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Sending Clients Flash Videos
Is anyone sending clients Flash videos instead of QT/WM? I know how to create an FLV & SWF, and how to manually embed it into a blank html file. But is there any simple way to do all this automatically?
I’m also having trouble finding player skins that look good. The ones that come with Adobe Flash CS3 are terrible. Thanks for any tips.
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Sean,
There’s a cool little app that makes self-contained SWF files with players, Video2SWF. At verticalmoon.com.
Also, I understand Encore encodes Flash movies, I just bought it for that reason.
Have a wonderful day.
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I sometimes use the website drop.io – the quality is not good, but its fast and free.
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Thanks guys. I just found On2 Flix Pro Exporter. Installing the demo now. I think it’s exactly what I was looking for.
Sean
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Sean,
Flix Exporter is nice because its integrated with FCP, Compressor, and QT, but it does not create SWFs with player controls. Flix Pro, their standalone Flash encoder is not integrated, but it has 20 or so different player controls, the simplist one being the best, that can be built-in into your SWF file. I have Flix Pro and I think having the ability to put the controls in outweighs the integration with the FCS.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[David Roth Weiss] “I have Flix Pro and I think having the ability to put the controls in outweighs the integration with the FCS.”
Agreed David and it can still batch encode so no need for compressor support.
David have you tested the fade in and fade out on the editing controls?
I tried it the other day and it does not seem to work.
no fading at all even though I tried 20 frames or 100. -
[Chris Borjis] “David have you tested the fade in and fade out on the editing controls?”
Nope, that’s one of those convenient add ons I haven’t tried. I’d rather leave to FCP I think…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Thanks, I’m trying that out too.
Sean
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I have Flix Standard and love the quality, but SWF files are limited to about 7 minutes. Is that the case with the Pro version as well?
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FYI, Current versions of the Flash Player support H264. You don’t need to encode to the old FLV format. You can encode once to that and support many different players. (This is how the new “high quality” YouTube videos are handled.)
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[Joseph Moore] “Current versions of the Flash Player support H264. “
How does that work? Does the client still need QT installed?
Sean
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