Adding extra functions to flash video skin

Is it possible to add an email button or link to a custom
flash video skin, and script it so it only appears at the
conclusion of the video?

Answer: You can add your movieClip or button to FLVPlayBack
component, like i did.
uFlvPlayer.addChild(PlayTime_txt);
It works in FullScreen mode now.

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it doesn't work.
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(Is this even the correct forum area for this? I am new to
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When I Insert a Flash Video the second drop down box is
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two types add the Play Bar on to the video which shows when
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The Halo option is what I want, a play bar at the bottom,
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Yes. All in my flash folder. Skin is call SkinUnderAll.swf. I did notice in Dremweaver that this file does not show up in the code with the rest of the video code. When I add the video swf do I still need to add the skin file also. I was thinking that I wouldn't have to.

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Hello everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble with a Flash
Video file. I'm helping a friend out by doing some work on his
webpage. He had a video that he wanted to put up on his news page,
so I converted the video to an flv and used the flv player
component to make a video player linked it. I uploaded the skin's
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I made an iframe pointing to the player.swf file in the news
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firefox, only the video loads and just sits there (autoplay is
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I created my flash video with a video skin I selected in CS4 and the skin file shows up in the same folder as the video but when I add the swf file to dreamweaver CS4 the controls that should show up underneath the video are not there. Does anyone have an answer because I'm going crazy.

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Are there any plug ins I can use to add more options to the skins that are currently available in CS3? I need a skin that displays UNDER the video, not on top of it and with timing and video length. I am not a programmer, I'm just inserting flash videos into webpages and am stuck with the choices that dreamweaver cs3 provides, non of which is what I need. Please help me!

DW's skin choices are limited because it's not a Flash application. If you're good with Action Script, you could build your own custom player in Flash or you could use any of the pre-built Flash players on the web.
FLV Player ~
http://www.video-flash.de/flv-flash-fullscreen-video-player/
WWD Player ~
http://www.woosterwebdesign.com/flvplayer/
Wimpy Rave ~
http://www.wimpyplayer.com/index.html
JW Player ~
http://www.longtailvideo.com/
FlowPlayer ~
http://flowplayer.org/
YouTube ~
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/getting_started.html
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
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Adding accessibility to a Flash Video in Captivate distorts the slide text

Greetings,
I need to add accessibility to a few 3 minute Flash Video files in Captivate. I tried to use closed captioning but it is distorting the text on the slide as there is so much text to provide. I have the transcription of the audio and could close caption it, assuming the displayed course does not then overwrite text elementsin the original slide. An image is attached to show this problem.
thoughts?
Thanks,
AMP

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When I export my flash project, and import it into dreamweaver, i go to the trailer page and the video, one, won't give me the skin to hit play, stop, pause, rewind, volume, etc. and two, when you travel to another page it continues to play the movie in the background. Can someone please help me fix these issues please!
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Adding intro/outro to Flash video

Hi there,
Sorry for cross-posting, but I posted this to the plain Flash
forum a
few weeks ago and got no response. I'm wondering if this is a
better
venue for it, so I'll try again:
We have created a series of short video product reviews that
are all
being loaded dynamically into a common SWF container
something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var so = new
SWFObject("/swf/movie.swf?video=http://images.ourserver.com/product_reviews/SS13.flv",
"myMovie", "320", "277", "8", "#FFFFFF");
so.addParam("base", "/swf/");
so.write("noFlash");
// ]]>
</script>
We want to add a simple common intro and outro (logo fading
to video for
intro and logo fading back in for outro). Is there a cool and
clean way
to do this as part of the Flash movie rather than having to
insert it
into each QT movie beforehand?
The biggest problem seems to be determining when to begin the
outro
since all the videos are slightly different durations. Is
there some way
to use script to determine when each video is ending and
trigger the
closing animation?
Thanks for any help with this,
Don Hinshaw

open the xml file and look at it. it should be obvious how it corresponds with the video.
then read the flash help files about working with cue points. read the section(s) that relate to your actionscript version and which class (netstream, flvplayback component) you're using to play your flv.

Flash video skin controls not appearing on web page

Hi
I have a puzzle. I have some test movie clips that are
operated (played) by pressing a thumbnail. All works ok in the
resultinmg html and flash file that is produced, but when I import
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plays...
if you look at the link below you can see the flash movie
controls in operation OK
http://www.chrisleslie.co.uk/new/flash/8movietest.html
but when the flash doc is inserted into the actual page the
controls disappear......
http://www.chrisleslie.co.uk/new/Film.htm
(press thumbnail 2 to play the test movie)
any ideas would be greatly received...im at a loss here and
heading for the vodka.......

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I'm new to using iMovie or similar programs for converting/merging video and audio, so any help that steers me in the right direction is greatly appreciated.
I made an mp4 file of a movie, and want to add an audio track to the mp4 file. The audio track is an mp3 file. However, in order for me to have the new audio track sync up with the video, I need the audio track to start playing before the movie begins. Please note that I'm not interested in burning this to a DVD; I just want a new mp4 file with the extra audio track.
With this in mind:
1) What program would be best for merging an mp3 file with an mp4 video file, plus adding extra time to the video in order to accommodate the extra time in the audio track? I have iMovie HD 6.0.3, and the latest version of Handbrake, unless another program is better for this task.
2) What steps do I need to perform to merge the two files? I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in Handbrake, and importing the mp4 file in iMovie will take forever.
As I said, I'm new to using these programs, so if you need me to clarify anything, please ask and I'll do my best to help out. Thanks!

QuickTime Player Pro ($30) can do the job in just a few seconds. Its .mov container can have up to 99 tracks.
Open the .mp4 file, select all and Copy.
Switch to the .mp3 file, move the playhead to the needed start point and paste in the entire .mp4 file.
The hardest part is a pencil and paper to note the time of each file to find the proper insertion point.

More Flash Video controller skins

I use DW CS3. I'm a very basic-level user doing business
sites/pages and need to get things moving fast. I'm not much into
HTML coding.
I love the fact that when I have a page in DW it's simple to
choose "Insert - Media - Flash Video..." and I get the list of
choices for the file to insert and the dropdown of built-in
players/skins to use. I typically create 640x480 videos and I
typically choose the last one in the list: Halo 3. I always just
choose "Detect Size" and that's it.
However, I really need to add "current time" and "total time"
indicators ("Min:Sec" format) so viewers will know the time they're
in for and so I can have advisors comment on particular sections in
the content of given videos.
I really, really, REALLY want to end up with the same
luxuriously simple functionality that I have now with the current
built-in choice: Just choose it from the drop-down, choose "Detect
Size" and be done with it and move on.
I'd also really like to stay with the generally minimalistic,
clean, sleek, professional look that the Halo skin provides (well,
it's very similar to the typical YouTube skin for that matter).
And I'd really like for it to be truly debugged and 100%
reliable, functional, and compatible with the DW CS3 program.
I'm happy to pay to buy what I'm after.
(Note: If it just can't be done and doesn't exist, then
please guide me to the simplest path for achieving the closest
thing to this by placing HTML code and files in folders as needed
-- or anything else you can suggest.)
Thanks!

>>I'm not much into HTML coding.
Then DW isn't going to be of much use to you.
Walt
"JayNewWeb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:ge3kmt$884$[email protected]..
>I use DW CS3. I'm a very basic-level user doing business
sites/pages and
>need
> to get things moving fast. I'm not much into HTML
coding.
>
> I love the fact that when I have a page in DW it's
simple to choose
> "Insert -
> Media - Flash Video..." and I get the list of choices
for the file to
> insert
> and the dropdown of built-in players/skins to use. I
typically create
> 640x480
> videos and I typically choose the last one in the list:
Halo 3. I always
> just
> choose "Detect Size" and that's it.
>
> However, I really need to add "current time" and "total
time" indicators
> ("Min:Sec" format) so viewers will know the time they're
in for and so I
> can
> have advisors comment on particular sections in the
content of given
> videos.
>
> I really, really, REALLY want to end up with the same
luxuriously simple
> functionality that I have now with the current built-in
choice: Just
> choose it
> from the drop-down, choose "Detect Size" and be done
with it and move on.
>
> I'd also really like to stay with the generally
minimalistic, clean,
> sleek,
> professional look that the Halo skin provides (well,
it's very similar to
> the
> typical YouTube skin for that matter).
>
> And I'd really like for it to be truly debugged and 100%
reliable,
> functional,
> and compatible with the DW CS3 program.
>
> I'm happy to pay to buy what I'm after.
>
> (Note: If it just can't be done and doesn't exist, then
please guide me to
> the
> simplest path for achieving the closest thing to this by
placing HTML code
> and
> files in folders as needed -- or anything else you can
suggest.)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

Trouble adding flash video

I am following the directions in Dreamweaver CS3 The Missing Manual for adding a flash video to my webpage. I did the following:
Insert>Media>Flash Video
Selected Progressive Download from the Video Type box,
Browsed and selected my video ("newsmakers.flv)
Used the default skin
Clicked the detect size button and checked the auto play and auto rewind boxes.
Clicked ok.
Then an error message comes up......(see attached screen print)
"Making this change would require changing code that is locked by a template or translator. The change will be discarded."
The only choice I have is to say ok. I am not sure what to do. I don't know what this will do. The book does not address this error.
The entire site is built on a template if that is any help.

The problem has to do with your editable regions in your template source code. If you go to the source code of your template look at the code between <head> and </head> If you do not have an editable region there then you will need to add one in the code view. This is because when you edit a page based on that template DW will fail to add the code because it needs to add header code in addition to the code it inserts at the point of where you want the video to appear on the page. So if both editable regions do not exist DW cannot continue.

How do I specify where a skin is located when publishing a Flash Video?

I'm creating Flash video's using the Import/Video wizard.
When I go to publish the video, I want the HTML file located in a
different (parent) directory from all the other video files, so
that all my HTML files for the site are in the root directory. The
problem is when I change the publish settings to create the HTML in
a different location, the video works properly but it doesn't find
where the skin is located and the skin doesn't show up. I thought
it would be simple to just change the HTML code to point to where
the skin is but I can't locate any references to the skin (name or
location) in any of the HTML code. How do I change the code to
accurately reflect where the skin is located???
thanks for any responses.

Select the FLV Playback component instance, change skin
parameter at components inspector or parameters tab on property
inspector, select "Custom Skin URL" for the skin option, and set
the path of your player skin relative to your html.
e.g.
your html file located at web root directory, all swf files
located in a subfolder named 'swf', so if you are using the skin
ArcticOverAll.swf, type in the URL field:
swf/ArcticOverAll.swf
Alternatively, you can also type the full path of your skin
file on your web server.
e.g.
http://www.yourwebsite.com/somefolder/swf/ArcticOverAll.swf

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