Re: FLASH: projectors pc/mac

[Michael@BTW]

Mac Flash can't open wav files (for some stupid reason as most any other Mac

program that deals with sound can!). Probably you need to take the sound out

of the PC file (on the PC), save the soundless file, bring it to the Mac,

bring the wav over separately, convert the wav to an aiff (using QT pro or a

number of other converters available at MacDownload.com), re-import the

sound as an aiff.


Compressing the sound as mp3 should allow it to play fine on the Mac, though

Flash 4 doesn't import mp3, so your back to 1.


General notes on x-platform file transfers:


Network transfers work fine, we do it all the time here with this caveat:

Mac file have two parts w/as PC files  have only one. Thus, if you open the

pc .fla on the Mac using 'open: all formats', they work fine, however you

may get errors if you try to open the file as a Flash file on the Mac, since

the second part telling the MacOS what kind of file it is is gone.


If the Mac has its 'File Exchange' control panel properly configured (file

type .fla mapped to Flash), it should recognize the .fla extension and open

the FLA normally.


PC zip disks also work fine here, though on occasion a zip on its way out

will cause file corruption and not be openable on the Mac (or the Mac may

have PC Exchange--which allows it to read ISO formatted disks turned off).


You can also email the flas compressed as .zip or .sit files, which Alladin

Stuffit can make and open on either platform.


Michael Penney

See Combat Footage from the West/An Tir War!

http://www.bigtimeweb.com/events/events.html



----- Original Message -----

From: "Brack, Jeremy" <

Jeremy [dot] Brackimgusa [dot] com

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Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:52 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: projectors pc/mac



> we had the same trouble at my company.. only we use 99% PC here, and we

had

> a client who needed the FLA in MAC format..

> we first tried saving to a PC formatted ZIP disk, and this caused errors

on

> the MAC.  Then we tried a MAC formatted ZIP disk and it was unreadable by


> the PC..

> then we got some PC software that can format a disk for both MAC and PC

> use..

> this final solution worked perfectly.  The employee that located the

special

> software has since quit our company, and his PC is now formatted, so I

have

> no way of knowing what software he got.

>

> But maybe if you linked the MAC onto your PC network, then simply copy the

> files over the network instead of using zip disks?

>

> Jeremy Brack

> Web Designer

> Interactive Marketing Group

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: able dorson [ableyawho [dot] com (mailto:ableyawho [dot] com)]

> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 3:14 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: projectors pc/mac

>

>

> Hi

> this is my first posted question, hope someone can help me out.

>

> I've made a flash movie which, so far has only been intended for playing

> straight off a hard drive in an exhibition setting. It contains 5 minutes

of

> audio, which until now I have exported as raw audio, hence the .fla and

> subsequent.swf ios around 50mb.

> It's been made on a pc and now I want to do a number of things with the

> movie and need to transfer it to a mac as that is what I work on.

>

> Here is a list of what I've tried and what's been happening.

>

> -I've tried transferring the.fla on a zip to my mac and it keeps crashing

my

> machine.

> -I've tried transferring the .swf to my mac and it appears with a

quicktime

> icon and there is nothing there when I try to view it through flash player

> and when I try exporting it into a .fla, it does not want to import.

>

> Ultimately I want to create a flash projector and get it online.

>

> Will exporting the audio as mp3 solve all my problems, just some of them

or

> non of them?

> I am gonna try this myself, but the guy I'm working with whon has a pc and

> the original file on his machine is away for a few days, so I'm trying to

> solve the problem before he returns so as to save some time.

>

> Thank you in advance for any help.

>

> able.

>

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