Re: FLASH: anyone tried Flash 4 in QT5 [att: Eric Blanpied]

[Eric Blanpied]

Andreas Ua'Siaghail wrote:


>

Eric Blanpied <ericbapple [dot] com> wrote:

> 

>> On another topic, has anyone tried Flash 4 in QT5 yet? We've been working

>> hard on it (and continue to).

>> 

> 

> would love to launch into this Eric. Does the pro version of QT5 [i

> have the beta] allow for the embedding/manipulation of the Flash

> sprite tracks or will i need to buy Media Cleaner or LiveStage Pro.

> Can I import the quicktime into Flash 4 [or 5] to assemble the flash

> track then output to Qt as before? Does it support all Flash 4

> features [esp load movie/variables] or just a subset?

> Can you point to some technical docs / tutorials on this...


The QT5 preview release includes the new "Flash Media Handler", as we call

it. This is built on the core Flash 4 engine which we get from Macromedia.

Since QuickTime has a broad body of it's own actions we set it up to pass

the Flash actions to the appropriate QT "Wired Actions", resulting in a QT

track type which behaves almost exactly like Flash itself.


The limitations are no Load Movie/Load Variable, and no direct MP3 audio

support (Flash MP3 sounds won't play). We have support for these things in

other parts of QuickTime, and our assessment is that people delivering Flash

in QT can use the QT feature instead. The sound problem is the easiest to

remedy, but using the options provided in the Flash tool's publish as QT

window.


The easiest way to make a QT movie with a Flash track is to drop a swf file

on QTPlayer. For more control of the process, check out the options for QT

under "publish settings". If you get a warning saying that QT can't handle

Flash 4, ignore it.


There's not much available for documentation, but what there is is available

to members of Apple's developer programs, including the free "Online"

membership. Go to developer.apple.com to sign up. Developers will be seeded

with more frequent beta releases of QT5 over the coming months. There is

also a QT5 developer mailing list.


If you have questions, let me know, and if you have an opinion on our Flash

support I'm open to hearing that as well. Part of our current strategy is to

get Flash 5 support done ASAP (instead of worrying about our less than full

Flash 4 support). Another is that we figure that Flash-specific projects

will tend to publish in Flash anyway, and that those interested in QT as a

publishing format are looking to include QT features.


-- 

Eric Blanpied

QuickTime

Apple Computer, Inc.



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