Re: FLASH: hello from new member; prob importing files

[John Croteau]

Hi James,


> I've just joined the ranks of Flash users; my name is James Poulakos.

Welcome


> It'd be better if I knew why Flash 4 [PC], upon importing a QuickTime [QT4

> sorenson, cinepak or video] or JPG the *2nd* time in a session, refuses to

> recognize it. Instead, it says, "This file type is not recognized.... Would

> you like to try using another application to insert the file as an embedded

> object? If no other application understands this file type, the file will

> appear as an icon."

Do you have the latest version of Quicktime 4 installed?

Make sure you can play the QT 4 movie sans Flash 4 first.


Just a reminder QT 4 can not be exported in an SWF file. It's main

purpose is to combine Flash with Quicktime content and export as a QT 4

movie.


You can also export the QT movie as a series of bitmaps which could then

be imported into Flash, but because of the lack of video compression

this is not often practical. JPEG compression can be used but it is

applied only to a single frame at a time so a series of JPEGs is almost

always much larger than a similarly compressed video format such as

Quicktime (mov) or AVI.


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