Re: FLASH: Quicktime issues!

[John Dowdell]

If this is "What can cause failure of a QT with SWF tracks on

some-but-not-all machines?" then the top potential cause is a version

difference in QuickTime... that's the easiest way to get such a symptom,

although it's likely not the only way.


Hmm, but reading through the description a couple more times it sounds like

some SWF content was exported as QT, reimported as QT, merged with other

captured-video QT content, integrated with SWF material, and then exported

as QT again...? (I may be wrong here!) If so, then how do those afflicted

machines do with each stage of the merging there... do they act differently

at a particular step?


(I've seen some calls in the past where people exported vectors as QT from

Flash and then had difficulty reimporting, because this QT had no video

content at all. It doesn't sound like this is related to the description

there though...?)



> Does the QT player have issues with mc behavior or something?


Well, QuickTime doesn't tend to work with nested sprites or scripts beyond

its range... when layering vector interactivity atop captured video content

it's more "here is what can be translated" situation than a "everything can

be translated" situation.



Hmm, hold it, from the part about the other person "recreating it in Flash

to make a Projector" I get the picture that you're trying to use Flash as a

playback engine...? If so, then no, Flash Projectors don't display video

content, and any time there's any QT in the process we'd be delivering as a

QuickTime file. (Hmm, on a fourth rereading it sounds like you may already

have this wired, I'm probably irrelevant here then.)


If you're integrating SWF and video content, then have you considered doing

the final assembly in a video editor? Could this be the missing link

there...?


jd






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