RE: FLASH: QT *within* Flash - test pls

[Wayne Townsend]

Re: http://accesson.absolute.net/emailad


Thx Robert, Dino, Michael, MR, & Christophe,


>plays fine it does repeat itself several times halve way through.


Not sure I understand what you mean by repeating half way through?


>Did you use images or actually embed the video file?


Images.


>loads quick, visually it is kinda jerky

and leaves "tracers" after fast movements


That's because I pulled out half of the frames for this version 

because I wanted to keep the size down.  Note, that's why the file is 

smaller than the original QT.  You could say that this is an *on 

demand* version.  File size is reasonable I think for a 30 sec full 

motion bitmap image spot.


I'm working on a second version now, which will have the same number 

of frames as the original QT, and I'll bump it the jpeg quality from 

it's current 50 setting and see what I wind up with.  In this 

version, the ads are loading in the background while the user is busy 

with the site.  They are not waiting for them, so there is no waiting 

perception at all.  So I don't care if the file is a meg or more 

even.  When I finish this full-on version, I'll put it up at:

http://accesson.absolute.net/emailad2


>do tell your method!


I originally started doing these last year in Flash 3 (I was doing 

Flash QTVR's btw), and it was far more difficult then. With flash 4 

it's easy.


Make the movie size the same as the qt mov.  Usually 240 x 180.  Set 

it at 12fps. (but you can play with it)


1. import a QT movie on a layer.  Extend the frames out as far as 

necessary.  Scrub through and delete any frames after the end of the 

movie.  Note, the movie will "play" but will not in test movie.


2. Export the movie as picts (better have some disk space!)


3. Delete the QT movie.


4   Open your main site fla file. Create a layer and Import the 

picts.  Flash will say it looks like these are sequential images and 

ask if you want to import them all each on a keyframe. (god bless you 

MM!)   Say yes.


5. Voila.


6.  Extract the soundtrack from the QT movie using whatever sound 

editor you have that does this.  Save it as a wav or aiff.  I use 

Soundedit 16.


7. Create another layer for the soundtrack. and import it at the 

beginning of the movie.  Set the sync to "stream"


8. scrub through the movie, and delete any keyframes where there is 

no movement in the movie to reduce the filesize.


Now you can test movie.


That all there is to it folks.


Advantages - full control of a qt movie, and all within your flash 

movie.  Of course you can do these as load movies as well.


Watch out banner ads!  FlashQT's are *real* ads!  Like TV.   And 

their shaped like a tv screen.


1001 uses!  :)  No fuss, no muss.


Try it, it's fun!


/wayne


Joe Wayne Townsend

waynetabsolute [dot] net

accesson.net

WebStaffing.Net

http://accessON.absolute.net



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