Hiding flash controls in HTML

I have created a video on After Effects and exported it as a
AVI. I then opened Flash Encoder and created a FLV file out of
that. I then added the FLV file into Dream Weaver on my webpage.
When the page loads the flash file plays, but shows the controls.
How do I get that to not show the controls and just play? You can
look at my test site to see what I mean.
http://www.getcapturednow.com/test.htm
Thanks

Your embedding code looks to be on the short side of completeness, so you might consider letting Flash generate an html page and copy the code from that. If that doesn't fix anything, then you might also try using full url's in the getURL calls (http://www.etc...)

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