk for my Mac the other day and had to reinstall all my software including Flash 5.0, I find now Flash seems to be only publishing and exporting in Quicktime movie format instead of .swf like before. How can I get it back to .swf please if anyone can help.

Thanks

Publishing
Hi, i just started using Flash 5. And after I made my movie, i published. But when i was viewing the file, it showed nothing. I made .gif and .jpg file. It wouldnt work. Can anyone help?

Web Publishing
can anyone give me a basic rundown in publishing a flash webvsite. I have the web space ready, I just don't know how
to get iton. help anyone?

Publishing
I have completed a website and I am publishing and uploading to its new home....however the pages are coming in at 800x600....what did I do wrong to get this resolution...I created everything to fit to 100 percent....I would like it at 1024x768...did I miss something in the publishing settings dialog box?
Its been a while since I have done this and do not remember how? (Flash MX)

Publishing
When I use the publish settings and go to the HTML tab I dont have a flash only(centered) option on my template drop down menu. Why? My friend has it on his and it makes it extremly easy to post centered sites to the web. Where could I download this extension or plug in.

Web Publishing
When publishing FLA's to HTML, it never posts them correctly. My FLA's are always to the bottom right. I checked my publish settings but it still doesnt help. I looked for a tutorial but no luck. Thanks for any help.

Publishing Help
I am designing a webpage in Flash and every time I publish it, there is a white border at the top of the browser window that is cutting off my graphics. What can I do to fix this?

Publishing Help
I am trying to publish my first all flash web page. I gone through the publishing setting and they are all set correct. The movie works fine as fla and swf however as html it does not display anything, please take a look and tell me what i'm doing wrong or what i need to do to correct this.

Publishing For Web
when i try to publish a flash project in the .mov format it says "the installed version of quicktime doesn't have a handler for this type of macromedia flash movie." anyone know what i need to be able to do this(or if there's another format i can use to put it on my website)? thanks.