RE: FLASH: QT in Flash

[Gavin Prior]

*	Question 1 a) - goto here: http://www.flashbible.com/members/ for

Flash basics with buttons etc - and read the manual.  there are tutorials in

the manual for this kind of thing.  If it doesn't make any sense than mail

me directly and I'll send a quick explanation.

*	Question 1 b)  - your QT movie won't work in test mode.  You have to

Publish your movie first to see the results.  You can use your movie as it

is in Flash - Drag your movie to the stage and then drag the timeline out to

the end of your movie - So that you can see all the frames of the movie on

the stage (does this make sense?).  Ok, here's the tricky bit that has been

said a few times here;   You can create Flash elements which are then

published as a layer within a QT movie but you CANNOT play QT within the

Flash player - except as a bitmap sequence which is painfull to watch

(unless the movie is brought down  to the size of a pee!)

*	Question 3 - A flash published .swf file is cross-platform. As I

said the Flash element is a "layer" within the QT movie.  Converting to AVI

would lose that layer.  So, check the laptop that you are using and see if

it has Qt installed.  IF not then go to Apples web site and download it.


Have fun!

:]me.


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

> Hi!

> 

> Ok, here comes 2 newbie questions (I just got Flash 4 a week ago).

> 

> 1 a) What I am trying to do is this: When i push a button I want a 30 sec 

> QT 4 movie to start playing in the scene. How do I do that?

> 

> 1 b) My QT doesn't show when I test the movie... I read somewhere 

> yesterday that you can convert the QT to a gif sequence and then import 

> the entire sequence into Flash as a series of bitmaps. Is that the only 

> way? Can't I use the QT "as it is" directly in Flash...?

> 

> 3) I do my Flash work on a mac. With that in mind, is there any problem 

> making a Flashed company presentation to be used on a pc laptop..? Do I 

> need to do any conversions? Do I need to export the QT's to AVI's for 

> exemple..?



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