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Producing Flash Videos
Hello,
We have just upgraded our AE to v.CS3. Part of the reason for doing so is to produce Flash videos to upload onto our website.
Just have one problem though: once I’ve rendered a comp to an FLV file, what do I do next?
All those videos one sees on YouTube, how are they produced?
I also understand that I may need to import my flv into Flash to then output the definitive finished video. Is this right?
I would be most grateful for any help on this cos we’re stuck!!
Thanks very much in advance.
Sanjay Chalisey
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5 Replies
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An .flv must be embedded in a web page.
Ultimately these are the files that must be posted:
-An html page that holds the .swf file
-A .swf file that holds the .flv
-The .flv video file itself
-A small java file that needs to go in the same directory (this is automatically created when you invoke the publish command in Flash.If you have Flash then you set your publish options to include an HTML page. Ultimately this will produce an .html page.
It’s very late and I’m brain-dead. I hope that helps.
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Thanks very much – will try this now!
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Sanjay, if you’re looking to post FLV files to your website for clients to approve and such, you might want to check out Media Batch. It’s an entire media deployment/approval system that lives on your website, but one of the cool thing is its FLV Viewer. It’s completely timecode based and as such you can add marker points to the timeline in realtime. From there, you can add notes to each marker point or even draw on the video image itself for each marker point. It’s quite powerful but as mentioned is only one portion of the whole package.
The nice thing is you’d encode your FLV out of AE, upload it to your server and Media Batch does the rest. No coding or anything.
Hope this helps!
Marco Solorio
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Dreamweaver will generate the HTML and SWF for you too, if you happen to have it.
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Thanks everybody.
Well, I upgraded to Flash CS3 today and attempted to produce content shown on the tutorial DVD.
All appeared to be fairly straightforward, but when I tried to test the finished swf file, it plays for the first two seconds and then just freezes! Attempted to do the same with another video (all captured as Quicktime Blackmagic 10-bit files from FCP and then converted using the Flash Video CS3 encoder), but the same thing occurs.
I have ensured that my frame rate matches, but other than that don’t know what I should be looking out for?
Thanks for the tip on mediabatch, I will check this out as well.
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