Video files in captivate

I am using video files (flv or smf-animation) in my captivate
projects - when I publish the project as a swf-file the videos are
not really integrated into the file but are delivered as an extra
file - I dont know how to change this - I like to have just one
swf-file with the video integrated - what can I do - in captivate
this works, but dont know what to do to make it work in captivate
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Hi MikelDent and welcome to our community
If the files are .FLV, I don't believe there is any way to
include them. But for the .SWF variety, I think it will be included
in the main .SWF if you choose to publish as version 6 Flash
format.
If you have Flash, you might be able to convert the .FLV to a
.SWF and include it that way. But I'm unsure as to how well it
would work.
Cheers... Rick

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quick fix so far on
> this one. We have used AVI Video Converter to save a swf
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> can place in to Captivate and it plays just fine in the
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> when we preview the movie, the video portion cannot be
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