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How do import video into flash 5 ????
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Well, to begin with there are a limited number of formats that you can import ... amongst them the only one I have ever used being Quicktime. In general, though, vidoe and Flash 5 aren't a great mix.
If you're intent on including video, I suggest creating "pseudo-video", where you open the clip in Premiere (or some other video editing software), export all the frames as a series of bitmaps, then imoprt all the bitmaps into a movieClip in Flash. That way, you have a symbol which "pretends" to be a video clip, but which is really a sequence of images.
The reason that this is better than importing Quicktime, for example, is that if you import Quicktime you must export the whole project as a .mov file, rather than a .swf, meaning that the filesize rockets, and movieClips no longer work.
Maybe you can export as a SWF if it's being played in version 6 of the Flash Player ... it might have more support for embedded Quicktime since MX has better video support in general.
Anybody else care to comment?
If you're intent on including video, I suggest creating "pseudo-video", where you open the clip in Premiere (or some other video editing software), export all the frames as a series of bitmaps, then imoprt all the bitmaps into a movieClip in Flash. That way, you have a symbol which "pretends" to be a video clip, but which is really a sequence of images.
The reason that this is better than importing Quicktime, for example, is that if you import Quicktime you must export the whole project as a .mov file, rather than a .swf, meaning that the filesize rockets, and movieClips no longer work.
Maybe you can export as a SWF if it's being played in version 6 of the Flash Player ... it might have more support for embedded Quicktime since MX has better video support in general.
Anybody else care to comment?
You can import QuickTime into Flash and export from there as a bitmap sequence without needing to use another application such as Premiere.
The problem is that you lose synchronised sound this way.
I'd either use MX (download the 30 day demo, that should give you enough time to make your CD) or, better still, Director which is designed to deal with video natively. Slainte
The problem is that you lose synchronised sound this way.
I'd either use MX (download the 30 day demo, that should give you enough time to make your CD) or, better still, Director which is designed to deal with video natively. Slainte
You don't need to lose synchronised sound ... if you use Premiere (I WILL get people to use this app!) you can split the audio from the video stream as a .wav file, import the sound file and run it alongside the bitmap sequence in a movieClip. Just make sure the framerate of the main movie is set to that of the original video file, and that in your sound settings you change SYNC to "stream". That way you get synchronised sound too.
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Ok, so I have a few minutes of video- do I import 2,000 bitmaps?! And how do I change them all to one movie clip or 2,000 clips? What is done at this point?
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