Encode movie clips for use in PDF presentation?

I've tried several formats for use in PDF.
FLV, F4V and H.264. But i always experience massive lag in Full Screen Mode. Even when I encode with low rate settings.
Any best practises?

Those are the only formats supported in Rich Media Annotations. Within the Acrobat Family they render using Flash Player, so the performance should be similar to a full-screen display of the same video from another source (e.g. on a website).
What do you mean by 'massive lag'? Are the audio and video tracks out of sync, is the playback slow or buffering? You must expect an initial delay when the RMA activates, as the video file must be decompressed from the PDF file's data stream and transferred to memory for Flash Player to open. That can take anything up to three seconds depending on the hardware and size of the stream.

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When I try to download now, save and replay it, I can’t view it unless I go back to AOL, which will no be available at my presentation sight.
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I have a Flash site that loads specific SWFs into a movie
clip called "content_mc" based on a button click. I do this using
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"loadClip." All seemed to be working fine, but now I see that
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better way to do what I want to do... but such is life. What is the
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or is there a better way to do what I want to do?
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David

Nope you understand more or less correctly. unloadClip takes
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things that don't go away.
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1.8 GHz Power PC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 256 MB DDR SDRAM

welcome Novice to the  board ....
hmm, multidimensional question ...
DVD is end-of-the-road, not meant for further processing; there are tools, allowing to import DVD to iM, but that is a time-consuming and lossy (=losing pic quality) process, due to the deliver-format nature of DVDs.... search forum for "DVD import"
iM is by concept not meant to handle a clip in many projects (that can easily been accomplished with pro tools as FC(E), which offer "bins" for imports, offering the content to many sequences/projects).
there are workarounds, dragging clips from the internal files of an iM project to another... but, as said: you "fumble" the concept: import tape, edit, burn - done.
a video contains ~13GB of data per hour... and, video is allready highly compressed, no zipper can reduce that dramatically... and, you risk damage of files... yepp, a cd-r fits ~700MB = 3.5min of video......
recommended workflow:
* don't store iM projects on -r media (cd/dvd), but firewire connected harddrives..
* keep the tapes; import clips from tape into project; you can export single clips out of iM/import into another project, I wouldn't do that with "lots" of clips, importing the tape is... more convenient..

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I'm new to actionscript.
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they all twinkle at the same time, and this looks pretty stupid.
My limited knowledge and experience with Actionscript tells
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I have some books on actionscript I'm yet to work through, as
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haven't had the time nor energy to wrap my brain around it yet.
Thanks for any help!

Well, I've now decided to only have a few stars twinkling, so
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Kodak Digital Camera QuickTime MOV Problems
After battling a number of serious problems with the videos taken by my new Kodak Digital Camera, I decided to write up this page so that anyone searching the web would find out the true answers without as much grief!
I’ve also made some other comments about my experience with the camera, in case anyone was considering buying a Kodak camera in the near future.
I bought the camera just before Christmas 2004 in the US. At the time of writing, it is a pretty good model for domestic use—about 5.2 megapixels, costing about US$400 (or AU$600 back here in Australia). From a company as reputable as Kodak, I expected no problems.
The first disappointing thing was that the spring inside the spring-loaded battery clip, inside the camera, came loose within days. It proved impossible to reattach it without completely dismantling the camera, which (despite my engineering qualifications) I was not willing to do. This would usually have been a warranty item, but Kodak’s warranty does not extend to other countries. I’ve since had to jam cardboard in to keep the battery clip engaged, and have taped the battery bay shut to avoid it opening accidentally when taking the camera out of the case. This works fine with the docking station (an extra AU$100!), but it means I can no longer charge the battery without the docking station (since you need to take it out to charge it). I was not impressed!
The camera takes good photos, and I have no complaint with that. The controls and camera menus are well-designed. The large display is excellent.
The EasyShare software is not as easy to use as it looks, has a habit of crashing, has a web update program that is always running in the background of Windows, and transferring images is nowhere as easy or quick as it should be. I’ve now uninstalled it completely, and simply copy the photos directly from the device. (If the camera memory is nearly full, and you just want to transfer the last few photos, then it’s impossible to use the EasyShare software to browse the camera’s photos without it actually downloading the whole lot through the USB cable—and it takes forever! Copying from the device directly doesn’t hit this bug.)
The capability to take video using the camera was a great attraction when I selected it, and, if it worked properly, it would make it quite a handy little camcorder in its own right. With a 512 MB memory card in it, over an hour of video can be recorded at Video-CD quality (320 x 240 24fps video, 8 kHz audio). It’s not full digital video, but it would still be a pretty good feature for a US$400 camera. If it worked.
The first disappointing thing about taking videos is that the optical zoom cannot be adjusted while the camera is recording. It can only be adjusted between video sequences. I don’t know why this restriction was made in the design.
The real problems, however, start when you try to do anything with the video clips captured by the camera. Kodak has chosen to capture the videos in QuickTime format. This is fine—QuickTime is, technically, excellent—except that there is no simple way to convert QuickTime MOV files to AVI or MPEG or VCD. The Kodak software comes with a QuickTime player, so you can see the video clips on the computer you installed the software on—and they look good. Problem is that you can’t just dump those MOV files onto your Video-CD creator (it will usually want AVI or MPEG files).
It takes some time to realise that Kodak have not even bothered to include any software with the camera that can convert these MOV files to a more useful format. This is a serious PR blunder, and anyone bitten by this is unlikely to go near the Kodak brand ever again.
After some web searching, owners of these cameras generally find that the best (only?) freeware solution to convert MOV to AVI is Bink and Smacker’s RADtools program.
RADtools is amazingly powerful for the price (i.e. free), but it hits two fundamental problems with Kodak Digital Camera MOV video files, that are the fault of the Kodak camera, not RADtools. (I know this because every other MOV converter hits the same problems—except one, as you will see below.)
The first problem is that the sound cannot be converted properly. When you convert any Kodak MOV files, there is an “aliasing” of the sound at the upper frequencies. This is a technical description—you get a whispery, tinny, C3PO type of echo to everything. It really destroys the quality of the video clips (especially bad when I am trying to capture priceless memories of my 4- and 7-year-old sons—I don’t want their voices destroyed for all time).
Every conversion program I tried ended up with the same audio problem. I concluded that it is something strange in the way the Kodak cameras store the MOV files.
Strangely enough, I noticed that the QuickTime player didn’t distort the audio like this. The audio sounds just fine through QuickTime. More on this shortly.
The second, more serious problem is that RADtools could not properly convert some of the video clips at all. (This problem only affected less than 10% of the clips I originally filmed, but most of those clips were very short—less than 20 seconds. It seems that the probability of this problem gets worse, the longer the clip.) RADtools would misreport the number of frames in the clip, and would stretch out a small number of frames of video (in slow motion) to match the length of the audio.
Again, I confirmed that this is a property of some of the MOV files stored by the camera. Other conversion tools also had problems with the same MOV clips.
After more angst, I found a number of websites in which frustrated owners of these Kodak cameras have reported the exact same problems.
It was only then that I discovered that QuickTime itself can convert MOV files to AVI. Believe it or not, it’s built into the QuickTime Player that Kodak supplies, or that you can download free from apple.com. The problem is that you can’t use it unless you pay Apple to upgrade to QuickTime Pro.
After realising that this would probably be the only way to get decent audio for these clips, I paid the AU$59 to Apple Australia to get the licence key that enables the extra “Pro” menu options in QuickTime.
Sure enough, you can “Export” any MOV file to a number of formats, including AVI. And guess what? The audio comes out fine!
So, the first piece of advice I can give is: pay Apple the US$29 (or whatever amount it is in your country) to upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro.
From here, however, there are still a few snags to untangle.
The first is that the default settings for Exporting to AVI don’t give a great result. It defaults to the Cinepak codec, medium quality. This looks terrible compared to the original QuickTime movie. Even on maximum quality, that codec just doesn’t give good results.
I finally found that the best option is to use the Intel Indeo Video 4.4 codec, set on maximum quality. This creates AVI files that are 10 to 20 times larger than the original MOV files, but the quality is there. If (like me) you only want the AVI files so you can dump them into your Video-CD program, then you want to keep the quality as high as possible in this first step. The extra hard disk space is not really a concern. When your VCD program converts the AVI files to MPEG, it will compress them to the usual VCD size.
Now for the biggest snag: those problem MOV files are still a problem, even for QuickTime Pro. Unbelievably, these Kodak cameras are spitting out MOV files which have some sort of technical flaw in their data specifications. QuickTime is able to play them back fine—and that seems to be all that the Kodak engineers really checked. However, if QuickTime Pro tries to export them, then when the progress bar gets to the end, it never finishes. It just keeps going. If you check the output folder with Explorer, and keep hitting F5 to update the file listing, you can see the file getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger. It never stops.
That this happens even for QuickTime itself (the native format for these files) confirms that the problem is with the software built into these Kodak cameras. It would be nice it they issued a patch or a fix. I couldn’t find one.
Fortunately, there is a “workaround” for this problem. I found it when trolling the net trying to find solutions to all these problems. The workaround is to use QuickTime Pro’s cut and paste facility. Open the problem MOV file, then press Ctrl-A (the standard key combination for “select all”—in this case it selects the entire film clip, as you can see by the grey selection of frames at the bottom of the player). Then hit Ctrl-C (i.e. copy, which in this case copies all the frames, but not the incorrect data structure in the original MOV file). Now hit Ctrl-N (i.e. new, in this case a new MOV file or player). In this new player, press Ctrl-V (i.e. paste). Now you have a new version of the MOV file with the bad data structure exorcised. You can save this under a new name, but make sure you specify “Make movie self-contained”—otherwise, it will simply be a link to the original (bad) MOV file, which you are probably going to delete once you save the exorcised version. (You also cannot overwrite the original file, because it needs to access that to make the “self-contained” movie. You need to give it a slightly different name, save it “self-contained”, then delete the original and rename the new copy back to what you wanted it to be. A pain, I agree, but at least the **** thing works—finally!)
The exorcised MOV file can now be used to Export to AVI format. (I also keep all the MOV files on a separate CD, in case I want to reconvert them to a different format in the future. I figure it’s better keeping the exorcised ones than the haunted ones.)
So I hope that all this answers a few of your questions. No, you weren’t being incredibly stupid.

Referencing a movie clip by using a variable

I have been using this line of code to fade in a movie clip:
new Tween(background_mc, "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, .5, true);
Now, I want to accomplish the same thing, only this time by using an element from an array (bg_array[currentSlideNumber]) that stores the instance name "background_mc"
I've tried the following, but it doesn't work:
new Tween(bg_array[currentSlideNumber], "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, .5, true);
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

You are telling flash to look inside that array and tween the _alpha property of the string -- because instance names are strings -- "background_mc" from 0 to 100. But generally speaking a string doesn't have an _alpha property.
What you really want to do is tell flash, look inside this array find the string then use that string to look inside another array -- the array of all objects on some timeline -- to find a clip and then tween its _alpha property. That sounds like a lot, but it only adds a little bit to your code.
new Tween(this[bg_array[currentSlideNumber]], "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, .5, true);
I'm assuming the code is on the same timeline as background_mc?
Annother approach would be to store instance references instead of the names. I'm not sure how you are creating the background, but instead of putting the name into the array, put a reference. So if you were using attachMovie you could do something like this.
var bg_array:Array=new Array()
var tempVar:MovieClip=this.attachMovie("background","background_mc",100);
bg_array.push(tempVar);
Finally, and not to anything you've asked about, but don't you find the suffixes annoying? Why, bg_array and background_mc? If you type your variables you will still get code completion and you will have less to type and your code won't be so long. I just find that having to type those underscores and all makes me likely to make mistakes and makes it much harder to read the code. Just a thought.

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Im trying to create a series of images that scroll acoss the page left and right using arrows at either side of the stage. The arrows use mouse over events to play a movie clip of the images foward and backward.
There are a few issues I am having. I have a mouse over and mouse out events in place to start and stop the clip on to different buttons. However when playing the clip backward with my current script the mouse out doesnt do anything so the clip just keeps playing backward to the beggining. Once this has happened neither button then does anything.
Another issue is once the clip has played foward once in total and I mouse over the same arrow button again it flicks back to the begginging of the clip.
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panel.stop();
leftarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, fl_MouseOverHandler_7);
leftarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, fl_MouseOutHandler_4);
function fl_MouseOverHandler_7(event:MouseEvent):void
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function fl_MouseOutHandler_4(event:MouseEvent):void
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rightarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, fl_MouseOverHandler_9);
rightarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, fl_MouseOutHandler_7);
function fl_MouseOverHandler_9(event:MouseEvent):void
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function everyFrame(event:Event):void
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function fl_MouseOutHandler_7(event:MouseEvent):void
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Patrick

use:
panel.stop();
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leftarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, fl_MouseOutHandler_4);
function fl_MouseOverHandler_7(event:MouseEvent):void
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function fl_MouseOutHandler_4(event:MouseEvent):void
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rightarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, fl_MouseOverHandler_9);
rightarrow_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, fl_MouseOutHandler_7);
function fl_MouseOverHandler_9(event:MouseEvent):void
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function everyFrame(event:Event):void
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this might be a pipe dream, but i would like to create an ad
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I have PPro CS3 on Windows XP (the OS is more relevent to the question than the software version, I think). I have been buying some inexpensive stock footage, and the HD/SD libraries they have been offering lately come as MOV files with apple-flavored codecs, if you know what I mean. Fortunately PPro has been able to open everything I have tried so far, but of course they have to be rendered. And results in player software (for previewing clips) varies by frame size and whether the clip has audio (most don't, but a few do), and not being able to see thumbnails in Windows hampers my speed in selecting clips, especially since the files came named "1.mov", "2.mov", etc. (yeah, I'll eventually rename them to something useful). So I would like to just convert them all to AVIs with the Microsoft DV codec, so that they will play natively in PPro without rendering. I know I could use PPro to do the conversion (put them all on a timeline and do Export Movie one at a time), but I was hoping for a batch solution. I've downloaded and installed a number of free converter programs, but nothing seems to be able to output in the Microsoft DV codec.
Some of the files are HD (1920x1080), some are SD 16:9 that were reduced from those HD clips, and some are original SD 4:3. The codec for the HD ones is reported by GSpot to be "Apple Photo JPEG", and the SD ones use something simply called "dvc" or "DV". Noting the similarity of the name "DV", I did try just telling the conversion program to leave the video stream alone and just change the wrapper from MOV to AVI. WMP and Windows' thumbnail generator seem to understand the resulting file, but PPro shows colored noise - so much for that idea.
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For my conversions, I use DigitalMedia Converter 2.7, and it does batch conversion very well. Now for the caveat (you knew one was coming, right?), Deskshare has introduced "new and improved" software, but I have not tried it yet. I do not know how it will handle your footage, so the trial might be in order.
Good luck,
Hunt

How to convert iDVD theme to .mov file. for use in FCP?

I would like to use the Baby Mobile iDVD theme as a clip in a movie to be created on FCP. I dropped my pics in the iDVD project with the Baby Mobile theme and put in a green background so I could later key out the background and replace it with a different background. I deleted the title and added a short movie to the menu. Because I don't want to use the theme as a DVD menu, I made the menu button the same color as the green background.
I then burned the DVD. Next I ripped the DVD using MactheRipper to give me the Video TS folder. I then used Handbrake to convert the VOB files to Mpeg4. Unfortunately, Handbrake only converted the 10 second movie I put in iDVD and not the Baby Mobile iDVD theme.
Any ideas out there to help me use the iDVD menu theme as a standalone clip in a movie?
I did find the source material of the theme in the Mobile.pox folder; it contains the 2 .mov files with alpha channels but I would rather not go through the time consuming process of keying in the movements and size of my pics to match the Mobile. It would take too much time and I don't know how successful it would be.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

Options:
-If you have FCS2, you can use Motion to track the points, thus saving you lots of keyframing time in FCP.
-You can use MPEG Streamclip to rip the DVD (I believe it can find the menu files)
-You can get a screen capture program such as Snapz X Pro to screen capture it.
-As it encodes the media in iDVD's burning process, you can find where it stores the temporary copy of the MPEG2 that it creates, and snag that file before it finishes the burn and deletes it.
NOTE: I've never tried option 4, nor do I know if it will work. I just came up with it.

Compressing clips for use with iweb?

I have got a video clip I want to use with iweb to upload onto my site, however it's 14mb. There was a tip that flashed up to say if I export using quicktime it will make the file smaller.
However I did this and now it's 37mb!
How can I compress it for iweb without losing too much content?

Does a bigger file not take longer for the person viewing to be able to watch it, or is it a case then that once it's uploaded, they can view it instantly? If it's the latter then that's not a problem.
As they say, "time is relative to motion." In this case case, that faster the ISP connection, the faster a "Fast Start" movie will begin to play. By this I mean that a "Fast Start" movie must cache enough data so that is is not likely to overrun the data as it is being downloaded. A larger file will, of course, have to "cache" more data before beginning to play. But how noticeable this time difference is, in turn, related to both the size of the file and the speed of the connection. If your connection is on the order of 1.6 Mbps then the delay for a 1500-1600 Kbps movie no matter what its total duration, should not be that long. On the other hand, if you or your target users are using a 1.1 Mbps connection, then there will some delay which would be directly proportional to the total size of the movie (i.e., the total duration x the average data rate per unit of time) In this case you would likely prefer a smaller sized file. And, of course, one way to make the file smaller is to decrease its display dimensions (i.e., maintain constant quality over a smaller viewing area) and another would be to decrease the data rate (i.e., reduce quality of the same viewing area). For some, the question is more one of minimal acceptable quality. Once again, the iMovie '08 H.264/AAC pre-sets are generally a good compromise between data rate (quality) and files size (cache download time).

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