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Import & Export...Really Messed Up !!!

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BiggyRat

BiggyRat

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Dec 17, 2006
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Not sure what happened...

…but something’s gotten screwed up really bad w/ both my import AND export settings in Flash (running Flash MX Pro 2004). I was in the process of importing a .MOV movie (created in Sony Vegas Movie Studio (v8.0), to be exported as a .SWF (out of Flash…to be published to the web, in order to be displayed on our band's MySpace site).

I know my .MOV export out of Sony Vegas is OK, 'cause I can preview it in QuickTime; & it plays & looks great. But when I import it into Flash, I know something is wrong right away, 'cause the display window reads: "current selection cannot have actions applied to it". And when I hit the Play button...all that can be seen is a solid white screen...there's no content, no transitions...no nothing. If I go ahead & export as a .swf, all that get’s exported is a white screen…no movie.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks,

Biggy Rat


BTW - The movie I'm working w/ is a dynamic photo montage, where I placed photographs of the band side by side by side; & then added transitions between the still images. The only reason I went back to redo the montage because it was too large in file size; which prohibits the loading of tables on our MySpace page, until the movie fully streams. I was looking for a way to decrease the file size coming out of Vegas; & then this happened. But...like I said...the .MOV out of Vegas plays & looks just fine.

Thanks,

BR
 
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oldnewbie...

Thanks, man.

Out of Vegas...I'm customizing a 256 Kbps Photo - JPEG codec template [obviously searching about in the various options, for some miracle means of compression that will give me clean & detailed looking photos (& transitions)... along w/ a small file size. I though maybe since it was a movie made up of still photos, a basic JPEG codec might fit the bill].

I created screen shots of my settings (along with an extra screen shot including other .mov export codec options):


Thanks again,

Biggy Rat]/b]
 
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That's exactly what was done...the audio was not included.

BR
 
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I'm confused... You're saying there's no audio on your montage, but according to your template settings, you seem to be exporting audio, be it a silent track...

I'm saying, can't you disable audio output, and just export video from Vegas? I can, from my video editing programs, but I need to disable audio, otherwise it encodes a silent audio track...

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I'm saying, can't you disable audio output, and just export video from Vegas?
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o crap, man...

that's what I thought I was doin'...will have to delve into this deeper. Sorry for my neophyte approach...not meaning to take up so much of your (& the forum's) time.

will report back.

BR
 
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oldnewbie...

Go to my band's myspace page:


& if the video isn't working...if what you're seeing is an all white space (about half way down the Bio section)...& it stays that way after the amount of time it would take a 5 MB file to load...

...then the .MOV conversion to .SWF has now been screwed up by TWO programs...Flash AND Swish Max.

I now have no idea what to do to solve this problem...I create a .MOV file out of Sony Vegas Movie Studio...which plays fine in the Quick Time player...& now this.

Oy Vey.

BR
 
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oldnewbie...

1st of all...it's there...in my . (right where it should be...just checked).

Secondly...how would you happen know that info?

BR
 
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As easy as looking through the posted page's source...

And if it's there, it's certainly not in the base directory, where with the path you've used, the Flash plugin player would be looking for it...

And that said, I can always stop answering you, if it bothers you that much... After all you're the one asking for help...[tongue]

Regards. FLASH HELP - OPENED FOR BUSINESS!
TO GET YOUR OWN FREE WEBSITE HOSTING
 
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No...

I don't want you to stop answering me...of course not...I'm still very much interested in having this solved. I'm just a very private person & didn't realize you ran a normal source view. But as I've said...I have no idea why it wouldn't come up in your check because it is in fact there, in the root directory.

But I'll tell you where I am w/ this at present, 'cause I thought I had the source of the problem narrowed, based on the following:

With the original .swf on my desktop, I opened it in Swiff player; & it played fine.

I then renamed that file...still on my desktop...& it still played fine.

I then cut & pasted it to my html directory...in hopes of uploading it to my server, from Dreamweaver...

...opened it again, from that location...to make sure it was OK prior to uploading...& it opened pure white !!!

So...I go back to the desktop, cut & paste the .flv created by Swish Max (2), to my html directory...opened the (now renamed) .swf in Swiff player...from the html directory...with it's cousin, the damn .flv file (also created by Swish Max, in that same location)...& it played FINE.

This meant that...despite being renamed...it was still linked somehow to the .flv...& very much dependent on the .flv in order to play correctly in any Flash player. And the funny thing was...when the .swf was playing correctly in Swiff player...the damn controls didn't work...it couldn't be paused or stopped; & began playing immediately upon opening. That should have been some type of indicator to me, right there.

So I go back into Swish Max; & figured out how to embed the .MOV file w/ no loss of quality (what I did was, under Quality for the Export settings. I chose 'adjust manually'). I kept the jpeg quality slider at 100%

The movie encodes. I get a black screen. Good, so far. I play the movie; & a quick progress window jumps up that tells me the program is "generating scenes". And at the end of that, an ERROR window pops up.

I try and export it now, as an .swf...it attempts to generate scenes again; & the same error window pops up. And no .swf file gets created.

So...that's where I am. I have a (supposedly) OK .MOV file...but two .swf generation programs (Adobe Flash & Swish Max) can't create an .swf from it; & that's where I am.

Thanks,

BR


 
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Ok... After some more page source viewing, and decompiling...

Here's what I come up with...

First, your P1_MySpace_50.swf is not on where I was initially looking for it, but really on where I did find it and decompile it...

That file is apparently loading a .flv, and there's one problem right there in the name... 2 dots in the name...

Try renaming it using an underscore as P1_MySpace_50_29_7.flv (only 1 dot before the flv extension...), and of course all references in your scripts that should now call P1_MySpace_50_29_7.flv and NOT P1_MySpace_50_29.7.flv, to see if perhaps it then works...

Regards. FLASH HELP - OPENED FOR BUSINESS!
TO GET YOUR OWN FREE WEBSITE HOSTING
 
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OldNew...

No...no...no!!!...the reason you came up w/ so many different files & numbers was because you were popping in during a test period, man. Holy cow, I was experimenting & uploading galore...sorry for not keeping you in the loop...

...BUT...

Here is where I am now...'cause I've definately, finally got this figured out:

Something about the way MySpace is configured does not allow for the external .flv file on the server to feed the .swf...it has to be a complete .swf only...with everything encompassed within one file.

I proved this to myself after .swf AND .flv uploads didn't work (as created in both Adobe Flash & Swish Max...w/ the MySpace code pointing to the .swf).

I went back into Flash & used a recommended method whereby the 1st step was to first create a 2.0 Action Script; & step 2 was to then import the .MOV movie. But instead of utilizing the external .flv link import method...I embedded the .MOV...so that when I exported...Flash exported an .swf only.

My first bounce was an .swf of 45 MB or so; & that's up there now...& finally working.

Trouble is...a movie of that size movie is far too large to load quickly (for low bandwidth DSL &...God forbid...even yer basic telephone line type 56k modems). And...as I believe I have pointed out earlier...none of MySpace's basic tables load for the page until EVERYTHING is in place...which rules out having the page load normally, while we wait for the movie...can't be done.

So now...I have to go back to work in Flash (or Swish Max) & get that file size down (w/o too much loss in quality).

I suspect a method to start down that road would be to quick compress on import/embed...but if any veterans 'round here have any tips on making small files w/o major quality loss, I would certainly be indebted.

Thanks again...

Back to work,

Biggy Rat
 
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