Timeline progress for Flash in Encore

When building a video to export to Flash, everything works fine, however when opening up the finished web page and playing one of the videos, there is no "timeline progress bar" to allow web users to move to wherever desired, as is standard with videos. The only thing I see are default buttons (that are DVD-like), which are great for DVDs, but not for the web. Is this a feature that I am missing (I am new to Encore)? Is it possible?
Thanks!
tom

I think it is the BluRay encoder settings. I'm in CS3 now, waiting for more vid card support before going to CS5. That was my question: should I be increasing or reducing the BluRay, actually 1080i, encoder settings. I'm at 10/18/24 in PPRO to create .mv2 files to import into Encore. (I am under the impression both Encore and PPRO use the same encoder so it doesn't matter where I encode). Flashes are occuring in sections with no transitions, effect, titles, etc--just plain old HDV film from a SONY HDR FX7 with one or two audio tracks -mic and a .wav file (PCM) . It's random. Sometimes a whole film with no problem and plenty of effects, other times big problems and a simple film. That's why I am narrowing it down to encoder settings, but I'm not an expert and appreciate the help people give here!

Similar Messages

Encore CS3 hangs on "Come for Blue-ray stay for Flash"! Leopard 10.5.2...

I just got my new MacPro running Leopard. Installed CS3 Master Collection. I opened Premiere ok, Photoshop, etc...but when I tried Encore it just hangs on the part that says "Come for Blue-ray stay for Flash"!
I tried to make a dvd out of premiere going to encore it just had the beach ball spinning.
Thanks in advance anyone who can help.
rb.
ps:not sure if this cause an issue but I installed an LG GGW-H20L blue-ray burner(it showed up fine in system profilier as sata device in the 2nd-lower open drive bay...)

An update.
Encore would not launch with the LG GGW-H20L installed in my brand new MacPro. Once I unplugged it it launched Encore CS3. So I do not recommend this blue-ray burner in OSX Leopard.
I'm wondering if the Pioneer BDR-202 would work with MacPro, Leopard 10.5.2, Encore 3.0.2 update.
If anyone has any info please share!

Design skin with catalyst for flash encore export ?

Hello,
How is it possible to redesign and animate default encore export flash skin (flashDVD.swf during video playback) with Catalyst ?
What are files we have to change in encore roots folder (xlm,html,swf) to insert new design and interactiv skin during video playback?
My project is to design my own animated skin for flash export in encore cs4.
For the moment in encore we only have this skin: flashdvd.swf (see attached file) when we export our project for flash.
This skin looks like dvd interactive panel, but i would like to add new interactiv button, a way to change loading video position.
I didn't find any informations about that in encore's documentations and it seems to me an very important creativ part.
Thanks a lot and sorry for my english,
Rudo_fr

Hi Rudo_fr,
I think this might be a question for the Encore forums. I'm not familiar with Encore. Here's what I can tell you: at the end of the day, Catalyst creates a SWF file (just like Flash Professonal and Flash Builder). If you can then get Encore to use that SWF file as the video player skin, you should be golden. So I would recommend going to the Encore forums and asking: how do I use an arbitrary SWF as my video player skin?
-Adam

Export To Flash in Encore CS4 on the Mac

It has been widely reported (and I have confirmed) that Encore CS3 will not Build to Flash on a Mac running Leopard 10.5.5 and Quicktime 7.5.5 (the latest versions of Mac OS X and Quicktime). I would be most appreciative if anyone who has received Encore CS4 can determine if Build To Flash works on a Mac running OS 10.5.5 and Quicktime 7.5.5.
Thank you in advance for responding.
Tom

Since no one has responded to my post on this issue, I can now provide the answer. First however, I want to insert the final comment in a long customer service request that I have had running with Adobe Technical Support since early August on this issue.
"Monday, October 20, 2008 1:59:20 PM PDT
Hello Tom,
Thank you for contacting Adobe® Web Support for assistance with Adobe
Encore® CS3.
I understand that you are not able to export as flash from Encore CS3.
On my Mac, I have OS 10.5.5, and QuickTime 7.5.5. I tested this issue
with Encore CS3 and CS4. The export worked just fine on CS4, but again
failed on CS3. I spoke with Adam, and a few others around, and were not
quite sure why he was able to get this to work. I am 100% certain that
using the same workflow, his Mac is able to handle this process, but
none of the others I was able to try this on could. As far as I am
concerned, his ability to perform this export is a fluke, and cannot be
reproduced through known methods.
However, the issue is resolved in the CS4 release, so you should be all
set to do your flash exports once you get your upgrade.
I hope this information helps to resolve your issue. If you require
further assistance with this issue, please update your web case with
complete details, including what steps you have applied and any error
messages you are receiving.
You may also call Technical Support at (800) 642-3623. We are available
from 6:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday - Friday, Pacific Time.
Kind regards,
Joshua E.
Adobe Web Support"
Now let me post my response:
"Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:40:06 PM PDT
Joshua E.,
Thank you for your clear response to the issue of not being able to Build to Flash using Encore CS3. I can confirm the 100% accuracy
of everything you have said by adding my own experiences of the last 48 hours with Adobe Production Premium CS3 and CS4.
Two days ago I purchased the new Macbook Pro (Intel 2.53 GHz, 4 GB RAM). Immediately after setting up the Macbook Pro and getting i
t operating, I installed Adobe Production Premium CS3 (and all updates to CS3 Production Premium) on this brand new Macbook Pro. No
other software outside of the Mac OS 10.5.5 (and all updates to it) had been installed on this Macbook Pro. I then opened Premiere
CS3, placed 10 seconds of bars and tone in the timeline, and directly exported this to Encore CS3. I then selected Build To Flash.
Once again Encore CS3 froze at the "transcoding video" step and would not progress beyond 20%. This is the exact same behavior I
had on my Mac Pro 8-core machine and reported in this thread.
I then installed Adobe Production Premium CS4 on my Mac Pro 8-core. I followed the above step with the exception that apparently di
rect export from Premiere Pro CS4 to Encore CS4 is no longer available. I simple exported the Premiere Pro 10 second timeline to a
Quicktime .mov file using the Export>Media command in Premiere Pro CS4. I then took this .mov file into Encore CS4 and without bui
lding any menus, selected Build To Flash. The Build to Flash occurred perfectly with no problems at the "transcoding video" step or
any other step.
Needless to say, I am very pleased to see that Adobe has corrected the problems with Build to Flash in CS4 on a Mac. However, this
problem had been well reported in numerous forums (including the Adobe Encore Forum) on the web as far back as six months ago, and
I am saddened to see that Adobe did not feel it was worth the effort to repair the issue with Build To Flash in CS3 on a Mac that w
as apparently caused by an upgrade to Quicktime that Apple released sometime after Quicktime 7.3.1. I cannot expect Apple to addres
s issues with Adobe software caused by their Quicktime upgrades. I do, however, expect Adobe to see that their software runs on the
latest editions of both Mac OS X and Quicktime. Otherwise, as happened with Encore CS3 and Build to Flash on a Mac, the customer bu
ys the software expecting it to work and it does not. We are in a tough economy now. I need the software from Adobe that supports
my media production company to work, and I don't need Apple and Adobe pointing the finger at each other when it does not. I hope th
at you will pass this message along to senior Adobe management.
I do thank you for telling me your observations on Build To Flash with a Mac under Encore CS3.
Tom

Footage & Menu dimensions don't match on Flash Export (Encore CS4)

Here's the basic layout of the project:
A timeline is first play, leads to a motion menu. That motion menu links to other motion menus with Transition clips set.
All footage and menus are NTSC 4:3 (720x480, 0.91 PAR). Going out to Flash in 640x480 Medium preset.
My problem is as follows:
All of my footage (Timelines and Transitions) is displayed at 640x480 (correct). But my motion menus display at 640x468 (so there is minor black letterboxing). The jump is quite noticeable in the transitions, since they are just an animation of the menu elements.
When I go out to DVD I have no problems, everything lines up nicely.
Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
I have a hunch it might be something like Encore is pre-rendering the motion menus at 648x480, which when downscaled to fit into the 640x480 flash window end up at 640x468. Sound plausible?

>I have a hunch it might be something like Encore is pre-rendering the motion menus at 648x480, which when downscaled to fit into the 640x480 flash window end up at 640x468. Sound plausible?
One way to test this (I think) would be to change the position of one of your menu layers, like a button object or a text object. That would force a re-render of the menu.
In order to avoid the long render times for a full project, do a Save As with your current project and give it a new name. Then delete all of the assets except maybe one timeline and one menu. Then force the menu re-render as above and see if export to Flash produces the same results.
I wish I had personal experience upon which to draw, but I don't export to Flash from Encore.

"the activex control for flash player could not be registered" - Solutions Roundup

I recently ran into this problem on my computer:
http://at32.s3.amazonaws.com/flash_install_problems2.jpg
I am a Flash developer (as in I write SWFs, I don't work for Adobe). and when I updated IE to 10.2, "the activex control for flash player could not be registered". Since I am a developer, I also have Firefox and Chrome installed, with Flash running without problems. For a long time now, Internet Explorer has used a different version (ActiveX) to the other browsers, which use plugins. I am a strong supporter of Flash, it's great to develop with and has a very wide feature set which is growing all the time, unlike fixed technologies/standards. However, the weakest part is the install process - I don't understand why their is a Download Manager. Google Chrome does it's best (so far) by managing the install/update process entirely in the background. Anyway, it was in my best interest to try and get to the bottom of this.
For the record, on the problem machine I have Windows 7 with IE8, but I have seen almost identical symptoms with IE9, Windows XP SP3, as well as various iterations of Flash Player (10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and even some final editions of version 9).
First I tried the standard support here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html
Basically, doing the manual uninstall and manual install of the latest version (without using the download manager, or have IE open). This did not work. I also tried the Microsoft "subinacl" program, together with "reset_fp10.bat". This didn't work either. However, you should try all of these things first before progressing further.
A quick note about people who had tried running the following at a command prompt: "secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose"
I didn't do this, because on investigating further it didn't seem to work with Windows 7, only Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 - though there was a few threads where this had fixed the problem for some users.
For my solution, it is recommended you use the manual uninstall / installers, so you should have them downloaded ready to use.
I then heard about problems with permissions in the registry with the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\shockwaveflash.shockwave
So I opened regedit.exe (start - run - typed "regedit.exe"), navigated to the key and sure enough, I couldn't open it - permission denied - even though I had an administrator account. If for some reason, you can access this key (and any subkeys), then it's likely the following fix will not resolve the problem.
I then done further diagnosis, by using Process Monitor to try and install Flash Player, and I got the following:
http://at32.s3.amazonaws.com/flash_install_problems.gif
This shows all the access denied errors the Flash Player install was experiencing when trying to write to the registry key. This confirmed that this was the problem. I only stress this because several people said it was unwise to tinker with the registry. Though this is common advice, this is the only known fix for this precise problem at present, since you need to manually adjust the permissions yourself. I don't know who is at fault here - Microsoft or Adobe - but let's just get Flash fixed...
The solution:
Firstly, you may want to backup your registry, or the exact key. I didn't do this so I've provided no instructions on how to, but it is recommended for the paranoid. Also make sure as much software is closed down as possible - browsers, IM software, any junk in your system tray. As way of example, I happened to have "BBC iPlayer" installed and running in the background which uses Adobe AIR and Flash Player, so I exited that too.
1) Open regedit (start - run - type "regedit.exe"). You may need to right click on it and select "Run As Administrator", but I didn't as my account was already administrator.
2) Navigate to the key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\shockwaveflash.shockwave
Click on it to confirm that you cannot access it (you will get an error) - if their are no problems - this probably isn't the cause of your issues.
3) Right click on it and click Permissions, and ignore any message that may pop up.
4) Under "Group or Usernames" click "Add". Type your account name name, or "Administrators" in the box, then "Check Names" to format it correctly, then Ok.
5) Now on the next screen click the checkbox to enable Full Control (this will also automatically enable "Read" permission too).
6) Click Advanced, then the "Owner" tab at the top. You will see that their is no "Current Owner". This is what we will now fix.
7) Click on your name to change the owner to (I went for Administrators). Also enable the checkbox entitled "Replace Owner on subcontainers and objects". Then click Ok. You will get an error message, which you can try clicking Retry to, but hit Cancel - this is not a problem.
8) Click Ok a couple of times and this part of your registry is now fixed.
9) Now it's a simple case of running the manual Flash uninstall program, then finally the manual Flash installer (for Active X - not the Firefox/Chrome plugin versions). To my surprise, after a couple of days looking into this - I finally had a solution and Flash in IE once more. If you are using Firefox too you may find Flash is no longer installed their (the uninstaller removed it). In this case just install via the Adobe site or try to watch a video on You Tube and you will be prompted or linked to the install.
Hope this provides a good round up of the possible solutions to this problem. Hopefully Microsoft or Adobe can find out what causes this issue in the first place so we don't have to go down this route for much longer. Chrome's implementation of Flash shows how effortlessly things can work!

They will stay on the screen. However, Process Monitor is only intended for advanced users. It is recommended that users try to navigate to the troublesome registry key using regedit, and see if they can access it or not without an error. This is far easier than trying to use Process Monitor, which is very complicated.
I used Process Monitor to confirm that it was just that key which was causing the problem, and not others. Process Monitor is not to be confused with the new Resource Monitor which is accessible via Task Manager in Windows 7 (and possibly Vista). If you must experiment (and Process Monitor is very useful for diagnosing many deep-level problems if you know what you're looking for) Process Monitor can be downloaded from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645
It replaces the older Sysinternals "FileMon" and "RegMon". For those interested in the technical side, I had to setup a number of filters to be able to get the results display as in the screenshot. First of all to just show Registry events. Then to just show events from the manual Flash activeX installer executable. The I added a filter to show only non-successfull results. And finally, for the purposes of the screenshot, added a filter to just show those with "Access Denied", since other non-critical errors are also picked up due to missing keys because installation has not yet been fully completed I guess. When experimenting, most of these filters were applied using the "is not" boolean logic, which will make sense if you experiment with the program.
Without adding any filters, it picks up so many events (hundreds per second) that it's otherwise unusable. e.g. 40,000 events within the first few seconds of opening the program. For this reason, I recommend simply using Regedit to diagnose the problem with the particular Flash registry key.

MP4 Progressive through flash quit playing...HELP please

This has baffled me to know end. A few days ago my computer lost the ability to play any progressively downloaded .MP4 video through flash on the web. I have a whole site of videos that quit working for me. I can view videos encoded as .flv or .wmv on site like vimeo or youtube but if it is .mp4 extention the video just spins and never plays. I need to find a solution to this ASAP so if any one has any insight, I would be forever greatful! MP4s play fine locally on my machine or even through a direct link, just not through a progressive-dl flash player on the web.
I'm on a XP-64 machine with CS3 suites and quicktime installed.
Things I have tried.
-Restarting
-Uninstalling and reinstalling Flash
-Searching google for similar problems.

Could you take a look at the following FAQ to see if any of the workarounds help you? It also contains details on the information you'll need to provide to us so we can investigate further.
How do I troubleshoot and report problems with Flash Player Video?

Importing Video for flash player 7

Hi, im importing video for use on flash player 7. before
importing i note that the audio and video quality is perfect.
however after importing i notice the audio quality is not as good.
i need to import with the audio embedded with the video in the
timeline. i notice there are several audio settings (kbps) but im
not sure which is best. and of course i select high quality for
flash player 7.
any ideas to get rid of the lisp that is added to the
person's voice on import?
thanks!

What all browser did you check your output on? Can you also check on a different machine, playing it locally.
Can you try and set your CPLIBS files to the latest files available in the patch--
Please try the patch available here -- incase you have not till now-- http://forums.adobe.com/message/4623434
Let me know if this works?
Thanks,
Anjaneai

Compressing for flash video setting

Anyone out there building content for flash video? I have a client who is shooting all their footage on a sony HD cam. All footage comes to me as 1080i60. They have requested all content be converted or embedded into flash at a 400X300 canvas size.
I have tried some differant setting but most comes up somewhat pixilated. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Ron Nava

Maybe this is helpful: Flash 8 Pro comes with a Flash 8 Video Encoder. It automatically converts Quicktime files into a .flv flash video file WITH a .swf AND a playback skin.
The cool thing about this is how Flash then plays this back as a "progressive download," therefore less waiting time for it to start playback and smoother playback and very nice quality.
I have a sample of this at size 540x400, larger than I have made in the past with other programs, just to see how it would look. I'm still playing with the dimensions. Thinking of making it smaller, actually; but the quality really holds up, I thought. http://web.mac.com/bfkproductions/HomeOne/PowWowSample.html

Export movie from Premiere for import into Encore

I created an animation in 3D Studio MAX and rendered it to sequential stills for compositing in Premiere Pro 1.5. I want to export it out so it's ready for inport into Encore 2.0. I understand that Encore compresses it to MPEG-2 format while it is building the DVD. What is the best CODEC to use exporting it OUT of Premiere to get the best quality out of Encore DVD? Do I use Adobe Media Encoder or would AVI or QT give me better quality once Encore crunches it since AVI and QT are not as compressed as MPG? If AVI or QT is better, which CODEC works best Sorenson 3, Cinepak, Indeo...? Does Encore 2.0 offer VBR 2 pass?
Also, This DVD will be primarily played off of a PC so is "Progressive" the default out of Encore or is "Interlaced" From what I read, progressive is for computers and Interlace is for TV. Is that correct?
I've been reading some of the Adobe Primers on Encoding video, wow that stuff is deep...... Some what little to deep and a little too confusing.
Thanks for your words of wisdom,
Kenn Macintosh

Personally, I would export as a movie, using the MS DV-AVI type of export. Set the Audio to PCM 16/48, unless you have bought the SurCode Dolby Digital encoder.
When you import this into Encore, it will give you much better control over where you place chapter points and additionally Encore will - if you let it - use automatic transcoding for the final MPEG-2 compresssion.
The reason I suggest this is because MPEG-2 encoding is every much an art form as the filming, editing & cutting process and major studios employ people who do nothing other than encoding. It is
i unbelievably
easy to create an MPEG-2 stream that is not DVD-Video compliant.
Don't use progressive, stick to interlaced.
Progressive scan modes open up whole cans of worms.....
Good Luck.

Will there ever be patches for Flash 8?

I just wondered if Adobe intends to issue patches for Flash 8
instead of just Flashplayer. I reported bugs over a year ago that
were taken up as existing and have not heard a word since. Does
anyone know what is happening?
Brian

Walter,
thanks for the reply. Yes - truly irritating!
Although some can't be classified as true "bugs" but are
clearly usability issues.
I can add to that list with a few of my own - i will pick
one:
Properties Panel, the field that displays the frame number of
a nested animation in a Graphic
symbol. It is only wide enough to show 2 digits, so any
nested animations 100 frames or longer will
not show the entire number of frames - very annoying when you
spend a lot of time typing in frame
numbers to control graphic symbols and nested animations.
I have included the items from your list that are not already
on mine and will do what i can to see
that the next version of flash solves some of these issues.
And yes - not having the ability to export movie clips and
effects to video format is the biggest
bummer for flash 8 - i knew it during the BETA and know it
all too well now. But I haven't regarded
it as a total loss - i choose to find work-arounds and
thankfully www.flashants.com has a tool
called SWF2Video - it has saved me on many flash to video
projects that included graphics that had
to have bitmap filtered effects.
anyway - i appreciate your reply and if you have anymore
gripes - send em my way please.
-chris
--> **Adobe Certified Expert**
--> www.mudbubble.com
--> www.keyframer.com
Walter Elias wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
>
> What is it about Flash 8 that is not working for you?
You haven't mentioned it
> yet I don't think.
>
> ******************************************
>
>
> 1)
> I use Flash heavily to produce television animation. I
use a TV-safe color
> pallette which has several hundred colors. Now try this:
add some colors to
> your Flash color pallette. Bring it to more than 100
colors. Then try selecting
> a new color in the Color Mixer or clicking the color
swatch on the Tools panel.
> Guess what? The swatches go off the screen. There is no
way to access any
> swatches other than the lower 60 or so. You can't resize
or drag that pallette
> window. This was untrue in earlier versions of Flash. I
can't tell you how
> badly this slows down work for me and all my fellow
animators. The
> ex-macromedia tech people told me they flagged this as a
"critical" issue.
> Seems to me it would be simple to revert to the earlier
methods of handling the
> swatch windows and release a patch.
>
> 2) Apply timeline ActionScript to an object. Then on a
later frame put a mask
> on the timeline and apply it to that object. The
ActionScript controlling the
> object stops working. Same in reverse: if there's a mask
that is removed, the
> timeline AS stops working. Workaround: repeat the Action
Script at every frame
> where a mask starts and stops. This was also a bug in
Flash 7. Macromedia tech
> support worked with me for several weeks on this, and
finally rated this to be
> a "critical bug".
>
> 3) Put any movie clip on the timeline. Do not give it an
instance name. Add a
> keyframe later in the movie. On that later keyframe,
give the movie clip an
> instance name. Then put some ActionScript on the
timeline that refers to that
> movie clip's instance name. It won't work. You have to
go back and apply the
> same instance name to every instance of that movie clip
anywhere on the
> timeline, even before the AS appears. Otherwise it won't
work. Can you imagine
> the agony of having produced a complex animation with
hundreds of keyframes,
> only to later decide to apply a script to several movie
clips. You have to go
> back and apply instance names to every one of the
hundreds of previous
> instances of those movie clips, or the script won't
work.
>
> Is that enough? Shall I continue with all the irritating
little user interface
> bugs? Such as the Controller window, which you used to
be able to tuck away
> beneath the Tools pallette, without sacrificing screen
real estate. But now it
> can only appear above the timeline, which means you have
to sacrifice a bit on
> the size of the stage. When doing animation, every pixel
of viewable area is
> important!
>
> I could go on and on. Most of the bugs I found are
simple to fix, since most
> of them were not bugs in Flash 7!
>
> To be very honest, even though I'm a designer and
animator, I find the
> 'graphic enhancements' in Flash 8, like the filters, to
be mostly useless. If
> my clients didn't require that I use Flash 8 so that I
can send files back and
> forth with them, I'd do like a huge number of animators
I know and go back to
> Flash MX (version 6), the last stable, elegant and truly
user-friendly version
> of Flash.
>

Typing style effect for Flash 8 mac

I have flash 8 on a g5 mac.
I'm looking for something that will give me a typing or
old-style computer terminal effect for text on a page I'm building.
I'd rather not to all of it by hand with masks if I can avoid it.
I payed for and downloaded Red Giants "Text FX" program,
which does do this. But then I found out it doesn't support Flash 8
on the mac... Bummer.
Anyone know of another good add-on for Flash 8 on the mac
that will do this effect for me?

Shannon Duncan wrote:
> I have flash 8 on a g5 mac.
>
> I'm looking for something that will give me a typing or
old-style computer
> terminal effect for text on a page I'm building. I'd
rather not to all of it
> by hand with masks if I can avoid it.
>
> I payed for and downloaded Red Giants "Text FX" program,
which does do this.
> But then I found out it doesn't support Flash 8 on the
mac... Bummer.
>
> Anyone know of another good add-on for Flash 8 on the
mac that will do this
> effect for me?
Make a text field, dynamic with multiple lines, give it
Instance name "mytext"
than paste it on timeline frame, pretty much it.
TextField.prototype.typer = function(str, ms) {
var me = this;
var i = 0;
var itv = setInterval(function () {
me.text = str.substring(0, i);
i++;
if (i>str.length) {
clearInterval(itv);
updateAfterEvent();}, ms);
mystring = "Morbi risus. Cras iaculis neque et lectus auctor
vehicula. Etiam aliquet mi nec lectus.
Mauris pharetra, ligula nec mattis blandit, dolor enim
placerat augue, sit amet cursus magna lectus
a neque. Mauris mauris erat, congue sed, malesuada sit amet,
malesuada sollicitudin, elit. Sed in
odio ut sem condimentum lacinia. Curabitur pellentesque
blandit nisl. Mauris vel dui. Vivamus velit.";
mytext.typer(mystring, 50);
Best Regards
Urami
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

Can I publish a SWF for flash player 9

Is there a way to publish a SWF file that works in older versions of flash player in Catalyst CS5 or do they have to be published in the latest flash player?

Flash Catalyst projects use Flex 4, which in turn requires Flash Player 10. Among other things, Catalyst relies on FP 10 features to render text that accurately matches your original imported comps, and to support the "rotate 3D" effects available in the timeline.
For general web deployment, this requirement shouldn't be a major obstacle: Flash Player 10 is on 95%+ of Internet-connected computers in most markets (and probably 75%+ of enterprise desktops). Of course circumstances vary, so I apologize if you're stuck due to working in an environment where FP 10 isn't available yet. In these cases, while you'll have to write your final app in a different technology like Flex 3, we hope you'll still find Catalyst to be a valuable rapid-prototyping tool during earlier stages of production.
- Peter

Something similar to lightbox for flash?

Hi all,
I'm searching something similar to the lightbox effect in javascript, but for flash.
I already tried succesfully "flash lightbox v2" (http://blog.alancurtis.it/tag/flash/) but I'm searching something native for flash, without javascript.
Is there something usefull around?
TIA
tony

Lightbox like functionality in Flash is very basic and native to it. It is as simple as creating a displayobject, putting images on its display list and creating some transition effect with tween engine. But this requires knowledge of ActionScript.
You can also do this these things on timeline manually.
Because it is so basic, you, perhaps will not find any tutorials. Even beginner's level of Flash skills enables one to develop this kind of functionality.

Available HTTP delivery options for Flash Access encrypted content

Dear colleagues,
Could you please clarify available HTTP delivery options for Flash Access encrypted content.
Standard HTTP DS scheme with Apache web server getting chunks of video from segmented with f4fpackager file.
HTTP Progressive Download of encrypted with Flash Access file (non segmented).
Is it possible to use byte range delivery in this case in order to start playback from custom position (seek)?
Are there any pitfalls in this case? Is it required to make encryption blocks aligned with keyframe intervals or something like that?

Thanks for your response, seems though that only the encrypted videos appear to have a problem because when I tried some un-encrypted videos (again from adobe http://drmtest.adobe.com/content/unencrypted/Indesign.f4v ) it played fine.
Maybe is has something to do with the decryption process and the hardware of the mobile phone after all.
Again thanks for your response.

Timeline progress for Flash in Encore

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for