Exporting FLASH

Hi everyone I have Flash 8 pro and am trying to export my video from final cut for the web. I can export as flv file, but can anyone help me understand how to use that for the web? I'm so confused with how to use flash. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Boy, are you in the wrong place. You should really try Adobe not Apple. I think Adobe still has forums for their products. You'll probably find something there. If not, try creativecow.net. I'm certain they have a Flash forum.

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Greg,
Have you found a solution for this problem? I too am experiencing the same problems.
Best,
Terence

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following message -
"the installed version of quicktime does not support this
type of macromedia Flash movie. Quicktime requires Flash 5 or
before?"
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Hello,
I love that Encore can export Flash for Flash Media Server, but why are PlayStream and Level3 the only options available for streaming server? Is there a way I can add Influxis settings to the list? Or, is there a way I can export for Progressive and then convert it or change the URLs for the project to work with Influxis FMS services?
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You can export it to any Flash Media server. You need to change the existing scripts slightly to make it work of Influxis. Pick up Playstream or Level3 script (from ..\Adobe Encore CS4\Required\FlashExportScripts) and save it with a new name with .jsx extn.
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ftpURL
Playstream: var ftpURL = "ftp://ftp.playstream.com"; (Line1)
Level3: var ftpURL = ""; (Line1)
ftpURL = "ftp://" + username + ".ingest.cdn.level3.net"; (Line 61)
returnPath
Playstream: return "rtmp://fvss.playstream.com/fvssod/" +username + "/" + newFileTitle; (line 123)
Level(3): return "rtmp://" +username + "fs.fplive.net/" +username+ "/" + newFileName;
You need to find out your ftp and returnpath for your server and also hardcode it in the script for a single username.
You can also make changes to your AuthoredContent.xml file of Progressive Download to make it work for your streaming.
Just upload your flash video files in Sources folder to a FMS server and change the path of FLV/F4V files in xml file rest everything remaining same.
Example:
Progressive: <Media src='Sources/_PGC_Epgc_entryPoint_Kbp_1.flv' name='Chapter 1' type='video' startTime='0' duration='10.51'/>
Streaming:
For Playstream: <Media src='rtmp://usernamefs.fplive.net/username/_PGC_Epgc_entryPoint_Kbp_1.flv name='Chapter 1' type='video' startTime='0' duration='10.51'/>

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I've tried to export my vector work from Flash to
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became opaque.
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function to
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softwares.
Does somebody know a better way or software to export
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Henri

You may want to follow this thread–no answer so far, but we live in hope…
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2341411#2341411

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Advice on Exporting Flash To Video

Greetings everyone. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I promised a
client that I would be able to export the flash piece I did for
them into a Quicktime Movie. I am using Flash 8, and using many
Flash 8 only features (i.e. blending modes, blur filters). Now, I
know that Flash 8's Quicktime export can't support that stuff, but
I figured I'd export it as a PNG sequence, import the sequence into
Premiere and life would be grand.
HOWEVER, I'm also using Actionscript to create some particle
effects (fairy dust if you must know). And I just realized to my
horror that PNG Sequences, actually NOTHING, exports actionscripted
events. AAAGH!
So I wanted the forums opinions on the following options:
1. Does Flash CS3's export tools take Blending Modes,
Filters, and Actionscripted events into consideration? I'll upgrade
if I have to.
2. Is there a third party tool that can save images from a
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to...
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flashants.com is where you can get the SWF2Video tool which
is also talked about in the artile I
wrote - what do you mean you couldn't see it?
The Quicktime Exporter is designed to export dynamic content
- so yes, in theory it will do what you
want - but beware - it is not perfect - in fact, if you have
a high frame rate (who doesn't) and a
lot of animation - forget about it. Here's my standard
copy/paste response to this feature:
Turn off audio. The audio in a Flash movie may also slow the
performance
possibly causing dropped frames. Turn off the audio, if you
have many
dropped frames in the first attempt. Other video editing
tools can be used
to add the audio to the video after export.
Reduce frame rate. If the movie dimension is a full size
NTSC video, 740 x
480, and frame rate is 30 fps, you are more likely to have
dropped frames.
Reduce the fps of Flash movie increase the chance of
grabbing all the
frames. Other video editing tools can be used to adjust the
frame rate of
the video after export.
Optimize your animation. Try to avoid a lot of screen
motion. The greater
the area of change on the screen, the more likely slowdown
will occur. Also,
if possible, restrict your use of transparency and alpha
channels as they
too can cause poor performance.
Use ActionScript 3. Animation created by ActionScript 2 and
ActionScript 3
are different in play back performance. Convert the
ActionScript in your
animation to ActionScript 3 for optimized performance.
Dimension settings in 2 places. The dimension settings in
Export Settings
dialog sets the dimension of the SWF movie to be captured.
The Size settings
in QuickTime Settings dialog sets the dimension of the
exported MOV files.
If the SWF size is smaller than the exported MOV size, the
picture quality
will be degraded; if it is larger than the exported MOV
file, you may have
better picture quality. For best quality (and often
performance) these
settings should match.
Most likely - you will experience dropped frames at best.
This feature is not perfect. SWF3Video
does an amazing job of converting SWF movies to AVI - it has
saved my *ss on many many many projects.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
Crowandazi wrote:
> Read the Flash To Video article, but didn't see the
SWF2Video section. Will
> take a look. Gracias! Just as an FYI for my decision to
upgrade, however, do
> you know about those features showing up in CS3's
export?
>
> Thanks!
>

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I have tried many combinations of Flash, Freehand, and
Illustrator with no success. (Freehand will open SWF files, but it
rasterizes the vector art when exporting as either EPS or PDF).
Working in Flash Pro 8, but from the Flash CS3 documentation
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masking, and transparency?

Has anyone found a good solution for this? I need to export character art from Flash to use for print and consumer product items. Qualtity vectors are required.
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(I'm using Flash CS4.)
Dear Adobe, this should be a no-brainer ... Please introduce a true vector export feature from Flash to Illustrator that generates art we can actually use.

Disable Context Menu - Flash Professional Export (Flash 11.2 - CS6)

Flash 11.2 added the capability to attach an right-click mouse-event to MovieClips.
EX:
var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip
mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.RIGHT_MOUSE_DOWN, myFunction);
When this listener is attached, it should be impossible for the Context Menu to pop up on right-click of this object. Flash disables the functionality.
When I export a new SWF from Flash Professional (CS6 Mac) and that SWF is embedded in the browser, it works as expected. Right-click does not spawn a context menu.
However, this is not the case with the flash player within Flash Professional. The flash player presented within Flash Professional just after export will does not hide the context menu.
While it's possible for me to develop by simply exporting the SWF and testing it in-browser, I lose out on all the debugging that Flash Professional offers.
How do I fix this issue?
NOTE:
This issue isn't with exporting to 11.2 - I can already do that. All changes mentioned in this tutorial have already been made with base install of Flash Professional CS6.
running:
trace(flash.system.Capabilities.version)
results in:
MAC 11,2,202,228

I've got the same problem!
I'm currently using Adobe Flash CS6 and I don't gave an idea of how to deploy my apps to be published on the Mac App Store!
If you find the answer, please, let me know!
Here's my email: [email protected]
Thanks a lot!

How to make exported Flash files as small as possible?

I am producing some Web Presenter videos, and they are going to be embedded onto a website.
This is my current workflow:
.Import video and then Key it in Adobe Ultra
.Import keyed footage into After Effects to allow me to set pixel dimensions for composition
.Render as flash file
Currently, I am rendering them as .Flv (web small) in the settings, but the files are coming out at 8-12mb, and the video is only 60 seconds long. I have seen some guys get flash videos of this length down to 3mb.
My question, am I rendering under the most sensible settings, or is there something better I should be doing? I need to keep the files small, but without losing much quality.
Here is an example of a recent Web Presenter I did: http://www.ukpostbox.com
I did the filming and presentation, and a friend (who has since died) did the editing. It will give you an example of the effect I'm looking for. Also, is the 'start' button something I can add myself, or is that normally done by the web designers at the clients end?
You might need to explain everything in simple terms to me as I am very new to After Effects, and this type of editing system.
Thanks,
James.

You may also have to edit the export settings.
When you export to flv with the preconfiguration "web small" you shall dig in it and adjust the data rate (lower it until you get the quality you want).
Sadly, encoding isn't a skill that have a long curve of learning, and relying on pressets is just the first step (and encoding much depends on what is in the frame, so it's a science by itself as soon as you want more control on your outputs). Also, AE is a compositing system, not an encoding software, so if you have the Production Premium, Master Coolection or Premiere, you should definitly want to export your project from the Adobe Media Encoder.
One of the most important step in downsizing the size of your video while keeping quality is to do "dual pass" encoding, and AE can't do that.
The great thing is that you can import an AE composition right inside AME, so you don't need to do a temp encoding.

Exporting Flash to Director WITH video

In Flash, I have created a digital camera, that, when a
button is pressed, the screen changes from showing pictures to
showing a video. This works all fine and well in Flash, however, it
has to work in Director. Now I imported it into Director, obviously
using version:Flash 6, but because of it being version 6, the video
didnt work, so i tried version 7, where the sound of the video
works, but no picture. version 8 isn't supported by the director im
using (MX 2004).
Does anyone know of a way that I can get around this?
Its so frustrating as it works fine in Flash!

On the Mac - exporting to "Quicktime Video" produces a true
video file (fixed frame rate). It is not
an SWF on a track in the quicktime player - Windows users
only yhave the option to export a flash
track to QT.
On the Mac, exporting to just quicktime produces a flash
movie in QT.
The easiest way to tell is to look at the file size of the
SWF and then exported MOV - the MOV will
be MUCH larger - probably hundreds of MBs while the SWF may
only be 100k (give or take).
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RayOrr wrote:
> Susan,
>
> You did not state if you are experiencing any problems
creating the MOV, or
> what version of Flash authoring application you are
using. But, in Flash 8 the
> instructions state that only Flash Player 4 and its
features are supported by
> QT 5.
>
> Unfortunately, QT 5 is still the last version that
supports Flash player files
> by default and then it only supports Flash Player 4!
Later versions of QT can
> be configured to play Flash content, but it still only
supports Flash 4
> content. You can go to Edit/Preferences/Quick Time
Preferences/Advanced Tab
> and check the Media Types box.
>
> It is my understanding that the MOV file created
includes embedded Flash
> content (tracks) and relies upon QT to be able to play
the embedded Flash
> tracks. Therefore, all interactivity is retained
(buttons, .,inks etc). I
> don't think the flash content is repurposed and
converted into Quick Time
> format. Hence, until QT is updated to support later
versions of Flash content
> you cannot directly convert from Flash 6 or 7 stuff into
QT.
>
> I have been able to convert Flash into AVI, and then
into QT, but you loose
> the interative stuff and also lose some video quality.
>

Trouble exporting Flash from FCP, and, no MPEG-2 option?

Hello. I'm trying to export a short 5 minute video from FCP. There doesn't seem to be an option for MPEG 2 anymore. Am I missing it?
Second, when I export with the Flash (FLV) setting FCP "stops responding" every time. Any idea what's up with that and what I can do to resolve it?
Thank you!
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I was hoping to export MPEG2 directly from FCP, but I used Compressor as you suggested. Now, here's a really silly question: After I "submit" the file, it processed (I can see it processing in the Batch Monitor), but I can't find the file anywhere on my computer!
I thought I changed the destination to my desktop, but even searching the computer for the file name it doesn't come up. Am I overlooking something obvious??
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Exporting Flash movie

I'm very new to flash, and I'm trying to export a simple
little 30 second video clip so my web designer can put it on our
website. I imported the .flv movie into a new project. tested it
and it worked fine. The movie is stored on my video drive.
I exported the movie from the project, to a portable drive to
deliver to my designer believing that it would be a self contained
piece of flash, but the Flash movie won't play unless my video
drive is hooked up to my computer. I then decided to build the
entire project in my small portable drive and store the original
movie on that drive and it worked, but there must be a more elegant
way to do this.
any suggestions would be helpful.
thx...jw

you should play your flv file using a swf created by a fla,
not import it into a the flash authoring environment.

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