Flash :: Trouble With Flash 8 And Quicktime Video Using Skinning

Help Flash 8 Quicktime Video And Skinning Prob
I can't seem to get flash 8 working properly when importing quicktime video.
When I drag and drop a quicktime video into my flash 8 project I set my:

file path is on my computer/ Progressive download from a web server/ Flash 8 low quality/ selected my skin/ changed publish settings to flash player 8/ and click finish.

On my stage my window with a black screen and my buttons is created. A .Flv file is created with my quicktime video's name.flv. as well as a swf file with my menu.

The only thing is it does not work at all. I'm loading this swf into another swf. It worked perfectly before I did anything with video.

I created an intro scene, a button you click on which links to another scene with the video which supposivly links to the .flv file. The buttons work correctly in flash, but when I export the swf nothing even shows up except for my background. I have a stop frame on frame 13 after my intro finishes but my intro does not even play.

Having my video's black screen selected in flash, I set the content path to airplane.flv which is the flv file flash created from my quicktime movie and the skin to SteelExternalNoVol.swf which was created inside my flash files directory. All my files are in the same folder.

When I export the swf nothing shows up at all except for my gray background.

Does anyone know why this is not working?
Thanks,
Jeff

Trouble Skinning Standard Components In Flash 8
I'm attempting to apply skins to standard components (such as RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox) in Flash 8 Professional. I have followed the instructions supplied in Flash Help ... with no luck.

The instructions I have followed are accessible by clicking here.

I've determined that all I really need to do is change every instance of the 'theme' color in the Halo Theme ...

from ... #00FF00 (which is a fluorescent Green)

to ... #DECA8D (tan)

Is there a way to simply replace all instances of the halo 'theme' color (#00FF00) with the new one (#DECA8D)? As stated earlier I have followed the instructions contained within the Flash Help associated with this topic to a "T" ... but it basically just consisted of manually changing the 'theme' colors. They didn't outline any type of ActionScript ... which I find hard to believe - that changes of this nature wouldn't require any code.

I really hope someone can simply inform me of something I'm missing - or there's a 'quick' fix.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Trouble Skinning Standard Components In Flash 8
I'm attempting to apply skins to standard components (such as RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox) in Flash 8 Professional. I have followed the instructions supplied in Flash Help ... with no luck.

The instructions I have followed are accessible by clicking the following link.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...=00003011.html

I've determined that all I really need to do is change every instance of the 'theme' color in the Halo Theme ...

from ... #00FF00 (which is a fluorescent Green)

to ... #DECA8D (tan)

Is there a way to simply replace the original 'theme' color (#00FF00) to the new one (#DECA8D)? As stated earlier I have followed the instructions contained within the Flash Help associated with this topic to a "T" ... but it basically just consisted of manually changing the 'theme' colors. They didn't outline any type of ActionScript ... which I find hard to believe - that changes of this nature wouldn't require any code.

I really hope someone can simply inform me of something I'm missing - or there's a 'quick' fix.

Thanks in advance,
Brett

Trouble Skinning Standard Components In Flash 8
I'm attempting to apply skins/styles to standard components (such as RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox) in Flash 8 Professional. I have followed the instructions supplied in Flash Help ... with no luck.

The instructions I have followed are accessible by clicking the following link.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...=00003011.html

I've determined that all I really need to do is change every instance of the 'theme' color in the Halo Theme ...

from ... #00FF00 (which is a fluorescent Green)
to ... #DECA8D (tan)

Is there a way to simply replace the original 'theme' color (#00FF00) to the new one (#DECA8D) using ActionScript? As stated earlier I have followed the instructions contained within the Flash Help associated with this topic to a "T" ... but it basically just consisted of manually changing the 'theme' colors. They didn't outline any use of ActionScript ... which I find hard to believe - that changes of this nature wouldn't require any code.

I really hope someone can simply inform me of something I'm missing - or there's a 'quick' fix.

Thanks in advance,
Brett

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

Trouble Playing External Quicktime .mov In Flash
I'm using the code below to call a quicktime movie in Flash.
The movie file is on my server and I checked the syntax and spelling.
The Q graphic appears for 20 seconds, then gives me a question mark.
I'm using FlashCS3. the movie is 58megs.
???????

getURL("http://www.johngrivas.com/allley_click.mov", "_blank");

Trouble With Component Skinning...
imported comboBox assets from haloTheme and edited the ComboThemeColor1 MC from the acid green to an orange to match my site. Then I checked the linkage and made sure it was set to Export in First Frame. But when i view my movie - its still acid green... any suggestions on what I'm overlooking? below is directions I was following. The only think different i did was bring in elements from HaloTheme instead of SampleTheme (I like the look of halo better).

# Select File > Import > Open External Library, and select the SampleTheme.fla file.

This file is located in the application-level configuration folder. For the exact location on your operating system, see About themes.
# In the theme's Library panel, select Flash UI Components 2/Themes/MMDefault and drag the Assets folder of any components in your document to the library for your document.

For example, drag the RadioButton Assets folder to the ThemeApply.fla library.
# If you dragged individual component Assets folders to the library, make sure the Assets symbol for each component is set to Export in First Frame.

For example, the Assets folder for the RadioButton component is called RadioButton Assets; it has a symbol called RadioButtonAssets, which contains all of the individual asset symbols. If you set Export in First Frame on the RadioButtonAssets symbol, all individual asset symbols will also export in the first frame.
# Double-click any skin symbol you want to modify to open it in symbol-editing mode.

For example, open the States/RadioFalseDisabled symbol.
# Modify the symbol or delete the graphics and create new graphics.

You may need to select View > Zoom In to increase the magnification. When you edit a skin, you must maintain the registration point in order for the skin to be displayed correctly. The upper-left corner of all edited symbols must be at (0,0).

For example, change the inner circle to a light gray.
# When you finish editing the skin symbol, click the Back button at the left side of the edit bar at the top of the Stage to return to document-editing mode.

Trouble Skinning Scrollpane Component
I am trying to change my scrollpane but no matter what I do, the green halo theme is always showing.

For example, I tried

mySP.setStyle("symbolColor",0xff0000)

and nothing happens. Seems like the arrow should be red. I have tried the color with and without quotes.

Thanks.

Flash MX And Quicktime Video
So i am importing Video into flash from a quicktime movie. I embed the clip and the first frame is a key frame while the rest are regular frames. Is there a way to make it so that every frame of my video is a key frame? Im lost.

Thanks

Quicktime Vs Flash Video
I am building a site that will show funny videos people upload. I want avoid having to convert all Files and create more work for myself. I have been reading up on flv's and I like it when used with Flashcom, but..

Here is my delema, with FLV I can use FlashCom and stream the video easily and also see who's connected etc. However if I am going to have it where users can upload their own (.mov) video then would I have to convert the file to FLV for it to play back in the Flash Video Player? I am using Flash MX 2004 by the way.

If so then it will not work - just be too much video I would have to convert. With not sure how to stream Quicktime in Flash Video?

Can anyone help me.

Is there something user can download for free, to convert files to Flash Video then upload?

Exporting Flash To Quicktime Video
I'm trying export a flash movie I made to a mpeg 4 quicktime video. When I did this, none of the movie clips in the movie played, they just moved around in a frozen state. Is the this a known issue or am I doing something wrong?

Quicktime Panorama Video In Flash
Hey there!

I am making a multimedia Cd-rom in flash mx. And on this Cd, I need to show a cruiseship an the rooms inside. I have used VR Worx to generate a quicktime panorama movie with hotspots(i can then jump from room to room on the ship) But i need to import the movie into flash and play it from there. But it wont work!! Actually i dont know how to import it and in what format. Can anybody help me?
When the movie is importet to flash, its surpose to work like it does in quicktime. I know you can add quicktime movies, but the problem with this, is the quicktime movie works when you drag the cursor over the movie. Then it "plays" the movie and moves from left to right. Have any1 ever used VR Worx with flash, or done anything like this?

Flash Menu For Quicktime Video...
Hi all,

Can anybody tell me where I can get/or how I can create a simple menu for a qucktime video.

Something like the Hi-Res showreel menu. It's just a simple drag bar with play, stop, etc buttons.

Cheers.

Exporting Flash To Video/quicktime
hey there..

if i make a fairly nice animation in flash and i want to use this in a application such as adobe premiere... what is the best type of format i can use for export ??? i've tried this before.. but every flash movie i tried to export to quicktime and every type of compression made the result very pixel like and very smudgy... so.. could somebody tell me which file type to export and which compression to use ?

thanks ...

-jacco

Linking To A Quicktime Video In Flash
is it possible to link a quicktime video like you would with images in flash mx? i have 2 videos thats over 200mb each. embedding them within the file crashes flash. im hoping theres a way to place and link to the videos. i checked the help file but i cant get it to work. this is for a cd btw. any help or advice is appreciated. thanks!

Exporting Flash To QuickTime Video
I have a question about the file format that is produced with "Export to Quicktime Video" option. I am taking pretty simple flash animations composed mostly of .png and other bitmap format files with everything live on the timeline on the Mac platform. The end result that I need is to get it to these specs:

1920w x 1080h pixels
Quicktime File format
Compression: none, animation, or graphics
29.97 fps, square pixels

If I set up my Flash document size as 1920w x 1080h pixels, set the frame rate at 29.97, then use the options in the Export QuickTime Video dialogue box (maintain ration, 24-bit color, best quality) and submit the file as that, am I producing what is needed? Or, do I still need to take the .mov and put it into After Effects and render out of After Effects? I am trying to simply find out if the exported file is sufficient, or if there is another step that I must employ. The only thing I have not indicated is square pixels, but is this a real quicktime video?

ANY help is greatly appreciated! susan

Import Video Flash 8 Without Quicktime
Hello everyone.

Do you really need to install quicktime for importing videos?
I'm just wondering beacuse I don't need it and I prefer to have as few programs on my computer as possible.

Edited: 11/13/2007 at 02:48:27 PM by Henrik_Fri

Quicktime Video In Flash. No Audio
Hi!

Has anyone had a problem importing Quicktime videos into flash? The video plays fine, but there is no audio! A friend told me I might have to compress it a certain way, but he didn't remember how.

Help! Please?

Victoria

Flash Export Out In Uncompressed Quicktime Video
Does anyone know how to properly export a Flash animation as "UNCOMPRESSED Quicktime Video" to then bring into AE or Final Cut for TV? I did it before, but forgot how. If done properly, there is no pixelation when scaled.

Thanks

Free Flash Tutorials In Quicktime Video
hey all, I just created a new site for these...

FreeFlashTutorials.com

2 Hours of video training for flash.

Enjoy

Importing Quicktime Video Into Flash With Controller?
I did a fly through presentation in quicktime. Complete with scroll bars etc... I would like to import it to flash so i can make it more interactive. But when I do, it just plays from 0-to the end of the movie without any controls or anything.

Anyone know how i can import quicktime movs in flash without losing their interactivity?

Thanks!!

Quicktime Video Quality When Imported To Flash
Hello, I am trying to import a Quicktime video into Flash. The quicktime quality seems fine, but when I play it in flash and exported, it gets the lines breaking it up. I've tried both embedding it onto the timeline, and streaming it from the server and the quality looks the same. I also have tried an FLV and seem to get the same problem. Is there a setting I am missing or something?

Here is the original quicktime.(give it a sec to load)
http://www.r2integrated.com/clients/...est_Clip_1.mov

and here is what my swf winds up looking like with that video clip in it
http://www.r2integrated.com/clients/...rs/728x90.html

You can see the horizontal white lines I am getting. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank You

Skinning Video Component
Hello all -

What would be the easiest way to create a video playback in Flash like the one in the attached image? All I want is the progress bar, and a play button with the video. Do I need to skin a certain component in flash? If so - how would I do this?

Thanks!

Fullscreen Video Skinning
Hey All,

I was wondering how difficult it would be (if at all possible) to skin the fullscreen video player for Flash9... just giving the user the basics... a progress bar, a play/pause button, volume control, etc...

Is this possible and if so, how hard is it?

Borderless Quicktime Video From Flash (not Using The Html File. Swf Only)
Ok. Like most I believed search and you will find. I have found a lot of good answers but none for my question.

Basically I have a flash movie with a portfolio section. I load levels into the movie and that works fine. The problem is with Quicktime video. How do I have the video popup and play at the right size with all the crap in the browser removed. This is seriously starting to get to me. I have been searching for this for over week and its time to get the site done. Ya know?

Here is the tricky part. All of these tutorials say add javascript into the movie using functions and stuff. Got that. Then they say edit the html. What html? These movies are being loaded on to the main movie as .swf files, not html. Therefore nothing to edit.
I may sound a little off the rocker but its getting to that point. Anybody know whats up? Please?

Flash 8 - How Can I Bring In A Quicktime Video Withou The Long Wait Time?
I can't figure out for the life of me why in Flash 8 (compared to Flash MX), I can't bring in a Quicktime video to the library without it encoding it for over 10 minutes?!?! In MX, I just imported it and it took about 2 minutes and I did with it what I wanted - now with Flash 8, all of the setting that I have tried leaves me with over 10-15 minute wait time?! Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

The video is Quicktime, 720X480 and 4 minutes long in duration.,

Quicktime Trouble
My flash movies don't play at the right speed when exported as quicktimes and burned onto dvd. I think it is the movie clips that play at double speed. Is it because I animated everything at 12 fps?

Flash Video Trouble
I have a video that plays in a FLV player when you click a button.

My problem is I have a close button, but when I click the close it does not stop playing the video, the sound remains in the background. What is the actionscript code to stop a video from playing?

Sounds simple but I can't figure it out.

Thanks
Jordan

Trouble Publishing Quicktime Mov On Intel Mac
Using Flash 8, Quicktime Pro 7.1.3, System 10.4.6 on Intel Mac 24" iMac

I clicked the "enable Flash tracks" button in Quicktime preferences, but I still get the "missing Quicktime component" messege when trying to publish a mov file. Restarted, re-installed, etc., but no luck. I'm able to import SFW into Quicktime and convert to MOV, but not export from Flash.

Another poster was having trouble with the same thing and thought it might be an Intel Mac bug, so I'm just wondering if someone with a similar set-up can verify that they're able to publish MOV files.

Thanks,
Randy

Trouble Loading External Quicktime Movie
I'm using the code below to call a quicktime movie in Flash.
The movie file is on my server and I checked the syntax and spelling.
The Q graphic appears for 20 seconds, then gives me a question mark.
I'm using FlashCS3. the movie is 58megs.
???????

getURL("http://www.johngrivas.com/allley_click.mov", "_blank");

Trouble Stopping Video Clip In Flash 8
Hello,
I am having trouble stopping an imbedded movieclip in Flash 8.

I have BACK, FWD and STOP buttons on the timeline. I have 10 seperate swfs that need to go into an interface. When you click the FWD button it loads the next swf with the embedded video in it. When you hit the BACK button, similarly, it goes to the previous swf file. I've had no trouble getting the back buttons and fwd buttons to work.
Here comes the trouble...
I tried using Behaivors>Embedded video>stop so I could control whether the video is playing or paused but when I publish the file and click the STOP button, it does not stop the video. I chose to import the video without a skin so I can do the buttons myself because I did not like the choices Flash gave me. Perhaps the Behaivors just controls a movie clip? Can someone tell me the correct way to stop imbedded video? Any help woiuld be greatly appreciated!

In fact I give the helper a Mr. T smilie!

Flash Video... Trouble Using LoadMovie When Movie Is In Another Directory?
i have some video that are dynamically loaded...

http://www.camthomas.com/process/context/

just press play in the bottom right corner...

but the video won't play unless it's in the same directory... and sometimes not at all.

i kinda need the vids in a separate folder just to keep things tidy as i have 30 content movies.

anyone know whatthe deal is?

thank you in advance...

Trouble With Video Player In Sitepoint's Flash Book
I'm using the downloaded code flv-random.fla. I publish it, and run the .swf. It plays the videos fine. However, when I run the .html (that was published by Flash) it loads the swf, but no videos play.

Any ideas? ;/

Trouble Importing Video Into Flash 8 Multi-scene Movie
A Quicktime movie that I import into a twenty scene Flash 8 Pro document refuses to play or even to appear when I Test Movie (or Test Scene). However, the same Quicktime movie has no trouble playing when I import it into a new Flash document. I get the same results with streaming or progressive importing and I am repeating the same exact steps in both cases.

Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?

Trouble With Creating A Dynamic Playlist For Progressive Flash Video
Hey There,

I have been working on building a flash video player and are trying to incorporate the Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video. Everyting is working expect the thumbs are not appearing. Instead, on each row of the list it says " type function". The list is populated with data b/c i can navigate it and select a video to watch, just the thumbs are missin.

Any ideas how I can get my jpg thumbs to appear?

thanks

Flash For Mac "Quicktime Video" Format Question
I used Mac to create a video in Flash 8.0. When I export the clip, i used "Quicktime Video" format (not the "Quicktime" option). But when I play the file in Windows, I couldn't get it to open or convert to other formats such as .AVI. Is there a codec for "Quicktime Video" to work under windows XP? Please help. Thanks.

Quicktime Video And MX
I've embedded several QT movies into a flash presenation and everything is working fine. Then I tried to add an additional QTmov with audio. It plays just fine, but no audio.

Any ideas?

JR

QuickTime - Video
hi,

Does anyone have a suggestion as to the best way of incorporating a QT in a Flash project.

I'm hoping to find a solution that will allow me to load the QT with loadMovieNum(), making it possible to replace the QT by a different QT after the project has been published (...by replacing the QT file)

Thanks in advance for any advice.

TBX

Can't See "Export Video For Flash" In Quicktime
I've just installed all Adobe/Macromedia apps on my new Apple MacPro (OSX 10.4.8 intel).
I usually export my video in FLV format with QUICKTIME, I've used as this on G4 for about two years.
But now, after re-install FlashPRO and QTPro (7.1.5) on new MacIntel, I can't see the option "Video for FLASH FLV" in quicktime export format.
I'm searching for a while on internet, and try so many workaround, but I can't solve this problem. Someone can help me?

Bye Bye
Raffaele/alf182

Video Recorder For Quicktime
Hi all,

I know if I want to record media player movies, I can use ASFRcorder. What about quicktime movies? Any similar tools please?

Thanks

Pls Help Converting Swf To Quicktime Video
I'm using Flash MX for my animation, and like to output it as a DVD.
My problem is:
I converted my Flash movie (With actionscript applied) to quicktime video. after converting the file, the action script wasn't functioned in the quicktime movie. What should I do?

Export To QuickTime Video
Hi All,

I've been using Flash 4 since it came out. Recently I upgraded to Flash 8. I created a Flash project for a client. Well, they liked it so much they were woundering if it could be used as a commercial TV spot. I've been fooling around with different export features so I could preview this on Television through my DVD player, I saved it to QuickTime video, MPEG4 and burned the disk through iDVD and it played fine but looked a bit washed out and blurry. I'm at a lost, this is out of my realm. There's just too many variables to concider. The file consists of Raster images of paintings and PNG files. First, is this doable, and if so, can anyone suggest some export options.

Thanks in advance

Ron

Quicktime Video Quality
I'm trying to export my fla to a video format supported by iDVD. I was able to export to a quicktime movie .(mov) but the quality was horrible even though i chose the highest quality settings and used high res images in the fla. Are there settings that i missed? is there a better video format that i should be using? Image quality is very important for this project.

I'm still new to flash so any help would be great!

How To Upload A QuickTime Video
Hello,
I had asked this question some time ago, but I still do not know, how to do this. I would like to have a button on my web page, which would (on click) open a new pop up window with embeded QuickTime video clip. I would like to be able to control the color or texture of the background and dimensions of this window, lets say 400x300. Could anyone tell me, how to do this? Someone has told me, that I need to create a "container". But how?
Thanks for any advise or input.
Cheers

Edited: 05/28/2007 at 07:09:52 PM by Janek Mohavlec

Linking To Quicktime Video
i need to know how to in flash open a link to a quicktime video but still have it small and not open an entire browser window...

Where's My QuickTime Video Option?
Hi all,

I'm working away on a Mac in Flash MX 2004, using Export Video -> QuickTime Video (as oppose to a straight QuickTime export) so that I get the CODEC options. Great. However, some of the movies I've had to work on with a PC with exactly the same s/w -- MM Flash MX 2004. Not a problem, but for some reason now the Mac won't open them. So I went back to the PC, Export Video -> QuickTime... WTF?? Where's the option???

It simply isn't there? Is there a problem with my install, or did Macromedia not bundle that bit of code with the PC version? It's extremely frustrating. I'm going to have to get in to all sorts of nasty workarounds if I can't export to QuickTime Video (PNG) on a PC!

G

FMX QuickTime Video Import Question
Is there a file size limit on the QuickTime videos that can be imported? I have a 83.3Mb file compressed using Sorenson Video 3 and no audio compression. If I take a 10 second segment of the file, ~9Mb, it imports just fine. But the full file keeps prompting FMX that it needs more memory to import the file. I boosted the required memory for FMX to 192Mb of RAM.... and it's still not enough.

Thanks...