Suggested method for creating flash video?

I've searched through the forums and see that Apple seems to want to make things difficult for creating flash video for some reason. Regardless of why, does anyone have a suggestion for a simple solution to take a QuickTime movie file and convert/export it to flash video? I don't need a lot of bells and whistles, just the ability to end up with a flash file of my video. Thanks.

Thanks, but I'm really trying to find something for use on my Mac. Or perhaps I'm trying to do something that isn't even necessary... What's the recommended method for creating good-quality video from my Mac to be used on the web? Flash stuff seems to have a great quality for smaller file sizes. Is there a comparable format I could use on my Mac to get similar results which most web users could open without installing some additional software to read it?

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....i debug the movie step by step
and realised that the xml file is being read by the code...
Your original problem stated it worked but not when playing
outside the
Flash authoring environment by simply loading the swf from
the hard drive.
The Flash authoring environment is a trusted environment and
so you really
need to test in the actual deployment mode which loading an
swf from the
hard drive is not a valid deployment unless an installed
Flash player is
available outside the web browser which you would have as you
have the
authoring tool and your users will not.
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Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
"free23" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
sorry but i don't understand what you mean....i debug the
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#Fields: date time x-pid x-status x-ctx x-comment
2006-05-15 20:08:58 3072 (i)2651170 Unloaded application
instance
videosource/_definst_ -
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Hello! You are
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before client
connection has been accepted. -
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ps.
This
is the link to the tutorial I mentioned ...

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ps.
This
is the link to the tutorial I mentioned ...

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