Editing down an FLV?

Question

I recorded a screencast with Acrobat Connect and wanted to do some simple edits with it in Premiere Pro. I'm having trouble figuring out how to get reasonable output size.
My original single clip is a 1920x1088 FLV, allegedly at 7.88fps. It is 17 megabytes.
I placed it into a 1440x1088 sequence (because I wanted to crop the right edge off).
I made a handful of cuts with the razor tool, deleted some sections, ripple deleted the empty space.
I also sped up one clip 143%.
(I experimented with trying to record a voiceover track, but Premiere crashed 2 or 3 times and I couldn't get the the "Enable Track for Recording" button in the Audio Mixer to work, so I gave up on that).
When I export my sequence to FLV, with On2 VP6 frame rate "same as source" bitrate VBR/One Pass/Low, I get a 59mb file.
But my original was 17mb.
What am I doing wrong?
Selecting 8fps pops up a red stopsign, "Adobe Media Encoder: Property Data Invalid!"
What am I doing wrong?
If i lock the output framerate to 8fps, I get a 44mb file.

Answer 1

Well of and by itself, video is NOT interactive. There is no way to make the video file be interactive. You can however embed cue point signals into the video and listen for those events (cue points) or just listen for when the video is complete.
But the fact that you listen and detect those events, still doesn't actually do anything, you still need some actionscript that says "when the event is detected, do this....".
So you'll need to do some editing of the .fla that includes the video player (which gets published as the .swf file).
If you don't have the .fla file, I don't see how you can make it work.
But since there are a lot of ways to create flv video players, why not just create a new .fla and then code in what you need?
Or perhaps try using a 3rd party video player that allows for cue points, can detect and act on the cues.
http://flowplayer.org/documentation/events/cuepoints.html
On the other hand, if you were using Flash NetStream method to play the video, it's simple to redirect at the end of the video... but you still need to edit the .fla file.
ns.onStatus = function(info) {
  if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
  trace("Video complete")
    ns.seek(60);
//  ns.play();
  ns.pause();
//  gotoAndStop("end");
  getURL("http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/video.html", "_blank");
Reading thru the code:
When player detects that the video has ended:
trace the message "Video complete"
then reset the playhead to 60 sec into video and (play or) pause the video.
could jump to (gotoAndStop at) another part of the main timeline (but that is commented out for now)... instead
getURL... go the the web page shown and open in a new window.
What you are asking will take a little actionscript is all, but you need the .fla.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator