Client Web Review Videos (Flash CS4)

As part of our video production process, we used to encode client review AVI videos in Flash and publish them from Flash. Once published, I would open the published HTML file with notepad and copy and paste the appropriate Flash related code into a template on our web server. The Flash code would be pasted in an html table cell in the template html file.
This method consistently produced Web review videos that worked fine and played immediately.
The process has changed with CS4. Now Flash doesn't accept and transcode an AVI file. You have to transcode the AVI in Media Encoder and then import the *.flv or *.f4v file into a Flash Project via the Import video function.
Here is the problem I have... The finished product that used to work on our server will now play fine locally, but refuses to play on the server. The server is based on "Free BSD".
I had the server administrator check the MIME types and he entered them last night for flv and f4v files. I haven't had time to try again, but what makes me skeptical regarding the MIME type issue is that Flash, flv or f4v based video exported from Encore play fine on our server.
My thoughts are, it is either an issue related to a Microsoft fault, like the fact that PhotoShop files no longer display preview thumbnails in Windows Explorer, or the problem is related to an extra "hidden" step I am not taking with CS4 in order to make Flash CS4 videos play on a web server.
I have addressed this in the Flash forum. I got one response from another guy having the same problem, but he said has not received any feedback whatsoever that has been helpful in resolving this problem.
My final thoughts are this:
Flash video created in Flash CS4 won't play on our server but the same f4v and flv files created and exported from Encore CS4 will. My suspicion is that In Flash CS4, I have to create an accompanying Java Script file or something, that is published to the server as well... Or possibly I need to install a Flash Extension that enables Flash exported video to play on a server.
You might ask, why use Flash when Encore works. The reason is, Encore isn't flexible with the video controllers. Our clients want to be able to easily scrub to certain points in the review video. Also, I want our review videos to be enclosed within our Website template with our company's navigation buttons.
Any thoughts?

I've always enjoyed working in Flash. To be really good at it, you need a strong creative right brain as well as a good handle on programming, particularly Java Script and Flash's Action Script. I would need to learn programming to expand my creativity with Flash. Web design can be a frustrating profession. Back in 97' a guy who referred to himself as a scientist, taught me the basics of Web design. He claimed to have developed the technique of "slicing" images and optimizing the pieces individually and placing the image pieces in HTML table cells. He meticulously hand coded all of his clien'ts websites. I remember checking in on one of his masterpiece websites a few years later, only to see things all messed up. The thing basically fell apart. I don't know if it was because the browser I was using didn't read the HTML in a standard way or what. But the site looked terrible. You think we have problems in the video production business... try building websites for a living.
The Flash video my original post is about was created for a producer friend, who's trying to get some people interested in a reality TV series. I tried to make the Web page where the Flash is embedded more interesting by using a jpg background referenced in the HTML using a java script that "stretched" the image to fit any browser window size. I thought the finished page looked great. We tested it on several computers, and everything looked and worked fine. The first important guy to look at the page couldn't see the video, just the background. I took the background out. I got another phone call from someone who said they couldn't see the video and their computer was asking if they started a process and for permission to continue installing a Flash Player update. I said, yes, this is a Flash based video you are about to look at, so go ahead and install the Flash Player update. Then there are people who work in a corporate setting where system administrators restrict certain Windows updates related to media. Other people never install any Windows updates and are running with expired anti-virus software.
I enjoy working with Flash and even occassionally doing some Web design, I'm just glad I don't have to deal with Web compatibility problems day in and day out.

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1.
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2.
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I just wanted to let everyone know that the Flash CS4 Help is
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being refined. The help topics are still being indexed, so you may
not see them in search results for several more days.
In the meantime, you can browse all the Help titles that have
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Using Adobe ActionScript 3.0 Components:
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Developing Adobe Flash Lite 2.x and 3.x Applications:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashLite/2.0_FlashLiteDevGuide2/index.html
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashLite/2.0_FlashLiteAPIReference2/index.html
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Jay Armstrong here. I’m one of the writers who works on
the Flash docs.
Regarding this comment and the many others in other threads
that have added important details about the issues with the help
workflow, and in particular the ActionScript help workflow: We hear
your pain and we are working to implement solutions to these
issues.
I understand that this new help workflow is more painful than
in CS3 when you had the Help right in its own panel in the product.
Here’s some background:
The implementation of Help within the Flash Help panel prior
to CS4 required that *all* the Help files be installed on the local
drive with the product, resulting in some issues that we tried to
address in CS4. Including Help on the installation disc caused
issues including:
- Required that Help be completed much earlier for
localization and end-game testing.
- Resulted in static Help files that had been completed early
in the development cycle, sometimes not accounting for last minute
UI or other changes.
- A long install process.
- Crowded the installation disc.
These aren't meant to be full explanations of why we made the
changes, but just some background as to some of the things we were
thinking about. Clearly the decisions we came to weren't the right
ones for many users. We are intent on making things better.
Moving Help online makes it possible to update Help on an
ongoing basis, allows users to comment on and embellish the Help,
and allows us to add links from the help out to new articles,
tutorials, videos, and code samples on adobe.com and throughout the
Flash web community. One of you rightly pointed out that the Adobe
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the updater would have required much more rigorous certification by
us of any update packages and the update/install process for each.
We actually are updating the online help files very frequently, so
this process would have been a major barrier to these updates.
We’ve had a struggle about how to deliver the Flash
Help for a long time, as we have a lot of users who have been quite
vocal about not liking the Help panel consuming space within the
Flash window as well as users who really want it there so they
don’t have to leave the IDE.
Having said all that, I still totally understand what
you’re saying about losing your code, glance, code, glance,
code workflow. As you probably know, we’ve been getting a lot
of feedback about this, along with other issues that online Help
has caused. We are actively looking at ways of solving these, but
the Help-in-a-browser issue a difficult problem, as this aspect of
the Help implementation is baked fairly deep into the CS4 product.
Since CS4 shipped, we have implemented solutions to some of the
issues with Help raised by users, such as allowing you to select
the default destination of F1 (though Flash CS4 always went to the
actual Help system rather than the Flash Help and Support page,
which is what these users wanted in other products). I just
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for viewing Help within Flash itself. As noted in this thread,
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viewers, such as Jamie Kosoy, Technical Director at Big Spaceship,
whose AIR application for the CS4 Language Reference docs is
available at
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2008/12/09/air-app-as3-language-reference/.
We knew that people use the AS3 Language Reference a lot, so
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disable online connections as described earlier in this thread, and
it still opens in a web browser and still has the same navigation
interface as the online version. You can also download a local copy
of the AS Reference, which does get updated periodically and can be
viewed locally regardless of the state of your internet connection,
but it also is all html and opens in a web browser. As previously
noted, the download is available here:
http://help.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/10/ActionScript3LangRef.zip.
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those too.
In some of the other threads out there about the Help, people
have raised issues about the contents navigation in the CS4 version
of the ASLR as well. We are listening to all these issues and
actively working on solutions that will address these questions.
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see online or local content, whether you see it inside the IDE or
in a separate application, etc.
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Web based videos (youtube etc) have no sound and then stops after 4 seconds

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I can 'scroll' the time line anywhere, and the video plays from that point for another 4 seconds -still without sound.
Ive tried to upgrade to the lates version of flash player, and no difference.
This aplies to all web based videos that uses a flash based video player.
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Hi sorry for the delay in responding.
I'm not using any client side code as far as I am aware.
I think I should have said: Flash CS3 video Encoder, as I am
running both Production Premium Creative Suite 3, and also CS3 Web
Premium.
All I did was convert some AVI files that went through
Premiere Pro CS3 and After Affects etc, in Flash Video Encoder. I'm
not doing any live streaming.
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CS3, I choose Insert / Flash Video and choose the Streaming
options, I fill out the rtmp details ( I have another thread on an
issue there as a firewall blocks some of the files and I cannot use
rtmpt) and it works!!
If you have a suggestion for a better workflow or precedure I
would appreciate it.
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I like to learn new things but I have spent HOURS online and just can't find out how to do this. I've had a good look around flash but unfortunately I just can't dedicate days or weeks to learning the entire program.
From what I can gather so far:
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Lauren

I
don't have CS4 so I am not familiar with the new way of tweening, only
with what CS4 calls classic tweens, which is what I grew up with in
Flash. What I described for you is based on classic tweens.
While those in in the know
(a few) praise the wonders of the new tweens, general concensus in these
forums for those that question them is that trying/learning to work
with the new tweens is not straightforward.
As far as movieclip versus
graphic goes, neither is preferable over the other. Both will perform
in a tween. Movieclips are useful when you have more to do with the
object than just display it.
The difference with the motion tweens is that the motion tweens are built to be easily scalable and to provide a graphical interface for easily updating/editing the tweens visually (including path, timing etc). Classic tween is what you want for your project so you're on the right track. As far as the difference between a movieclip and a bitmap not mattering, well it depends really on the scale of the project but best practice is to go with the smaller class. The movieclip class is massive, one of the largest because it is a dynamic type and is near the bottom of the chain of inheritance on the flash displayobject list. So, the bitmap class would be probably like 1/10th the file size of the movieclip class, so go with bitmap. Since flash is primarily a web technology and I'm sure you're doing this project for a website, every byte matters. Imagine the difference in filesize is 5 kb just because of what classes you decide to use but you decide to deploy the project on a website with 5 million users. Thats 25 gigabytes of wasted bandwidth. Anyway that doesn't really apply to you because you're doing timeline tweens and the flash IDE will automatically import all of those bulky classes anyway, but it's good to keep in mind if you decide to pursue getting deeper into flash and working with actionscript.
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<files>
    <file filename="171_2784_2.jpg" />
    <file filename="165_2564_0.jpg" />
    <file filename="171_2690_2.jpg" />
    <file filename="171_2735_1.jpg" />
</files>
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import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.Strong;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
var listIndex:int = 0;
var nextImage:Bitmap = new Bitmap();
var listOfImages:Array = new Array();
var listLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
listLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, parseFileList);
listLoader.load(new URLRequest("images/filelist.xml"));
var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var cycleTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 0);
cycleTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, beginImageCycling);
function parseFileList(e:Event):void
    //trace(e.currentTarget.data); //Uncomment this to debug and see what data is coming in
    var fileListXML:XML;
    try{
        fileListXML= new XML(e.currentTarget.data);
    }catch(e:Error){
        trace("The file list is either not well formed XML or not XML at all");
    var a:Number;
    //Get an XMLList object which will contain all of the children of the fileListXML
    var fileList:XMLList = fileListXML.children();
    for(a = 0; a < fileList.length(); ++a){
        trace(fileList[a].attribute("filename"));
        listOfImages.push(fileList[a].attribute("filename"));
    trace("Done parsing file list XML");
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function beginImageCycling(e:TimerEvent = null):void
    imageLoader = new Loader();
    imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showNextImage);
    imageLoader.load(new URLRequest("images/" + listOfImages[listIndex]));
    listIndex++;
    if(listIndex >= listOfImages.length){
        //This will reset the index and begin looping from the images from the start
        listIndex = 0;
function showNextImage(e:Event):void
    trace("Image loaded, get ready to show it");
    nextImage = e.currentTarget.content as Bitmap;
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    tw.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, changeOutImage);
    tw.start();
function changeOutImage(e:Event):void
    while(imageContainer.numChildren > 2){
        trace("removing old images");
        imageContainer.removeChildAt(0);
    //Add the new image to the container, in this case the stage
    imageContainer.addChild(nextImage);
    var tw:Tween = new Tween(nextImage, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 1, 1, true);
    //Restart the timer to cycle images
    cycleTimer.reset();
    cycleTimer.start();
In the menu go to Control--->Play. That should do it, it should cycle through those images over and over. I'm at work doing this on my lunch I'll post a completed project/demo of this later when I get home and give you an intro to actionscript by covering the code I've put here. Anyway so now the benefit of doing things this way is that if you want to adjust the transition time, you simply go to the :Tween = new Tween lines and change this:
Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 1, 1, true);
to:
Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 2, 1, true);
Which will change the transition time from 1 second to 2 seconds. Or, say if you want to add new pictures, all you have to do is change that XML and copy in new pictures, something even your client could do (which is sure to make them happy).
Anyway I'll post later even if you don't need this anymore it may be useful to somoene else who finds this topic one day. .:)
-Jesse

Flash CS4 crash when scrolling

Hi,
Today one of our artists started experiencing a crash in Flash CS4 Professional when scrolling the workspace around in one of his .fla files. All he has to do is hold down the spacebar and scroll around with the mouse; or use the scrollbars to scroll around. It has crashed about 10 times in the last hour, and we copied the file over to another machine and saw the crash there as well. We've only seen it occur with one particular file.
The machines are both Intel Core i7 machines with 8GB of RAM and two different video cards, one running Windows 7 and the other running Vista; and the crashes cause the Adobe "let me report this crash to the mothership" dialog box, so I don't think it's video card driver related; I think it's just a bug in Flash Professional. We're running version 10.0.2 with no updates available to Flash Professional when choosing "Updates..." from the Help menu.
Anybody else seen this? Any workarounds? Any way to get Adobe to fix it?
Thanks - BD

Hi Jen,
I'm putting the file up on our website for you to grab.
Please treat this file confidentially.
Point your web browser to http://www.torpexgames.com/adobeflashcs4 where the username is "addeden" and the password is "cs4bluetop".
We included the fonts we're using, too.
Thanks,
Bill Dugan
President
Torpex Games
[email protected]
425 644 4263

Ebook of tutorial - PHP 5 & Flash cs4

im looking for a descent book or tutorial wich will teach me how to put php in flash cs4
i got a book here at school, but its for AS 2.0 ...
no point in reading that one ..
thx in advance
grtzzzzzz

Here are some basic tuts for the same :-
http://www.flashconf.com/actionscript/how-to-mail-flash-form-with-actionscript/
http://video-tutorial.eu/free-video-tutorial/web-design/flashvars-and-php-tutorial-send-dy namic-variable-into-flash.html

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