Re: FLASH: Digital Video to Flash

[Michael Penney]

You didn't say if you had a capture card? Since most Capture cards come with

software, I'll assume you don't. So the first step is to get a card. Now

here you have several ways you can go. If you would like to also be able to

put your video on VHS, you want to get a card that supports full resolution

DV. The easiest/cheapest way to do this is to get a firewire card, you can

find a Pyro or Digital Origin card for around 1-200$. Some of these will

come with capture software, others don't (last check on pricewatch you can

get a pyro DV card with software for 100$). For short clips to go into

Flash, this should be sufficient. I have not used this software, so I'm not

sure it supports exporting a range of numbered frames as jpg or BMP, which

is what you want to bring images into Flash. If it doesn't, get one that

does support exporting to QuickTime movies, get QuickTime Pro (30$), which

will export numbered frames, you can then import these into Flash in order,

set your image compression, and export as swf.


If you don't want to go to vhs+, just Flash/web video, you may be fine with

a usb capture card, several of these on the market from 100-300$. Since

these cards only capture around 1/4 DV resolution-something close to

320x240-I'd only recommend this if you either don't want to open your case

for the firewire card, or don't have the drive space (and don't want to

upgrade your drive) for DV files (about 2 GB/10 minutes). These cards come

with a variety of software, so again if they won't export numbered jpgs,

then you would want to get QT Pro as above.


The only free solution I know of is if you have a firewire'd Mac, then just

download iMovie and capture away;-).



> Hi,

> 

> I've got one of these small digital video camera jobs, and I am wondering

> what would be the best way to incorporate small clips of film into my flash

> projects.  I should say that I don't think I have any decent software for

> capturing the video.  What should I be looking at (free-ware if possible)

> and what would be the procedure of converting to .SWF?

> 

> TIA

> 

> Best Regards

> 

> Shaun Brazier

 


=====>

Michael Penney

Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

BigTimeWeb.Com




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