Flash and Quicktime

Jack Michaelson's picture

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Hi there,

I've imported a .mov into a flash movie, but I can't get the .mov to play inside the flash movie. This should be possible.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanx in advance,

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Megan's picture

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Which version of flash are you using? I know that MX has better support for video than v. 5 does but that's as much help as I can give you. Hopefully someone with more flash knowledge will stop by and take a look at this soon...

Megan's picture

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Have you addeed keyframes to your timeline to make up the length of the video? In v. 5, this is what the help file says to do:

Quote: To preview a QuickTime movie:
1. Add the number of frames to the Timeline that correspond to the length of the QuickTime movie you want to play.
2. Choose Control > Play.

Note: You cannot preview QuickTime movie content using the Control > Test Movie command.

It also says that you have to export your movie as quicktime for it to work.

Jack Michaelson's picture

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I'm using version 5.

One problem is that I do not know the # of frames in the QT mov.
The second problem is that I do not want to export it as a QT mov but as a swf.

Seems that I (we, me and my collegues) have to find another solution...

Thanx anyway, Megan.

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Megan's picture

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I think that Flash MX would probably be able to do this, so you might want to check that out.

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Flash 5 can't export .mov files as .swf's, but MX can. Wildform Flix is another option.

TonyMontana

Jack Michaelson's picture

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Thanx Tony, I'll have a look.

cheers,

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