Inserting an Actual Movie Clip

[Guest_imported]

How do i insert an Actual Movie clip, such as a commercial recorded off my tv. What format dose the clip have to be in. MPEG or Quicktime, also how do i play it.


Thanks
-Dan

 

[oldnewbie]

I don't think you can use mpegs... looking in help turned this up:

Using QuickTime movies

If you have QuickTime 4 or later installed on your system, you can import a QuickTime movie into Flash in order to modify the movie. However, in order to display the QuickTime movie, you must export it in QuickTime format. You cannot display a QuickTime movie in SWF format. For more information on publishing your Flash file as a QuickTime movie, see Publishing QuickTime 4 movies.

You can scale, rotate, and animate a QuickTime movie in Flash, and you can play and set the directory path of the movie in the library. However, you cannot tween QuickTime movie content in Flash. You can apply any of the actions listed in the Basic Actions category in the Actions panel to an imported QuickTime movie.

When you import a QuickTime movie, only the first frame of the movie is displayed. You must add frames to the imported movie's Timeline in order to view additional frames in the movie in Flash. A QuickTime movie imported into Flash does not become part of the Flash file. Instead, Flash maintains a pointer to the source file.

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.

To set the directory path of a QuickTime movie file:

1 Choose Window > Library and select the QuickTime movie you want to edit.
2 In the Options menu in the upper right corner of the Library window, choose Properties and click Set Path in the Video Properties dialog box.


If you'll scroll down in this forum... might be far aways... there was a thread about inserting movies!

;-)

 

[scottyjohn]

This was very helpful oldnewbie, I have successfully integrated my exported JPEG sequence into my flash movie but the size is massive!

Is there any way in which you can build a swf which references and plays the QTime movie as an external object?

John

 

[oldnewbie]

You could probably open a popup with your embedded QT movie in it, that would be a reference to an external object... Or, which depending may not be appropriate, if you want to keep your Flash menu available for instance, open a new window (with _self), thus replacing your Flash movie with your embedded QT in a html.

Regards,

ldnewbie