- HOW TO IMPORT VIDEO INTO MACROMEDIA MX 2004 HOW TO
- HOW TO IMPORT VIDEO INTO MACROMEDIA MX 2004 PROFESSIONAL
A more elegant solution is to use the incredibly versatile and powerful Media components that ship with Flash MX 2004 Professional. If that sounds like too much work, you're absolutely right. The direct way is by creating an instance of the Video class and then loading video into that object via instances of the NetConnection and NetStream classes.
HOW TO IMPORT VIDEO INTO MACROMEDIA MX 2004 HOW TO
For more information about this useful tool, visit After you have a usable FLV file, you need to know how to load it into Flash as well as how to control it and communicate with it. Sorenson Media's excellent application called Sorenson Squeeze was built for the purpose of creating FLV files from many video file formats. (For more information about importing and creating FLV files, consult your Flash documentation.) After installation, the Exporter allows you to export FLV files directly from your favorite video-editing application.
HOW TO IMPORT VIDEO INTO MACROMEDIA MX 2004 PROFESSIONAL
Fortunately, Flash MX 2004 Professional ships with the Flash Video Exporter.
Although this is a sufficient means for creating FLV files, you may want to create, edit, and eventually export a video from your favorite video-editing application, such as Adobe Premiere. Flash has the built-in capability to import most video formats (including AVI and QuickTime), which can then be exported to the FLV format for use as an externally loaded clip. To use an external video clip in a Flash project, it must first be converted to the. The clip can play at a different frame rate than the SWF in which it's loaded, ensuring that the video clip always plays at the intended frame rate. The clip can be progressively downloaded as it plays, making it unnecessary for the entire clip to load before it can be viewed. The clip can be edited separately from the SWFs that use it. These tools make the process of using video in your applications much easier.Įxternal video clips have some great advantages over embedded clips: Not only does Flash MX 2004 not need Flash Communication Server when using external video, but it provides some excellent tools in the form of Media components. It was possible to embed video clips within the SWF, but this tended to make the file size rather large. The previous version of Flash (Flash MX) could load and play external video clips, but only with the assistance of Flash Communication Server.
Fortunately for us, so do Flash's capabilities for loading and playing video. With the growing popularity of broadband, the use of video in applications continues to escalate.