Beginner -- how to do dissolving slides into action load .flv

Hi there,
Rather than try to teach myself the details of Flash from
scratch (like I really should), can someone show me this?
Here's what I need and I'm looking for something idiotically
simple; I don't know code and really don't want to spend lots of
time editing .xml files with individual file names, etc.; I'd like
something where I can use the Flash interface to import images,
swap bitmaps, etc. -- in other words, just use the program
interface to achieve the following:
In a 360x240 area, play a slideshow of images that dissolve
one into the other (ideally, I'd have one 360x240 image
'underneath' and then several 360x220 or so images 'on top' so that
the bottom part of the image in the back shows through -- this
would be an image that says "click for preview" at bottom; I'm
assuming I save a few bits of memory that way and in any case, it's
easier to use existing images than to have to photoshop a bunch of
images with 'click for preview' at the bottom of each given how
many I have to do)....anyway....
So you've got that slideshow of dissolving images that loops.
When it's clicked, a video loads and plays in that same area.
You guys will probably find it hard to believe -- or
pathetic, or both -- but I don't even know how to do that much:
make a few images dissolve into each other on the stage.
Anyway, when the video that was called up (.flv) is done
playing, it returns to the dissolving images again.
That's about it.
As an example of how retarded I'm doing it now for
comparison:
I've got a page with a .swf file that does the dissolving
images that is in a frame on the page.
When you click on that, the .swf loads another PAGE into the
frame.
That page that's loaded has on it nothing but the video
preview in .swf format whick plays.
When the .swf video finishes playing, the .swf then loads the
dissolving images page back into the frame.
I did it like that because: I've been using swish which lets
me make a .swf and specify a URL to launch at the end automatically
so it's easy to do. I don't know how to do that in Flash myself,
nor do I -- obviously -- know how to put the dissolving images and
video launching into one Flash project. And finally, in Dreamweaver
I've found that for some reason when I try to put .flv videos onto
some pages, it won't let me because I have a template on that page
whose rules would be violated or something.
I'd really like to do it in Flash though with the .flv being
called up by the dissolving images .swf thingy since the .flv is
sooo much smaller than making the video in .swf
Here's an example of how it looks now by the way:
http://www.bwnvideo.com/Catalog/Straight%20Up%20Wrestling%20Series/Straight%20Up%20Wrestli ng2/straightup2.htm
Help me out! ;-) Thanks!

Hi Martin and welcome to our community
I suppose one way to do this would be to import the slide
stack from PowerPoint into one Captivate presentation, then create
output. Then create a new Captivate presentation that is sized
rather large. Insert the video on the left and the other Captivate
output on the right. This is how you would have both being seen at
the same time. Synchronizing will be a real challenge with this.
As for the menu similar to Articulate Presenter, that will be
a bit difficult to do as well. Especially with the approach I
suggested above. Captivate does have a built in menu generator
(Click Project > Skin... > Menu tab) but I'm doubtful it will
behave as you are expecting. Also, making changes after you have
created a menu will be frustrating.
Sorry I've not been a wealth of good news here, but that's
how I understand things to work.
Cheers... Rick

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