Re: FLASH: Video in Flash

[Andrew Le Sage]

Yes but is there a way to to have video without any extra plugins that your

visitors will need to download and be confussed by. I think not and this is

the only limitation of Flash. Perhaps they are saving it for Verson 6. I

have used Lightwave to make an AVI and saved out an image for each frame. It

works for small stuff like a 3D logo of something. However I want to put

real life video in a flash movie without QT, I will just have to wait.


A

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From: Eric Blanpied <

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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:45 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Video in Flash



> Michael Penney wrote:

>

> > You can also create a QT movie as has been suggested, set up your flash

> > presentation with the video in flash and export as QT. Be prepared to do

> > some testing/futzing with compression, etc. to get the alpha channels

> > working right.

>

> Flash and QT work great together.

>

> To do a simple combination of a Flash Track and a Video Track in QTPlayer

> Pro is not that hard. Here's an example for a single-frame Flash movie

with

> video:

>

> 1. Publish your SWF as Flash 3 (4 if you want to mess with the Public

> Preview of QT5).

> 2. Prepare your audio/video movie to the compression settings that suit

you

> (this is not the list for that discussion, is it?)

> 3. Open both in QT Player

> 4. Select all in the Flash movie and copy.

> 5. In the video movie, select all.

> 6. Hold down option (alt) and shift and select "Add Scaled" from the Edit

> menu (where Paste normally is).

>

> This adds the Flash track as a new track, scaling it *In Time* to fit the

> duration of the selection. This approach has the advantage of just using

one

> long frame to get the duration right for the Flash Track. You don't have

to

> spend any time messing around with getting the right number of frames in

> Flash to match the duration of the video.

>

> To fix the layering:

> 1. Open the Info Panels.

> 2. Select the Video Track from the left popup.

> 3. Select "Layer" from the right popup.

> 4. Change the layer number of the video track to something (-1 or -2 will

> usually do).

>

> To reposition the video track:

> 1. From the right popup select "size"

> 2. Click "adjust"

> 3. Drag the video around, and experiment with the (admittedly strange)

> handles.

> 4. Click done when you're finished.

>

> When you have it the way you like it "Save As", *Clicking the Make

> Self-Contained* radio button.

>

>

> You can do similar things to add streaming video tracks to Flash tracks.

>

> --

> Eric Blanpied

> QuickTime

> Apple Computer, Inc.

>

>

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