No skin on my video

Flash CS4 Mac.
I'm a real newbie, and I'm sure that I'm missing something
obvious, but:
I create a FLA file (Actionscript 3), I import video, select
"Load video with playback component", chose a skin, and the
component with the skin appears on the stage, but when I select
"test movie", "Publish preview" or when I publish, the movie plays
back without any skin at all... no controls. Hmmm.... What to do?

I solved my problem:
The video player was larger than my stage, so the bottom was
getting cut off. I just increased the dimensions of the stage!
Duoh!

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This may be an obvious one to some of you but I have been
tearing my hair out for several days and cannot find detailed
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I have a requirment to convert several short DV video files
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oconndav,
> Is what I am trying to do possible inside Flash ? Surely
it is?!
It is. :)
> Can I import a DV video, add a control skin and publish
it all
> as a single SWF ?
You can, but be aware that video -- especially sizable video
-- works
best when the FLV file is situated outside the SWF. I
understand that your
project requirements dictate otherwise, which makes this a
bit of a
challenge, but you can put everything into a single SWF. It
just means
you'll be building your elements by hand and will control the
video as if it
were a movie clip (that is, a MovieClip class instance)
instead of an
FLVPlayback instance or Video instance in conjunction with
NetConnection and
NetStream instances.
> I believe there are shareware third party products that
can do
> this, but I really want to use Flash and I can't
understand why
> it appears to be so difficult. (unless I am missing
something
> obvious...)
Well, again, heavy Video files aren't really designed to
play inside
SWFs. For whatever reasons Macromedia/Adobe chose, video is
ideally
designed to be controlled as an external asset.
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component. You
won't even be able to use the older Media components or the
component-less
Video object solution. You'll import your video asset to the
Library, place
it inside a movie clip symbol (which will stretch to an
incredible length),
then place your movie clip on the Stage and give it an
instance name. Once
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ActionScript. The
MovieClip class entry of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference (or 3.0, if
you're uasing AS3) will give you everything you need to know
(and can do)
with movie clips.
ActionScript will give you access to the total number of
frames of that
clip, as well as the current frame. You can tell the playhead
to go to any
of its frames, play, stop, etc. In this way, you can mimic
many of the
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precision.
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... by button
symbols for the buttons (or you could use movie clips), as
well as other
graphic elements. It's going to be a totally
built-from-scratch project,
and you'll have to program the buttons yourself. How would
you rate your
comfort level with ActionScript?
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Video skin

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