Flash video project

hi all,
sorry if this has been asked before, but i can't find much
out there - probably because i've never developed with flash
before, so not 100% sure what terms to look for.
basically, i want to put together a basic video listings page
of home movies (they're transcoded using ffmpeg into h264 format).
i've come to doing the flash player for this, and can't seem to
find info on setting things up how i imagined they'd work.
most/all tutorials for flash video involve encoding the video
into .flv with the player embedded in it, which isn't how i thought
it would work. i had planned/hoped to have a single flash video
front end for video playbay (using the flv fullscreen control),
which could be told to playback from the h264 file on the server,
or optionally to play through an xml list of h264 files.
is it possible to do this, without encoding to flv?
thanks for reading

you can use the same procedure for h264 files as for the
flv..
Nothing has changed besides the capability of flash handling
those filetypes.
Don't forget to update your flash version to 9.0.2 and make
sure you have the NEWEST flash player installed

Similar Messages

How do I move a video project from Encore to AIR via Flash Builder?

I've got a rather complex video project with lots of submenus (that works as a DVD - so it is "debugged") that I need to be able to export from Encore into an app to upload on the iTunes store and Android Market. So far, I've managed to export the project via Encore's Flash output and test the results using a web browser (it works). Everything got saved in a new folder structure with an index.html file pointing to the flashdvd.swf file pointing to the AuthoredContent.xml file that actually holds all the information on the file structure (there are 99 files in the Sources subfolder) and uses the default generated Theme.xml file.
What I need to do is to somehow import all this into Flash Builder as a project so it can become the source for the various "app" platforms. My questions are:
1. I've got Flash Builder 4.5 - do I need to upgrade to 4.7 in order to import the project or can this be done in 4.5?
2. Is there some intermediate step that I'm missing?
3. Will Flash Builder be able to repackage all these files into the file specs required by each target platform (I'm assuming it will - is that a valid assumption)?
And moving downstream a bit...
4. Since this is a video based project with over 200 megabytes of F4V content, how will the content arrive on the end user device? Will it have to be streamed or can it be downloaded? - this is a big issue should the app become popular and we be forced to maintain a streaming server somewhere. What about server sizing in such an event? For example: is there a way to estimate how much bandwidth is required per 1,000 instances?

Oh, no i think i clicked Solved but it's not at all solved and i don'tt see a way to reverse it and clicked unsolved.
I'v tried reading the Manuals but still don't see the solution.
I think I've misworded my question. Perhaps i shall have to start a new question.
What i want to know is very basic.
How do i take a video i see on either youTube or another side and put it either on my iPod (i guess via iTunes) or put it into a document or an email??
Do i copy some link? Copy what exactly? Do i click and drag something?
I think if i knew how to get a video to iTunes I could be able to sync it.
But i don't know the first thing, how to get a video onto iTunes, or email, or a document.
Thank you both.

Unable to publish projects with inserted video - error message The Flash video can not be loaded

I've created a project in Captivate 6 with two slides that have inserted videos in them
Both the videos were created in Captivate 6 by publishing those projects as mp4 videos
They play fine in the previews but when publishing I get the error saying the Flash video can not be loaded for both of those slides and in the output files the area for the video is blank.
I have checked that the videos are not open anywhere else as I saw on a previous post this was the issue but the only place they are in use is in the project I am trying to publish.
Below are my settings and the error message
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Your screenshot indicates you are publishing to a folder on a network drive.
Have you:
Verified whether or not the video file exists at the published folder location? (It should ideally be sitting in the same folder as the SWF that calls it.)
Verified that the folder location is set up as a trusted location in your Flash Global Security settings?

Exporting 16:9 Project to 4:3 Adobe Flash Video

Hello,
I have a 16:9 Video Project.
I'd like to export some of my sequences via the Adobe Media Encoder to Adobe Flash Video - 4:3 format.
I've tried using a Widescreen Flash Preset and then cropping the footage - however the footage must be getting distorted because the video gets a lot of lines in it when there's even a minimum amount of motion - with bitrate set to 500.
Any suggestions on how to export 16:9 project o 4:3 flash video without distorting the video? What if I want to export to 240 x 180 as opposed to 320 x 240? I'm not sure how the math really works for 16:9 to 4:3 to square pixel conversions.

Well, Chaunce, there you have it: Two differing viewpoints. Most of the output I do is for 4:3 square-pixel reduced size computer playback. Suffice it to say I have not been entirely satisfied with Premiere's handling of such a seemingly simple task.
Deinterlacing is an inherently lossy process. Even the best deinterlacers can't do it perfectly. So, I certainly cannot say that this is "lossless". Granted, scaling to such a small size as 240x180 will likely hide some of the adverse effects of poor deinterlacing.
I am also not particularly pleased with the way Premiere scales video. Large ratio scaling (like 720x480 -> 240x180) looks way too soft for my taste. Sadly Adobe does not implement better scaling algorithims (such as Lanczos) for resizing. It can really help preserve detail when downscaling video and images.
Premiere (and all the Adobe products) use approximated pixel aspect ratios. You may find that these produce slight stretching or squeezing of your footage when converted. It may not be problematic, but it is not "correct", strictly speaking.
For these reasons, I use Premiere strictly for editing and I have found alternative tools for preparing content for PC playback. I am hoping that Adobe will continue to make improvements in these areas.
-- Dan

Flash Video Not Playing in Captivate Project

I've put in a flv video at the beginning of a Captivate Project. When I press F4 from within the project, it works fine - flash video slide works, transitions into Captivate build, etc. However, when I publish the file as a Flash Project and then try and open the HTML link from within the published folder, I am told that there is a Connection Error. The project proceeds, progresses until the Captivate portion of the project comes up and works fine from there.
Any ideas or suggestions?

Have you copied the FLV file into the same folder as the published SWF? Captivate doesn't do this automatically for you.

Flash Video Cue Points don't work

I used the template sample from Adobe named :Flash video
template: Showcase website for personal video...I followed all the
steps sugested. I used Flash Video Encoder, created the cue points,
worte down the location of those cue points, which I wrote exactly
in the Settings.XML file for each chapter....etc. I guarantee you
that I did it all as sugested...In fact several months ago, it
worked for another project and another videos that I had.
But this time, when I am testing it, the video appears in the
screen all right but when I select a chapter for the section of
that video, an error appears like this :
VideoError: 1003: Invalid seek
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/seek()
at fl.video::FLVPlayback/seek()
at
Video_fla::MainTimeline/chapterClickHandler()[Video_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:184]
VideoError: 1003: Invalid seek
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/seek()
at fl.video::FLVPlayback/seek()
at
Video_fla::MainTimeline/chapterClickHandler()[Video_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:184]
My Settings file has the correspondent locations for each cue
point, like this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<showcase>

<section>
<title>Safety Fair 2008</title>
<video>video/MOPS_safetyFair.flv</video>
<cuepoints>
<cuepoint>
<title>Fire Department 1</title>
<time>00:00:13.291</time>
<image>img/Gath1.png</image>
<caption>What to do in case of a fire at
home...</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Fire Department 2</title>
<time>00:01:39.686</time>
<image>img/Poison Center.png</image>
<caption>How to escape from a fire at
home</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Crime Stoppers</title>
<time>00:01:51.869</time>
<image>img/TxDepTra.png</image>
<caption>Buckle up...</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Texas Dep of Transportation</title>
<time>00:01:51.869</time>
<image>img/Poison Center.png</image>
<caption>Assistance by phone in case of
emergency...</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Poison Center</title>
<time>00:02:02.946</time>
<image>img/Gathering3.png</image>
<caption>Mops Gathering at the FLC Picnic
area</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Fellowship</title>
<time>00:02:09.591</time>
<image>img/Kids-with-Jenny.png</image>
<caption>Nice visit and gathering w/our
children</caption>
</cuepoint>
</cuepoints>
</section>
I have my file structure right as well in each folder IMG and
VIDEO.
What does this error means and how can I correct the
problem.....I have been expending hours trying different ways and
still can't get it to work.
Thanks,
Edna

you don't need a cuepoint to detect the end of your video. use:
var lo:Object = {};
lo.complete = function(eObj:Object):Void {
next_btn._visible=true;
flv_pb.addEventListener("complete", lo); // <- use the instance name of your flvpb component

How do I keep browser from re-sizing (zooming) flash video?

Hi,
Some browsers (Opera, Explorer, Firefox 3) can zoom entire
pages, including text, images, and video. My flash videos have text
that degrades (pixelates) badly under these circumstances. How can
I embed a flash video in DW CS3 to keep the video dimensions from
expanding?
Thanks in advance!
Here's my embed code:

Hi I have done some more digging and found this:
1) In the bottom left corner of FCPX, click the film reel so that you can see all your projects:
2) Select the project you are having problems with and then in the inspector window, click on the spanner icon in the lower right side:
3) Finally a window appears so that you can choose the settings for the video you are using:
Hope that helps
G

Multiple URL's in a Flash Video

Good afternoon,
I have created a Flash Video that contains three images that fade in and out between each other. The problem I am having is I want the user to be able to click on an image and get directed to a specific URL. Each of the three images has a different URL destination. I am new to Flash & haven't been able to find a solution anywhere. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. I am using Flash Professional CS5.
Thank You in advance

It's not that you can't do something like that with a .flv, but you still end up making a few movie clips to provide the interactivity. By embedding "cue points" in the .flv, you could trigger a movieclip (an invisible button) to appear over the top of the .flv when one image is displayed. That movieclip would serve as a button with a onRelease to getURL(AS2) or navigateToURL(AS3). This all gets compiled into a .swf anyway... but using the .flv complicates matters a little.
To skip using a .flv, just a .swf, turn each image into a movieclip (be sure they each get an instance name) and in your actions layer in the main timeline assign those getURL(AS2) or navigateToURL(AS3) actions to each movieclip (the image).
navigateToURL:
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3link/
How to create a movie clip:
http://www.heaveninteractive.com/2008/03/03/working-with-movie-clips-in-actionscript-30/
Best of luck on your project!
Adninjastrator

Flash Video Player Need Help

Hello everyone I am hoping someone here can help me. I am going to school and I have an action scripting class. For my final project we have to make a flash video player with a custom skin to upload to our websites. We did something similar to this with our first project which we made a player where the movies where embedded in the file itself but this is supposed to be a youtube like flash player where we can call in the files from another source.
We kind of got pressed for time and were not able to go into detail with this project so the teacher gave us the code and I put it in exactly how it should be but im pretty sure i have something misplaced or I am missing a step. I get 8 different errors when I go to test the movie. and nothing works. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or can you point me in the direction of a tutorial on this as I have been searching for tutorials on this with no luck.
Here is my Action Script 3.0 CODE:
import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
import fl.controls.List;
var vid:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();
vid.source= "fashion.flv";
addChild(vid);
vid.skin="SkinOverPlayStopSeekMuteVol.swf";
vid.x=100;
vid.y=300;
vid.skinAutoHide="true";
vid.width=500;
vid.height=280;
var vidList:List = new List();
vidList.x= vid.x+10;
vidList.y= 200;
vidList.width=200;
vidList.height=100;
vidList.addItem({label:"Bathroom Behavior",data: "bathroom.flv"});
vidList.addItem({label:"Chase Scene",data: "chase.flv"});
vidList.addItem({label:"VMCAD Fashion Design Commercial",data: "fashion.flv"});
addChild(vidList);
vidList.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,playVid);
function playVid(e:Event):void{
vid.source=e.target.selectedItem.data;
Here is a screenshot of the errors I am receiving.
Please help me
thanks
Message was edited by: BTwardy

I don't know if what you posted is all that is in that as file, but you need to declare a package, then call the import statements, then declare the class name. Like this:
package {
     import flash.display.Sprite;
     import flash.events.Event;
     import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
     import fl.controls.List;
     public class Main extends Sprite {
          public function Main() {
               var vid:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();
               vid.source= "fashion.flv";
               addChild(vid);
               vid.skin="SkinOverPlayStopSeekMuteVol.swf";
               vid.x=100;
               vid.y=300;
               vid.skinAutoHide="true";
               vid.width=500;
               vid.height=280;
               var vidList:List = new List();
               vidList.x= vid.x+10;
               vidList.y= 200;
               vidList.width=200;
               vidList.height=100;
               vidList.addItem({label:"Bathroom Behavior",data: "bathroom.flv"});
               vidList.addItem({label:"Chase Scene",data: "chase.flv"});
               vidList.addItem({label:"VMCAD Fashion Design Commercial",data: "fashion.flv"});
               addChild(vidList);
               vidList.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,playVid);
          function playVid(e:Event):void{
               vid.source=e.target.selectedItem.data;
Then click on your stage in Flash, then open the properties window, and fill the Class text field with:   Main
Make sure the as file is saved in the same folder as the flv.

How do I save my video project as a data file?

I am preparing a video project on a deadline and they have requested I send it to them in a data file format. I don't see where I can save it that way. Help!

mickeyb
If you transfer the computer hard drive saved project file to a USB flash drive or to burned to disc as data disc with 3rd party software, the project file will be of little use without its source media and Premiere Elements version that supports it. If your associates are asking for a project file, then consider archiving the project, using Premiere Elements Editor with File Menu/Project Archiver and the Copy Project option. That will save copy of project file plus copies of source media in a Copied Folder to the computer hard drive. This Folder can then be transferred to a USB Flash Drive. The recipient still needs Premiere Elements to open the copy of the project file from the Copied Folder on the USB Flash Drive inserted into the recipient's computer. If a Movie Menu is included with the project, then the following needs to be considered
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: PE12: Archiving Projects With Disc Menus
Is the request for project as data file related to your associates wanting
a. to edit the project
or
b. see what the project looks like in its most current version?
If "b", you might want to think about exporting the Timeline to a AVCHD.mp4 files and saving it as .mp4 data to the computer hard drive or USB Flash Drive. Premiere Elements does not support menus for Timeline content saved to file.
Please review and consider and then we can discuss this further.
Thank you.
ATR

RE: captivate flash video output may not be proper

flash video cannot be loaded. the output may not be proper
What does this mean? I am inserting .flv files so why do I
get this message when I try to publish captivate projects? What can
I do about it?

I stumbled across a solution to this in a moment of desperation. If you put the video file back into Adobe media encoder and convert it to an FLV (even if the file is already an FLV), then it seems to sort itself out.
When you insert a video file, like an mp4, captivate automatically configures it as an FLV so my assumption is that the "not proper" error happens because of something (bad magic, maybe) during this process. Since discovering this I always encode videos as FLVs in Adobe Media encoder before inserting them into the captivate file. Not had a problem like this since (touch wood).

Not all flash videos on websites work

Hi guys,
First off all, I'm really excited because I made the switch to Apple and Leopard. Yay! But I have one issue I can't figure out.
Not all flash videos on websites work, for example: www.x17online.com
Sometimes it's a blank square and sometimes I see an image but I can't play the video. I have flash installed so what's wrong?
Any help is appreciated!

Got a mbpro 2.4 multi touch, 2gb 250gb safari 3.1.x
Video glitches in flash in safari [not in ffox 2.x] !
The video:
http://www.symfony-project.org/screencast/cart
Seems like build up problems...

Importing existing flash video files??

howdy
quick question. if you import existing flash video files into an encore project, will this help reduce the final render time? or will encore rerender the existing flash video files?
cheers
angus

Encore CS3 won't import FLV files. You must render the project to Flash.
You may want to file a feature request at Adobe's support page asking for support for Flash-ready assets, to eliminate the need to transcode in Encore.

Flash Video Lost when Published

I included a flash video in my captivate project. It looks fine in the preview. When I published my project the flash video does not play it just displays a blank slide. I appreciate any advice.

Hi there
Where are you playing the file from? Did you copy it to a server or are you testing on your own PC and seeing the issue?
If you copied to a server, did you remember to copy the FLV file?
Cheers... Rick
Helpful and Handy Links
Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Adobe Certified Captivate Training
SorcerStone Blog
Captivate eBooks

Flash Video and sub-titling

Hi Guys,
Just like to know, if anyone has done any project with flash
video with subtitling.
I have around 20 videos of 5 mins each, I have to put the
subtitling on the videos, the text for the sub titling is available
in Excel sheets, I also have the time point for the subtitling.
Is that possible to load the text dynamically from the excel
sheet or any other format at the given time point in the flash
video.
Any tutorial available for the above topic? please provide me
the link.
Thanks in advance
regards

b_pandey,
> Just like to know, if anyone has done any project with
> flash video with subtitling.
I haven't, but I've done projects in which video had to be
synchronized
with other events.
> I have around 20 videos of 5 mins each, I have to put
> the subtitling on the videos, the text for the sub
titling is
> available in Excel sheets, I also have the time point
for
> the subtitling.
Excellent; you're all set!
> Is that possible to load the text dynamically from the
> excel sheet or any other format at the given time point
> in the flash video.
Not from an Excel sheet, no. But Flash can load text files
and Flash
can interact with databases via PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, and
the like. Given
the time-sensitive nature of your project, however, I would
put the
subtitles right into the SWF itself.
> Any tutorial available for the above topic? please
> provide me the link.
You'll want to read about "cue points" in the documentation
and online.
Here are two tutorials I found by Googling the terms "Flash
video cue
points" ...
http://www.mediacollege.com/flash/video/cuepoints.html
http://www.actionscript4designers.com/wmg3/cuepoints_briefly.html
The second one involves screens, which you probably don't
need, but the
*concept* is, of course, the more important part. The first
tutorial is
more likely to help you.
I would put all the subtitles into an array and use the
cuePoint event,
as described in tutorial #1, to populate the same dynamic
text field over
and over again based on strings in the array.
What this means is that you'll want to familiarize yourself
with the
Array class. Start small, at first. Start a new FLA
altogether and create
nothing in it but an array.
var subtitles:Array = new Array();
Then push items into the array.
subtitles.push("Hello, Ginger.");
subtitles.push("Why, hello, Fred.");
subtitles.push("Care to dance, Ginger?");
subtitles.push("Oh, yes! Let's do!");
Then use trace() to test your understanding of how to pull
information
again from the array.
trace(subtitles[0]); // zero is the first element
trace(subtitles[1]);
trace(subtitles[2]);
// etc.
A for() loop can retrieve them all. Just substitute the
numbers for a
variable that represents numbers.
for (n=0; n<subtitles.length; n++) {
trace(subtitles[n]);
And so on. Looking up the "Array class" entry of the
ActionScript
Language Reference will teach you about the Array.length
property used in
the above sample. All class entries show the properties,
methods, and
events available to a given class. Properties are
characteristics of the
object, methods are things the object can do, and events are
things the
object can react to.
Once you understand arrays, look up the FLVPlayback in the
documentation
and/or follow along in the above tutorials. Just realize that
you'll use
the concepts described to meet your own needs. If you prefer
not to use the
FLVPlayback Component -- and you may not -- look up the Video
class, and
also the NetStream and NetConnection classes to learn how to
load FLVs
without a Component (the NetStream class features an
onCuePoint event). See
also ...
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-load-external-video
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Flash video project

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for