Importing Flash Video

I need some help. I have a video. The video is in an *.avi
format and in an *.swf format. When choosing to import a flash
video in Captivate 3, I can only select *.flv file. Can anyone
recommend software that will allow me to convert the avi or swf to
the format that Captivate can import?

You'll probably need to get Flash. The FLV (Flash video)
encoder comes with
Flash 8 or higher.
It's a separate program and takes in avi's or other video
formats and
outputs FLV. It will not convert a SWF to FLV -- FLV is a
video format not a
Flash format, if that makes sense.
Contact me offline if you need further explanation.
Marc Lee
[email protected]
"Turnerbk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I need some help. I have a video. The video is in an
*.avi format and in
an
> *.swf format. When choosing to import a flash video in
Captivate 3, I can
only
> select *.flv file. Can anyone recommend software that
will allow me to
convert
> the avi or swf to the format that Captivate can import?
>

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I'm trying to import a Flash movie into Captivate. I have a
.flv file and a .swf file. If I double click the .swf file the
movie runs fine using the Flash player. If I open captivate and
insert and animation slide (or on a normal slide, insert an
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Im not sure I understand, however I have a page up with 2
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>
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> don't
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> way
> (and i can't find a tutorial).
>
> So i have 20+ videos that are Quicktime and im HD, that
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> into
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> i
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> vimeo.com).
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When I created the new Flash Video using F4V file, during the import wizard, when asked "Where is your video file?" I selected the option "On your computer". Here I selected the file from my local drive.
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Select the FLV Playback component instance, change skin
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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.
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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() {
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               vid.x=100;
               vid.y=300;
               vid.skinAutoHide="true";
               vid.width=500;
               vid.height=280;
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               vidList.addItem({label:"Chase Scene",data: "chase.flv"});
               vidList.addItem({label:"VMCAD Fashion Design Commercial",data: "fashion.flv"});
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               vidList.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,playVid);
          function playVid(e:Event):void{
               vid.source=e.target.selectedItem.data;
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