Combining movies in one flash movie

I have an assignment, teacher wants us to take all of our projects(5), add buttons to them, and put them into another Flash project, as a slideshow. She refuses to show us how to do this. I am at wits end. All she ever wants to show us is how to make a ball bounce. (she's in her 70's)

Eureka! I've solved it so no need for help after all. The trick was to not select Frame Reordering when exporting from iMovie. Frame reordering was the culprit.
Mark

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Embed one Flash movie into another

I have two flash movies (fm1 and fm2). fm2 is imported into
fm1 and contains a function
function test()
return(123);
fm1 also contains a function
function test2()
return(456)
I'd like to call the function test from fm1 and also call
test2 from fm2.
Is this possible?

Yes but you will have to locate the function. For example:
_parent.test1(); can be called from fm2
If you load fm2 into a movieclip which has the Instance Name
"fm2" then you can get to the function in fm2 by using
_root.fm2.test2();
I hope it helps.

Load a Captivate movie in a Flash movie

I'm trying to load a captivate 5.5 swf into flash, even with a simple script like:
import flash.display.MovieClip;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("captivate.swf");
var cargar:Loader = new Loader()
cargar.load(request);
var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
this.addChild(mc);
addChild(cargar);
I get an actionscript error:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: No se ha definido la variable pbcBtnTips_FRA.
at Aluminum_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
ReferenceError: Error #1065: No se ha definido la variable pbcBtnTips_SPA.
at Localization/frame1()
This seems to be happen only to non-english Captivates, ie Spanish version.
Any ideas?

You could pause the Captivate project when you start to preload it by using the Captivate system variables. Then when your file has been loaded 100% you could resume it again by using a different system variable.
You can see a list of the various system variables here: http://www.cpguru.com/2009/04/28/system-variables-in-captivate-4-%e2%80%93-a-complete-list /
The relevant variables for you would be:
rdcmndPause = 1; (to pause the project)
rdcmndResume = 1; (to resume playback)
Naturally you need the instancename (where you load your Captivate movie into) infront of the variable name.
myLoaderContainer.rdcmndPause = 1;
/Michael

Link flash movies to text

I am trying to linking each FLV movie imported into the Library to a word on my Samples page. Ex. Wedding linked to a wedding clip, School play linked to a school play clip. Unfortunately, the add interaction button only allows me to select the first movie that was brought into the Samples page.
How can I link multiple movies to one flash movie player?

http://www.webdesigndev.com/flash/flash-catalyst-tutorial-101-creating-an-interactive-vide o-gallery-quickly-without-writing-any-code
The link above shows how to link artwork to specific FLV videos. It seems a little more difficult using only words.

White boundary line around flash movie

Hi,
When I use a flash movie on an HTML page it all looks good in
Mozilla Firefox. In IE on the other hand, it sucks, because when
you move your move over the flash movie you see a white boundaty
box. Which makes it all look very silly.
How do I get rid of that?
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give me.
FatalDestiny

uh oh - here we go again - duck and cover!!!!!
If i had a nickel everytime this was asked in the past few
months i would have....let's see - go here:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*flash*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
(the google archive of the forum)
and search for "active content".
A total of 362 (and rising everyday) returns.
Multiply that by $.5
I think I would end up with $181. (is my math correct?)
Anyway you get the point. Search the forums first - it was
just asked and answered at least twice
just yesterday. It unfortunately will be asked again today a
couple more times, and then tomorrow
and the next day and....
Most of us are simply too tired to even respond to this
anymore but we understand that searching for
the right terminology is often hard to discern.
But here's the url that has been posted here a couple hundred
times already - guess it can't hurt to
paste it again :)
http://activecontent.blogspot.com
If you search google for "active content" you will realize
just how popular this little bit of tech
news was/has been over the last 6 months - been all over
blogs and news sites for a while.
There are methods to combat this on this site (yes,
adobe.com) and all you have to do is search
adobe to find:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/
An entire section devoted to this issue.
When you hover over any active content in IE you will see
this:
http://www.mudbubble.com/staging/ac.jpg
See the little tool tip instructing you what to do? If you
google that ("Click to activate and use
this control" or similar), you will find 2,050,000 returns
(wow)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--> Adobe Certified Expert
--> www.mudbubble.com
--> www.keyframer.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wutacrock wrote:
> apparently the thread is not in the general forum
anymore. can anyone help with these white boundary. how can i get
rid of them? i'm trying to make a website and i can't stand these
boundaries.

Urgent: How to export a Director cast member - in this case it's a flash movie?

Hi there,
I've got a problem - of course, that's why I'm here.
My problem is that in my Director (version 11.5) movie a flash movie is member of the cast list (sorry, I only know the German terms and hope totranslate correctly!). In it's properties there's no source-URL. So it must be "in" the Director film somehow.
Unfortunately the original file went lost. Now I need to have this flash movie as a flash movie, not as a member/ cast. Is there any possibility to get the movie out of Director als a file?
Thanks so much for your help!
Kind regards
Jana

Hi Sean,
thanks for that hint! I downloaded and extracted the Xtra into the Director Xtra folder. Then I tried to use the function "exportSWF", but it told me the handler is undefined.
Unfortunately I'm a real Lingo beginner and don't know anything about Xtra usage.
I used the following code:
m = member("Player")
exportSWF( m, "/output.swf", TRUE )
I'm sure that line 1 gives me the flash movie as a member, because it is used like that in the code already.
I thought with the Xtra I can simply use the exportSWF-funcion. What else is to do to use it??
Thanks in advance!
Jana

Looping flash movie

I have created a flash website... on the first page i want to
enter a simple motion tween movie( i imported it)... i can do that
but it keeps looping... i unchecked Loop in html and added stop();
in the last keyframe but still the movie loops any ideas how to
stop this??? I am using flash 8
ps im inserting a flash movie within a flash movie(this
should not make a diference)
here is what i have found.... i am trying to replace an image
in a flash website with a movie... it continuously loops it appears
you need to add the Stop(); asctionscript wilthin the website and
not the move (.swf) imported.... thats where the problem lies is it
not possible to add Stop(); in the movie itself???? I have tried
this and it does not work???
Puzzled

If the offending loop is from the main timeline of the
imported swf and on the last keyframe of that timeline you entered
a stop(); and that didn't help maybe you should call an exorcist.
Or maybe there is another timeline in the imported swf that's
looping like a MovieClip?

Trouble Combining 2 QT Movies Into One

Help! I have QT Pro but this is driving me nuts! I am using select all, copy and then paste to combine 2 separate 20 second QT movies into one 40 second consolidated movie. The trouble is that when the play head reaches the beginning of the second movie, it continues to advance, but the sound and motion simply stop at the end of Move 1 and beginning of Movie 2.
I think it may have something to do with the little tabs that slide back and forth for include, exclude but I'm not sure. Also, when I select all and then try to use the "Copy" command, its grayed out. I have to click on either one of the first or second movies before "Copy" becomes available to me. Something is going on but I can't figure it out, despite several hours of "playing with it", checking the forums here and calling Tech Support at Apple.
Yikes! has anybody else run into this before?
Sign me as visually impaired

By the way, I think I got 2 of these cotton picken files to join together seamlesy last night. I need to kind of confirm that and (if I can double check and then replicate my success) will explain how.Would be interested in seeing the result. Streamclip should provide best results for two reasons -- 1) it allows "near" (if not frame-level) setting of in/out points (unlike QT which only operates at specific GOP intervals of MPEG-1/2 content and 2) it allows you to "fix" timecode breaks that can wreak havoc in QT playback.
Normal procedure would be:
1) Load, trim file segments if needed, and re-save raw files using the "Save as..." option in case of "accidents" later (I usually name the files so they appear in the order I wish to merge them) Don't have to do this but I tend to be "accident" prone
2) Use the "Open Files..." option to navigate to your "safe" files and load them as a group to Streamclip work area
3) Use "Fix timecode breaks" option (Command-F) to remove any possible timecode breaks between/within segments
4) Use "Save As..." option again to save the "merged" data file
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How to combine 3 completed short movies into one disc?

I made 3 projects, created disc images, and burned them successufully, one at a time. Since they are only about 15 minutes each, I would like to now combine them into one DVD. I want to keep the originals as is, meaning the same different DVD theme each one has. Is there a way to do that? I tried to use Toast, but it can't import some files and tells me there is a mac error. Can I create a new DVD theme, sort of introducing the 3 projects, them import the 3 completed projects into it, so that it will play the different iDVD thems for each? Any help would be appreciated.

hey there MaxFS,
you can put all 3 movies into 1 DVD project, but you can't have 3 themes in one project--no version of iDVD works that way. neither does any version of Toast. 1 Project=1 Theme. if you have submenus you can make the submenu page be different from the main menu page.
good luck.

Flash movie missing one pixel in IE

Hello,
I have a Flash movie that is only displaying 799 pixels. The stage is set to 800 pixles and the width in the HTML document is also 800 pixels. This problem is only happening when viewed in Internet Explorer and I don't remember this being a problem until the last Flash plug-in update.
Here's the code:
<center>

<a href="graphflash.cfm"></a>
<a href="eyeflash.cfm"></a>
<a href="illusflash.cfm"></a>
<a href="photoflash.cfm"></a>
<a href="ratesflash.cfm"></a>
<a href="contactflash.cfm"></a>



<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="800" height="600" id="flash" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#b82325" /><embed src="flash.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#b82325" width="800" height="600" name="flash" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</center>
Can any help?
Thanks

I hunted down a similar bug and found a weired reason for it:
I am using a #page DIV for my content, which is centered by horizontal margins set to "auto".
width: 900px;
margin: 0 auto;
This DIV also has a background image that creates shadow effects around the page.
Now this background image tends to shift against the content of the #page DIV by 1 pixel.
Whether the shifting occurs or not depends on the width of the browser window (even or uneven pixel count). It is clearly some kind of rounding bug.
As I have a Flash header positioned in my page, that header exhibits the exact same symptoms as described in this posting - a white line at its right side. It took me quite some time to discover that this happens only at uneven browser window widths.
This effect is not limited to Flash movies. It also happens with inner DIVs that have a different background color.
One more nice IE surprise (tested and found on IE6,7,8,9).

How can I combine three completed projects with text & sound to make one single movie?

How can I combine three completed imovie 09 projects (They all have text & sound) to make one single movie? Thank you for any help you can give.

If they are three separate projects than you will have to export all three as video files. Then you can reimport them into a new event, join them together as if they are ordinary clips, and export that.

How to Combine an .m2v and and an .AC3 into one QT.mov file

A few years ago I converted a .mov file into an .m2v and an .AC3 using Compressor 1.2 (that was for DVD Studio Pro 3.0). I lost the .mov and now need to combine the two files into one QT .mov file. How can I do that please?
I have QT 7.1 3 in OS 10.3.9 and also the QT that came with OS 10.5.8 (I can run either OSs.) (I know that the combined file will be of poorer quality compared to the original .mov). I have Aimersoft Total Media Converter 2.0.4 which can convert video from one form to another, but it can't combine (at least I don't think so).

I lost the .mov and now need to combine the two files into one QT .mov file. How can I do that please?
If you don't have software to do this directly, basically you would have only two other options. The first would be to mux the M2V and AC3 files and then convert the "muxed" file using a compatible converter. The second, would be to convert the audio and video files separately and merge the converted files in a video editor, QT Pro, GarageBand, or a similar application.

How does one detect flash movie (embed object) focus?

If I use javascript to shift focus to the embedded flash
movie object, for example with the following line of code:
document.getElementById("myMovie").focus();
Is there any location within actionscript that I can add an
event listener to detect this shift in focus to the flash movie? I
have tried attaching a "focusIn" event handler to the application
container, to the the stage, and the systemManager, but none of
them appear to work.
Essentially I need to know what object within the application
is receiving focus when I make this javascript call.

Here's a tutorial for adding a referenced movie along with instructions: #18 - Adding Movie/Video File to iWeb Page via Export for Web in Quicktime Player.
OT

Can one play flash movies faster?

I have to go through a couple of self-learning exercises. Alas, the presenter speaks so slow that I have a hard time not to fall asleep between words. :-(
Is there a way (or an alternative player) that allows to playback flash movies (i.e. swf files) at higher than original speeds? I am pretty sure I could easily cope with at least 1.5x if not 2x of the original recording speed and still perfectly understand what is being said and shown.
Such a function would save me tremendous amounts of time and the learning effect would definitely be higher than with the current setup!
Any hint and/or pointer welcome!
Michael

Try http://www.enounce.com for flash files. You can speed up and slow down the playing speed. They have a free 7 day trial and the price is under $30.
You can also adjust the play speed in windows media player for avi files. Select a) "Now Playing", from the top toolbar, b) " Enhancements", c) "Play Speed Settings".
Hope this helps
Cheers
Wal
http://www.directoryofnewzealand.com/blog

How do i make an image pause in a flash movie clip

Please can someone help me. I am trying to find out how to pause or stop an image in a basic flash movie clip, after it has entered from one side and before it exits the other side.
I have been trying to work it out myself for three days but no joy. I am practicing for a test with a training agency which gave me a disk to use but nowhere in it does it say how this is done. I am also having a lot of difficulty making stop start buttons work with this movie clip. I am using a trial cs5.5 version of Flash which expires in 7 days so i need to know this soon. I am up to speed on most of the features, its just this one thing that has me stumped. A lot of the tutorials or examples i have found on the net are very long winded and hard to follow exactly. Could someone let me know, step by step the sequence i should follow after i have created an object and made it go from one side of the stage to the other.

Hi
Thank you for getting back to me. Yes i am using a timeline tween. I have an image on my stage which moves in from one side and out the other side. I am trying to stop or pause the image. The effect i will be asked to reproduce in my exam will be something very much like the banner on the website http://www,iactweb.com. If you go to this website you will see images arrive on the banner and pause before exiting the other side. I am fairly up to speed on all the aspects of getting this effect but i have forgotten what i learned during the course on how stop or pause the images. I am using the trial cs5.5 version of flash . Thanks again for getting back to me.

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