Problems playing a SWF in PowerPoint

I insert a SWF in PowerPoint and it loads and plays perfectly the first time. I close and save the presentation as it is to my liking. When I re-open the presentation the SWF file is still on the slide, however, it will not play. How do I fix this?

Adobe creative site has the functionality to embed swf files into PowerPoint. So I don't care if its not a good idea. I just want to know the issue.
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any brevity or misspellings.

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Hello everyone
I have created an web gallery using Bridge and tried playing a swf file containing the slideshow with no luck. When I double-click the file, it open an Adobe Flash Player window but a spiral appears at the centre and just keeps turning. Because my intention is to upload the swf file to a website, I really need to get the file to play the slideshow.
Has anyone succeeded in making a standalone swf file using Bridge or any other Adobe product? If so, please let me know how to.
Thank you,
Pom

Henk,
I'm not on 3.0 so I can't help you out, but I would suggest re-posting on the Enterprise Administration portion, perhaps it'll get more notice there for a resolution.
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John

Problem Playing Multiple SWFs in Dreamweaver

so my problem is this......
In my flash Document I have One main SWF and two other SWF's
that load onto a different layer in the main SWF. Everything works
great in Flash and Dreamweaver when I preview in Browser but when i
upload to the web it doesn't function. Am i doing something wrong?
I made sure all files were in my root folder and that they were
uploaded to the server.

you probably didn't upload the "scripts" folder that DW
creates when you
insert a flash video (which is understandable, since the only
place
where that's mentioned is here, when people come to ask "why
won't my
flash video work?!" which happens probably daily....even i
did it!).
so check that. if that's not the problem, you should probably
post a link.
PCL_Jennifer wrote:
>
> so my problem is this......
> In my flash Document I have One main SWF and two other
SWF's that load onto a
> different layer in the main SWF. Everything works great
in Flash and
> Dreamweaver when I preview in Browser but when i upload
to the web it doesn't
> function. Am i doing something wrong? I made sure all
files were in my root
> folder and that they were uploaded to the server.
>
>

Firefox doesn't play embedded swf

I've looked on many forums, including Firefox, with no real answer. Running Firefox 4. It just doesn't play embedded SWF. My Adobe Flashplayer is up to date, so is the plugin. The page displays properly. But the area that should be displaying a movie is just represented by a tiny square. No error message appears. The same page doesn't show the movie in IE9 either.
Now from looking at the page information, it just requires Flashplayer 6 and above for the SWF area. I do have Flashplayer 10. The plugin says Shockwave Flash player 10 is up to date. Many other pages with different types of embedded movies play properly.

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Also check that you aren't blocking cookies.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Cookies
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
*Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Note that a reset imports cookies, so isn't really suited if cookie issues are a possible cause, unless you clear the cookies.

Play multiple .SWF in sequence

I have two swf files that I would like to play in sequence in a main flash file. The two swf files are partA.swf and partB.swf. I set up two frames using this actionscript 3 snippet:
Frame 1:
Code:
var partARequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("partA.swf");
var partALoader:Loader = new Loader();
partALoader.load(partARequest);
addChild(partALoader);
Frame 2:
Code:
var partBRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("partB.swf");
var partBLoader:Loader = new Loader();
partBLoader.load(partBRequest);
addChild(partBLoader);
I made sure to set new loaders that correspond to it's proper swf file. So partA.swf goes with partALoader and partB.swf goes with partBLoader.
I noticed that individually they work great. If I just set up frame 1 or frame 2 by themselves, the swf file plays. When placed together, however, either frame 1 plays without going to frame 2 OR frame 2 plays by default without playing frame 1 first.
How can I get this to work properly in sequence?
Just to break things down, this is how I would like the set up.
1. Play frame 1 which plays partA.swf,
2. Stop when finished and go to frame 2 which plays partB.swf
3. Stop movie, no need to loop.
4. Would like to have option for adding more swf files
I don't use flash much, so guidance with code is much appreciated. I would think this is a simple task, but searching for a proper solution hasn't been successful.
Also just to clarify from previous searches and posts I looked at: I am not using buttons, and this is using actionscript 3.0 not 2.0, and this is using only .swf files.
Thanks a bunch

Here's a nice trick that Andrei1 taught me a week ago or so that should sort out your problem:
On the last frame of partA.swf, you could dispatch an event, like so:
dispatchEvent(new Event("advanceParentTimeline"));
Then, in your parent movie on the frame that partA gets loaded, you can listen for the text, like so:
stage.addEventListener("advanceParentTimeline", onTextRequest, true);
Add the following function to the same frame with the listener mentioned above, and if your parent movie hears that text, send your movie to frame 2, like so:
function onTextRequest(e:Event):void {
gotoAndStop(2);
Hope that helps,
~Chipleh

Playing a .swf on a PC?

My client is trying to play a .swf file (outside of a
browser) on his PC. He has Flash Player 10 installed, but the
player doesn't seem to recognize the file. I can play this file on
a Mac with no problems. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
D.

He has the browser plugin - what he doesn't have is the
stand-alone player
that comes only with the flash program. You can convert the
SWF to an EXE
(open SWF and go to File > Create Projector...). Then zip
the EXE before
sending him (Email clients will likely flag attached EXE
files as harmful
and junk them).
The EXE will package the SWF with the player. He'll be able
to watch your
SWF but it doesn't mean he will have the stand-alone player
to view other
SWFs with - he needs to buy the flash program if he wants to
watch SWF
outside of his browser (an expensive decision).
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> My client is trying to play a .swf file (outside of a
browser) on his PC.
> He
> has Flash Player 10 installed, but the player doesn't
seem to recognize
> the
> file. I can play this file on a Mac with no problems.
Any suggestions
> would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> D.
>

Problems with embedding swfs into Director 11.5

Hello everyone,
I am hoping someone can help me and please bear with me - I don't know a lot about director - I can do some Lingo and get around in the program to make things work.
Right now I am working on an interactive presentation where the user can click a button to view an animation. I am using Director 11.5 for my presentation and have made my animations in After Effects CS3 -- from there I converted my .mov files to .flv files using the Adobe Media Encoder CS4... then I took my .flv file into Flash and published it as a swf file.
The problem that I am having is that when I play the presentation (within Director and after publishing the .app/projector file) the swf files are playing - but there is all this glitchy-artifact stuff all over them. Does anyone know why this would be happening? When I play the swf files in the flash player they look great. Before, when I was using Flash MX and Director MX, I never had any problems with embedding my swf animation files - and they played great - without any artifact. Any and all help would be much appreciated as this project is due in the next few days and I would prefer to figure out a solution rather than uninstalling Flash CS4 and Director 11.5 - and going back to MX.
I toyed with the thought that my video card isn't good enough but I tested the .app file on another machine and the glitchy-artifacts were still there. I have attached a jpg showing the artifact that appears.
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7
Dual 2 GHz G5 PowerPC
ATI Radeon X800 XT
Thank you!

Sorry... here is the image again and I think the problem might be my machine -- it is very old (~4+ years) and when I tested my .app on a newer intel mac here it worked fine... but maybe I am missing something -- it seems odd that I can see the swf fine in flash player but it is glitchy when played through director or the .app projector file

Flash player can't play a .swf file alone

I've have a weird issue regarding flash.
I used Flash CS5 to create an interactive presentation. Everything works perfectly.
My problem is, for some unknown reason, everytime I try to open a stand alone .swf using flash player, the player always opens my interactive presentation instead and tries to load the .swf INTO it. Using the finder's info window, when I do select a .swf, I get the information all my .swf have been changed to "interactive presentation files", and the default application assigned to open these files is my own presentation.
I can manually change these settings to select Flash player or Flash CS5 back as the default application for all .swf's, but as soon as I close the info window, the files immediately becomes "interactive presentation" files again, so Flash player insists in openning the fiels inside my presentation.
There's a permanent way to fix this?
I'm using a Mac Intel core duo 2.
EDIT: I temporarily solved the problem deleting all copies of my presentation's projector. The flash player atemmpted to use another presentation instead to open .swf files, so I deleted that one too. After that, now plays the .swf files as normal. The only problem is, if for any reason I do re-install any of my interactive presentations proyectors, Flash player immediately tries to use them to play the .swf's... so the problem really remains unsolved.

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Embedding SWF into Powerpoint 2007....

I use this method to place a SWF in Powerpoint 2007. (see below).
My question is... how do I make the path relative and not absolute? So whatever path/destination I put in the "Movie" property is absolute and if and when I sent this PPTX file to someone (like in a folder) the SWF no longer plays. I wanted to make a path that is relative... so instead of putting "C:\Use\Profile\Desktop\Flash.swf" I wanted to know if I could do something like "Flash.swf" and then it'll play the SWF since it'd be in the root (or maybe a subfolder).
Place SWF in Powerpoint 2007:
1. Click Office Button.
2. Click “Powerpoint Options”
3. Under the “Popluar” tab check “Show Developer tab in the Ribbon”. Click OK
4. Click the “Developer” tab.
5. Click the “More Controls” button (wrench/hammer icon)
6. Choose “Shockwave Flash Object”. Click OK.
7. Cursor turns to crosshairs. Drag box to house the object.
8. In the “Properties” pop-up, find “Movie”.
9. Under “Movie”. Paste in the path of the file. (i.e. C:\Users\Profile\Desktop\flashAnimation.swf
a. Try to put the SWF in the same root location as the PPTX.

You can insert a .swf file into PowerPoint using the method you described with both an absolute and a relative path. But that will just insert it and play it as a linked file.
What you seem to want to do is to embed the file. That's tricker. The .pptx file extension apparently has a known and unfixed bug that won't let you embed a .swf. There's nothing out there, that I could find that may be of help. But you could try these two steps:
In the properties panel for the insered swf, find the EmbedMovie property and set it to "True".
Then Save As... your Presentation to the older file format (.ppt not .pptx). This may show up in the Save menu as "PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation".
This may work, you should take note that the file size should increase significantly. If the Presentation's file size doesn't increase, then you know it hasn't been embedded and the animation will not play if you email the file (because it's not included).

I have a problem running linear SWF's in Dreamweaver

I have about a day to fix a problem I am having.
Basically i created a short story in Flash and linked each SWF file to the next scene via buttons, to make it as quick loading as possible. When previewed in Flash to see if it works, it works fine. When each SWF is previewed in a Browser, it works fine.
Scene1 -> Scene2 -> Scene3, and so on.
It worked fine when i previewed it in Flash, but as soon as i place the SWF in Dreamweaver, it plays the 1st scene automatically, but won't play the linked SWF when i click on the next button (When previewing)..
Any ideas?

Most likely the problem is that the paths to the 2nd, 3rd, etc .swfs is not correct.
This is a very common problem when using .swfs and other Flash assets.
All of the SWF files are in the same folder
whether or not the .swfs are in the same folder is not at all important,
you MUST have all 5 in the same folder
actually you can place the .swf files where ever you want.You could even place them in 5 different folders if you want. The main thing to remember is that when you call or link to each .swf, you link as though the .swf in in the same folder as the Web page... NOT the actual, physical location of the .swf.
When previewed in Flash to see if it works, it works fine. When each SWF is previewed in a Browser, it works fine.
While it may seem counterintuitive, because they work in Flash and the Web browser is an indication that the pathing is WRONG!! as odd as that may seem!
The reason the links work when tested in Flash is that the pathing is assuming that all the .swfs are in the same folder, so then path from one to another is... as you say
Scene1 -> Scene2 -> Scene3, and so on.
but that is NOT the correct pathing relative to using .swfs on a Web page outside the folder the .swf files are in.
it plays the 1st scene automatically, but won't play the linked SWF when i click on the next button
Sure, that's because you know that from the Web paqe the path to the .swf is..."/flash_folder/scene1.swf" (or whatever the actual pathing is).
But the path from "scene1.swf" to "scene2.swf" is NOT as you diagramed above, rather you need to path relative to the Web page, since "scene1.swf" is now (in effect) located on the Web page.
So the correct path from scene1 to scene2 would be ..."/flash_folder/scene2.swf", then from scene2 to scene3 is similarly pathed, etc.
When all is said and done and the navigation is correctly pathed, when testing the .swfs directly in Flash... the links WILL NOT WORK!! Why, that's because the pathing from one scene to another is coded in the .swf as though the .swf is located in the same folder as the Web page.
And just a slight clarification on relative verses absolute addresses.
Relative addresses declare a path reltive to the physical location of the file. So "relative" (or from the location of) the scene1.swf, the path to scene2.swf is simply "scene2". The path relative to (or from the location of) the Web page might be "/flash_folder/scene2.swf"
Absolute addresses on the other hand decribe the physical location of a file on a Web server and include the http://www.mysite.com part of the path.
../secondscene/swf/2.swf' - this is absolute linking
is not really an absoloute address, it's a relative address (which may or may not be root relative)... saying that from this location (relative to this location), go up one folder level then into the "secondscene" folder, then into the "swf" folder and find the "2.swf" file.
The actual absolute address for that file would be
http://www.mysite.com/secondscene/swf/2.swf'
Using absolute addresses are useful on dynamic Web sites like WordPress if for example you have a file that you want to access from many location or folder levels in the site.
Absolute addressing would also be useful for you if, for example, you wanted your scene linking .swf pathing scheme to work from different sub folder levels on your site. The root relative pathing shown above would not work for example from this page:
www.mysite.com/about_us/friends/meet_us.html
you would have to create anew pathing layout.
Using absolute pathing to the .swfs on the other hand would allow the browser to find all the .swfs regardless of where you place the link to the .swf on the entire Web site. The "Absolute" path or URL to that .swf is always:
http://www.mysite.com/secondscene/swf/2.swf'
You can even use absolute links on a completely different Web site and still find the .swf (like YouTube embed code, etc.).
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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Sample rate too high for swf or PowerPoint export

Hi,
I have a few presentations that need to be exported to swf or PowerPoint. Each of the slides use audio Voice Over. The problem is that when I go to export I'm told that because the audio uses a sample rate of 48khz it can't be exported.
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OK, thanks for clearing that up.
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