Inserting Flash movies

I often insert .swf files in my html pages however, lately I
have been trying to insert flash movies in the middle of a bunch of
text. I do something similar with and then, using the property
inspector's align dialog box, I either set the image to be on the
right, the left, or one of the other options. By doing that, the
image looks the way I want it to with the text wrapping around it.
I see that the same type of options appear in the property
inspector when I insert a .swf file but I don't get the desired
result as I do with images. The only way I can fake the look I want
is by putting the flash movie in it's own cell in a table and
breaking up the text above,below or next to the movie the best way
that I can but this is not reliable and I sometimes end up with too
much white space. Is there a parameter I need to set or a style to
add to the swf object? I'd appreciate any suggestions.Thank
you.

This file is not on the server -
http://www.lacybayliss.com/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
but this one is -
http://www.lacybayliss.com/web/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
This means that your link is not properly made to the script
file in the
head of that page, OR that your site definition is not
correct.
<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
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"triple red eye" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I have two sites with this issue:
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http://www.lacybayliss.com/web/index.html
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> and
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http://www.lacybayliss.com/espre/index.html
>
> thanks
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Inserting flash movie ...

Hi,
Maybe I am just stupid right now ... I have a large mpeg
movie from a client
that needs to go on their website, and here is what I do:
I open the Adobe Flash CS3 Video encoder, add the mpeg, set
my preferences,
and let the encoder convert it to a .flv and copy the file
into the web
site. In DW I then chose "insert flash movie", chose the skin
etc. and it
creates the necessary files and the script. Then I upload the
whole thing
with all its dependent files (including the scripts folder, I
also took the
script out of the folder and put it in the root, nothing) ...
and nothing.
The page loads, but the movie is invisible! If I mouse over
it behaves as if
there is indeed something on the page. But nothing visible.
I've done it now a dozen times in a row, then I switched to
another web on
another server, same result ... nothing visible, no movie.
I am so frustrated I could ....
HELP
Barbara

When you moved the script, did you correct the path to it in
your page?
"Barbara" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:g86mp9$8e3$[email protected]..
> Hi,
> Maybe I am just stupid right now ... I have a large mpeg
movie from a
> client
> that needs to go on their website, and here is what I
do:
> I open the Adobe Flash CS3 Video encoder, add the mpeg,
set my
> preferences,
> and let the encoder convert it to a .flv and copy the
file into the web
> site. In DW I then chose "insert flash movie", chose the
skin etc. and it
> creates the necessary files and the script. Then I
upload the whole thing
> with all its dependent files (including the scripts
folder, I also took
> the
> script out of the folder and put it in the root,
nothing) ... and nothing.
> The page loads, but the movie is invisible! If I mouse
over it behaves as
> if
> there is indeed something on the page. But nothing
visible.
>
> I've done it now a dozen times in a row, then I switched
to another web on
> another server, same result ... nothing visible, no
movie.
>
> I am so frustrated I could ....
>
> HELP
>
> Barbara
>

Need help inserting flash movie into article...

I inserted video into flash movie. I loaded the .swf & .fla files onto a server and went into the properties in the flash movie and pointed to the server to pull the .fla file & the movie controls .swf file. I can preview the movie in flash with no problem.
I am wanting to use the object code that was created as part of the .html file that was generated by flash and insert this into an article to display the video. I path the .swf file in the object code to point to where it resides on the server but the video will not play using just the object code. Is there a way to do this using just a object or embed code without the need for scripts?
(I am using CS4 version)

If the swf file does not reside in the same folder as the html page that loads it, then if the video is dynamically loaded into the Flash file, chances are the targeting in the swf needs to be adjusted. If the swf files just targets the video by its filename alone, try putting the video file in the same folder as the html file and see if it gets loaded.

Problems inserting flash movie into webpage

I am trying to insert 2 different flash movies on one webpage
One is a banner made in flash cs4 that works fine.
The other is a movie that I encoded with flash cs4 from a m4v file. When i test this file using the flash player on my computer everything works fine.
When i try to play on the webpage it shows there is flash object in dreamweaver but is blank in webbrowser.(right clicking shows there is flash there but nothing loads)
I have managed to get the movie working on a completly blank html file except that there are no controls (controls work fine in the flash player on computer)
As far as I can deduce it's not the html file because one swf file works ok
It's not how i'm inserting it onto the page because dreamweaver is doing it for me(and including the nessecary javascript etc)
It's not the movie because that works in the flash player on it's own.
So i'm stumped
any ideas guys?
(if it's any help the webpage it's on is www.csdrummer.co.uk , click on top right image on sidebar, has play button, under navigation)
Thanks
Jamie

I'm sorry I missunderstood the post from earlier. If I add the flv file in dreamweaver and upload the corresponding swf all works well but the flv file is 45mb which is a bit large for a 3 min video.
What i would like to do is turn this into a swf file. But this is where the problem is happening. THe swf when i export from flash wont work, comes up in the browser as doesn't load
Jamie

Insert Flash Movie

In inserting a Flash swf file into Dreamweaver; I have tried
a variet of settings percentage Height, width. Border alighnments,
etc. and can not get the entire Flash mocie to fit into an HTML.
About 80-85% of the movie is visable. Meaning it plays through but
can not see the (in my case) upper and side 15%.
ANy ideas why it may not be fitting?

Hi,
in my DW (CS4) these steps are necessary (translated from my German DW):
Insert (Einfügen) > Media (Medien) > SWF > see image:
In one of my newer DW it looks like this:
Hans-Günter

Problem inserting Flash movie into a Dreamweaver page

Hi, I've inserted a .swf movie on this page. It used to work, but doesn't now. In Dreamweaver (CC), when I highlight the movie and click 'Play' in the Property Inspector it works (but doesn't in 'Live' view within DW).
Please be gentle about my code. I'm a hobbyist and started this site about 7 years ago so don't have time to keep up with latest coding trends! Answers re. non-appearance of movie only, please.

Flash really isn't the way to do this anymore, very few people viewing your site with a mobile device are going to be able to see your .swf. Adobe stopped mobile Flash development a few years back and most devices that used to be able to see Flash, no longer ship with a Flash plug-in. Certain devices, like all Apple iOS devices, never had the ability and there is no way to add it to those.
Since it appears when uploaded, I would guess the reason it doesn't work locally likely has something to do with your machine's security settings, especially if Microsoft is involved in the equation somewhere. If it works when uploaded, you're good to go.
HTML5 <video>, CSS3 and jQuery (javascript) are now the default for video and animation for websites since they're compatible with virtually all devices used to browse the internet.

Problems inserting flash movies with DW CS 3

I just started playing with DW CS3 and I got a feeling I'm
doing something wrong here but when I go place a Flash SWF in a
Dreamweaver HTML page the Flash portion of the page is not showing
up when the site is placed on a sever and looked at over the net,
I've tested it on a couple of PC's now so I'm pretty sure its not
the brower messing up.
Now’s here’s the crazy thing. When I preview the
page from DW CS3 the flash elements are coming up just fine!
They look like there is some kind of auto swfObject attached
to them cause of the removal of the "click here to activate this
control" message.
I've been using Dreamweaver 8 as a work around but this
seems really strange to me any one got any ideas on what’s
going on here?
Thx for the help
John

This file is not on the server -
http://www.lacybayliss.com/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
but this one is -
http://www.lacybayliss.com/web/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
This means that your link is not properly made to the script
file in the
head of that page, OR that your site definition is not
correct.
<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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"triple red eye" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:fofl7t$2tg$[email protected]..
>I have two sites with this issue:
>
>
http://www.lacybayliss.com/web/index.html
>
> and
>
http://www.lacybayliss.com/espre/index.html
>
> thanks
>
>

Flash movies won't play in document or browser

Hi there,
I am having problems with putting flash movies onto my website. I know this is a common problem so apologies for any repetition.
I have trawled through a lot of forums trying to solve this issue and so far have not found a solution that works for me.
First of all I'm using dreamweaver v7, on a macbook OSX (intel)
On inserting flash movie, only the box with 'f' apears in the document, and in browser, nothing at all. It doesn't worry me so much that the movie doesn't appear in the doc, as with shockwave it's the same. However shockwaves play fine in browser.
I have tried the following so far:
- moved the movie .flv file to the same folder as the html document that it relates to
- made the file name really, really simple. 6 letters and no other characters.
- tested in alternative browsers
- tried inserting another flash object (flash button) to see whether the problem resides in inserting flash objects, or if the problem is with the movie file itself (the flash button worked, so I thought the movie file must be the problem) - so then ...
- I tried compressing the movie in a different programme - I tried sorenson squeeze - still nothing
- As inserting the movie as a quicktime works fine using 'insert shockwave', I even tried changing the file extension of the QT version from .mov to .swf as I read somewhere that it might work (!!!??) but it didn't though the movie still played without dreamweaver
So, I reach the conclusion that the movie is not after all the problem - but what is? since inserting other flash objects does work?
Very confused! Thank you for any help offered.... Laura

I am a bit confused though - is flash video not the same as flash movie?
No. Flash refers to its files as movie files. FLA (editable) and SWF (compressed for Web) are Flash movies - not to be confused with cinema. FLV files are Flash Video files.
Just to confuse matters some, just prior to the creation of the .flv format, it was not uncommon to import videos into Flash and save them as .swf movies (videos). But that was only good for very short, very small videos.
Additionally, since you brought it up, Shockwave files are also referred to as movies. But they are created by Director, not Flash. Director, like Flash, refers to its files as movie files. DIR is the editable file and DCR is the Shockwave-compressed file for the Web. The Shockwave plugin is not the same as the Shockwave Flash plugin. Shockwave Flash cannot play Shockwave movies, but Shockwave movies can play Flash .swf movies - neither of which are videos.
How's that for clear as mud?
Mark A. Boyd
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AW/Flash Movie not playing with Skin

We inserted flash movie files (developed in Captivate-saved
as flash 6 with a skin) using the insert flash movie menu option in
AW7.02. We inserted the skin and it also pulls the captivate movie.
We published using 1 button publishing. Our self-executables work
fine. However on the web the skin appears but the movie does not
play. If we imsert the movie alone, it plays but doesn't have the
play/pause/stop/slide bar controls that the skin provides. Any
suggestions?

> We inserted flash movie files (developed in
Captivate-saved as flash 6
> with a
> skin) using the insert flash movie menu option in
AW7.02. We inserted the
> skin
> and it also pulls the captivate movie. We published
using 1 button
> publishing.
> Our self-executables work fine. However on the web the
skin appears but
> the
> movie does not play. If we imsert the movie alone, it
plays but doesn't
> have
> the play/pause/stop/slide bar controls that the skin
provides. Any
> suggestions?
>
I had a similar problem a few months ago. I asked one of the
Captivate
engineers. Here's his response.
===================
Open the skin Editor (Project -> Skin...) From the
'Borders' Tab, Deselect
'Show Borders'.
Doing the above two steps will result in only one output file
which will
include the playbar. However, it will overlap some part of
the content.
To use old (Captivate 1 style) playback controls, do the
following:
Open the Skin Editor and from the 'Skin' Drop down combo box,
select 'BMP
Playbars'.
If you wish that your playback control should not overlap the
content and
still output is one file, then do the following.
Turn off the borders (as explained above).
From Project menu, open 'Resize Project'
In the 'Resize project' dialog, Increase only the height by
20 pixels.
In the group below (left hand side, 'if new size is lager'),
select 'Keep
project the same size and fill bg with color' and selct a
color.
Select the position of project as top center.
Do not rescale any objects
In the above way, your output will only be one file and still
will include
the playback controls and the playback controls will not
overlap the
content.
=================
Steve
EuroTAAC eLearning 2007
http://www.eurotaac.com
Adobe Community Expert: Authorware, Flash Mobile and Devices
My blog -
http://stevehoward.blogspot.com/

How do I insert a movie in Flash format?

How do I import or insert a movie in Flash format to
Fireworks? Because I had no problem doing so with image files, but
when I try to import the .swf file, it brings "All readable
files"and .swf are not included. Please I am in a hurry with this,
help me.

admaldo wrote:
> How do I import or insert a movie in Flash format to
Fireworks?
You can't. You need to do that in Dreamweaver.
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This is a ditto... but Inserting Camtasia movies (MP4-Flash) into Captivate (a path or JS challenge)

I’m using Captivate v. 6 and Camtasia v. 8
I’ve created Camtasia movies as MP4 – Flash.
My Captivate project is a SCORM housed on an LMS (SyberWorks) for the company’s internal intranet.
In Captivate I’ve inserted/imported movies as Event Videos, Progressive Download with a playbar/skin.
Movies are housed on same directory level as the .html and .swf zipped files.
Path to video files are relative (ie)
Z:\Orgs\ogslp\Courses\2012DfltPrvnt\Test 6 Flash with controller2.mp4
I did find the following note on Adobe’s site:
Note: If your Adobe Captivate project contains FLV/F4V files, ensure that the files contain metadata for the video player to function correctly. FLV/F4V files created with Flash Communication Server 1.5.2, FLV Exporter version 1.2, and Sorenson Squeeze® 4.0 automatically contain metadata. Sorenson Squeeze 4.0 is included with the Flash Video Kit. If you import an FLV file that does not have any metadata, the file will not play correctly in your project.
and am waiting for the IT department to get a copy of Adobe Media Encoder so I can embed javascript into my mp4/Flash Movies.
The movies of course play very well off my hard drive, but not off the LMS, a deja vu from the link below.
So… is my issue a path issue or do I simply need to embed javascript into my video(s), or perhaps both?
These Adobe forum links have been the most helpful
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4529946#4529946
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1090685?tstart=0
And PS, why are no videos showing up in the video manager? I can see them in the author slides, but not in the manager.
Thnx - wjf

This is a reply to my own message. A work around that will allow our team to move forward is to make a screen capture of a screen capture. We have content experts who are equipped with Camtasia. These folks will make their narrated movies. I'll then capture their movies with Captivate's screen capture by following: Insert > Recording Slide. Google Chrome of course has the Flash player installed by default so I open the mp4 (M4V) or FLV movie via Chrome and use Captivate's Recording Slide, choose Video Demo option. This gets me a Camtasia screen capture into Captivate. Import audio on its own and it matches up with my test of a movie 1 minute long (longer videos might slip out of sync - will test this).
However, the movie does not have the convenient playbar attached, so video navigation/control can be gained via a Captivate playbar for the slide itself. This offers a double set of navigation options b/c I also created my own set of navigation controls with Flash, but with a simple set of instructions users will know to use bottom playbar for video control and my flash buttons for slide navigation. Its a bit clunky, but this is what I have for now until the engineers have time to target the following:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1090685?tstart=0
PS I'm sure a simple javascript code could fix this, but for me javascript isn't so easy;)
Happy Veterans Day!!

DW CS4: How to play a Flash Movie in a NEW window after clicking a link or a button on a page?

Hi, using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, I would like to have a link or a button on a webpage that when clicked will play a Flash Movie in a new window.
Using the 'Insert Panel' > Media: FLV I managed to insert the .flv file on the page, but the movie plays 'in line' instead of in a new window. So far I can't find any 'Properties' or settings to change this behaviour. E.g. like Target _blank for opening e.g. a .pdf in a new Window.
> Please help.
Thank you!

Try using one of the popular javascript methods for this. I use shadowbox and you can find examples, info and a download here: http://www.shadowbox-js.com

Page won't display flash movie

Hi I just posted my website and I have a flash movie on the
page and when I render it in firefox from dreamweaver it shows up
fine but on the server it is blank.
The website is
www.silvereaglemarketing.com
here's the code
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','wid th','800','height','120','title','machines_movie','src','Flash/machines1','quality','high' ,'pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shock waveFlash','movie','Flash/machines1'
); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"
width="800" height="120" title="machines_movie">
<param name="movie" value="Flash/machines1.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="Flash/machines1.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800"
height="120"></embed>
</object></noscript>

Did you upload the Scripts folder that DW places in your
local site when you
insert Flash?
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"desypher" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Hi I just posted my website and I have a flash movie on
the page and when
> I
> render it in firefox from dreamweaver it shows up fine
but on the server
> it is
> blank.
>
> The website is
>
> www.silvereaglemarketing.com
>
> here's the code
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=9,0,28,0','width','800','height','120','title','machines_movie','src','F
> lash/machines1','quality','high','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/d
>
ownload/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','Flash/machines1'
> ); //end AC code
> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" width="800" height="120"
title="machines_movie">
> <param name="movie" value="Flash/machines1.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="Flash/machines1.swf" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio
> n=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="800"
> height="120"></embed>
> </object></noscript>
>

Problem: Flash movie plays on desktop, but not on website

Hi, I'm new to Flash but have successfully created a Flash Movie that works using Firefox and Safari on my (iMac) desktop, but not after I upload to my website.
I started with an flv video, imported it into an fla document along with a playback skin then published it creating an html file and two swf files. I've checked the html file, and it looks fine. The flv file is only 17MB and I've uploaded all 5 files to my site on:
http://www.cantata.co.uk/temp2/minorswing.html
but all I seem to get is the control skin's "sending data" pole turning.The movie never arrives. I can get much bigger mpeg and wmv movies up on my screen very quickly.
Can anyone suggest what the problem may be? I'm running Snow Leopard on my Mac (OX 10.6.6). I've tried using different videos but nothing seems to work.
Here's the relevant html generated by Flash
<div id="flashContent">
            <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="390" id="minorswing" align="middle">
                <param name="movie" value="minorswing.swf" />
                <param name="quality" value="high" />
                <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                <param name="play" value="true" />
                <param name="loop" value="false" />
                <param name="wmode" value="window" />
                <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                <param name="menu" value="true" />
                <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                <param name="salign" value="" />
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="minorswing.swf" width="640" height="390">
                    <param name="movie" value="minorswing.swf" />
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                    <param name="play" value="true" />
                    <param name="loop" value="false" />
                    <param name="wmode" value="window" />
                    <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                    <param name="menu" value="true" />
                    <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                    <param name="salign" value="" />
                    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                
                    <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash">
                        <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
                    </a>
                
                </object>
                
            </object>
        </div>
Many thanks if you can help
Steve

Thanks - I don't know what as2 is. I'm using Flash CS5. When I import the flv movie file, I'm asked to choose a skin and then a window comes up to tell me that the address of the flv file with respect to the other files will be minorswing.flv by which I take it to mean that all the files need to be in the same level of folder (directory). All five are in the same folder on my Mac and in the same folder on my website. I can't see how I can influence the program in choosing a different structure or outputting different html in the Publish Settings or elsewhere.
I would have expected the relative structure of the files to be maintained between my desktop, where I can play the movie in my browsers, and the website, where I can't. I was surprised there was no "src" param name in the html, and I did try inserting one, but it made no difference, so I assumed the default for the html is to be in the same folder as the html and that the minorswing.swf file would contain information on the whereabouts of the flv file and the skin swf file.
Is there a way of reading or editing the swf files to include an absolute url?

How can I add a library of flash movies to my site?

I posted this same question on the Dreamweaver forum and a suggestion was made that I try over here for help, so please excuse the duplicate question.
How can I add a library of flash movies to my site?
Hey there everyone and thanks for reading my question.
I have a library of flash movies (specifically a library of maps) and when the map movies are run in Flash they call each other just fine (i.e. the USA map will load the Georgia map when Georgia is clicked on the USA map, etc etc etc for each state).
HOWEVER, when I insert the USA map in one of my site pages (I'm working on the site using Dreamweaver CS4) the USA map page will load, but when a state is clicked the area on the page for the map goes blank and the state map does not load.
Short of coding a specific path in each of my state maps (in the Flash editor) is there a way to tell Dreamweaver there is a library of maps, look there for the sub-map?
and if I do have to code the path to the map, can I code a relative path rather than a specific URL address for the maps?
I know this is probably one of those simple things, but I'm not seeing it (can you tell I'm new at this??)
Thanks in advance for any help!
Frances

Hey again,
Thanks for the helpful suggestions. Everyone's comments got me to thinking about what the path was in the calls from the maps.
here is what finally worked:
on (release)
loadMovie("../FlashIMapDownloads/georgia.swf", 0);
this script code is in the action script for the "georgia" button of my main map - a US Map. (I hope I'm describing all this correctly).
I'll post this same info in the Dreamweaver forum too.
Thanks again!
Frances

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