Convert to swf for Captivate

Can someone please help me? I have a series of 8 second video clips (.mts) which I need to use as seperate clips in Captivate 4. But I can't seem to find a way of converting the clips to the .swfs needed in Captivate.
I bought both Adobe eLearning Suite and Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium. Besides searching the forums I tried converting with Adobe Media Encorder but that will only convert to .flv or .f4v which Captivate 4 won't import.
As you may deduce I need batch converting. Each end result will contain about 30 of these short clips.
Please tell me I missed some obvious Adobe way of doing this !!
Thanks
Andre

Hi Andre,
FLV is the way to go. You need to convert your clips to FLV using the Adobe Media Encoder and then insert them in Captivate as "Flash Video".
You need to place each video on a separate slide as a Flash Video. You can't just import them directly into Captivate so maybe that's where you went wrong.
The shortcut key for inserting Flash Video on a slide is CTRL + SHIFT + F.
/Michael
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> Is there any way to convert or decompile a captive swf
back to a captivate
> project file?
>
> I know SWFs can be decompiled to FLAs, is there any
other way around this?
>
> Short story is... I have a corrupt file and want to save
as much work as
> possible (it was a long presentation).
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