Best Way to Embed Flash in DW??

What is the best way to embed a flash movie in Dreamweaver
w/o messing up cells/rows of a previous creation?
I have a site together & want to insert a movie on a page
& keep the nav bar the same from all the other pages , when I
insert the Flash movie it royally messes up all the rows &
cells
here's the site
www.castleblak.com
just want to keep the nav bar same on all pages!
thanks!

tommypenngotti,
> What is the best way to embed a flash movie in
Dreamweaver
> w/o messing up cells/rows of a previous creation?
"Messing up cells/rows" could mean quite a few things. For
example, you
would certainly have trouble trying to pack a 550 x 200 SWF
into a cell
whose dimensions were 50 x 22. Is that what you mean?
> I have a site together & want to insert a movie on a
page &
> keep the nav bar the same from all the other pages ,
when I
> insert the Flash movie it royally messes up all the rows
& cells
I checked out your URL, but didn't see any Flash on the home
page. In
fact, I didn't see Flash on any of the pages, but admittedly,
I only clicked
into a a few. I wonder if you mean that Flash content appears
*on top* of
your drop-down navigation -- is that it? If so, there's an
Adobe TechNote
on this issue, described here ...
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-position-flash-beneath-other-content
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"brentwic" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> What is teh best way to embed video in DW? Quicktime,
WMV, streaming? I
> have
> tried a few with varing results across different
browsers...
>
> And suggestions - I have seen some very cool interfaces
out there but
> sadly
> the source for the player interfaces I cannot find..
>
> Any help would be appreciated..
>
> I need the ability to set auto play or not - and other
options for video
> in
> the browser window or at least in DW.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>

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Good Day!
First of all, I have created a website for a client of mine
but whenever they wanted to
visit their 100% Flash website, they can see the 'Flash
Detection - Download Flash
Player from Adobe' prompt but they could not install the
downloaded Flash Player
as they got an error something like ' You don't have
privilages . Please contact your
Admin.'
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> We are a fortune 500 media company in mid-town
Manhattan.
>
> What would be the best way to obtain flash resources for
our flash video
> project?
>
> Should I get a macromedia consultant, or look for
someone from the
> outside?
>
> I agree that macromedia consultant may not get us the
most bang for our
> buck,
> but I would like to make sure I cover myself. If
something happens, I
> could at
> least say I had macromedia involved.
>
> I was thinking of maybe a part-time macromedia
consultant, and another
> developer outside of macromedia.
>
> What our my options?
>
>

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> dreamer thanks for the response....
>
> however i wasnt asking how to do it......
>
> i am asking what people think is the best method of
doing it.........
>
> should i embed a .mov file or should i import the move
into flash and then
> embed the flash file? should i embed a .wmv file?
>
> etc etc....
>

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>I have a video clip that I neede dto break down into
pieces and put in
>viewable
> form on a website. The file is currently a .wmv file.
>
> My plan was to use flash to make files that I could
embed in the website,
> and
> the end user could click on it to play it in the web
page. In reading how
> to do
> it in flash, it looked like there was some action script
requirements, I
> am not
> sure best how to make it happen.
>
> What is the best way to get my videos on the site?
Should I stick with
> flash,
> or get a reasonably priced 3rd party program that
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> or go
> another route?
>
> (PS- what would be the best format of movie to use as
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It has been a nice run of about 7 or 8 years now that we have developed Flash browser based games for the web exclusively. Of course with the ubiquity of mobile devices, things have changed. Clients are starting to demand, almost assume, that games will work in the browser - on the desktop and on their tablets.
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Thanks again Winston. (You helped me out in the past).
In my playing around, I was leaning toward AIC with a compressor pre-set of 1080i or p would give me decent results on export. I'm still a little confused over a number of the other options, and this seemed simplistic. (I'm still learning here as I go).
One question on that though if you would. Am I best off leaving the FPS settings to current? I am assuming I can experiment with that if I want to keep a computer copy, but for back to tape purposes, that seems to make sense to my simple mind.
On a side note, I was quite surprised at how good the default "large" export looks when viewed on the computer. I may keep that as my default for iTunes\Front Row.
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