Import & Export...Really messed Up !!!

[mark4man]

Not sure what happened...

…but something’s gotten screwed up really bad w/ both my import AND export settings in Flash (running Flash MX Pro 2004). I was in the process of importing a .MOV movie (created in Sony Vegas Movie Studio (v8.0), to be exported as a .SWF (out of Flash…to be published to the web, in order to be displayed on our band's MySpace site).

I know my .MOV export out of Sony Vegas is OK, 'cause I can preview it in QuickTime; & it plays & looks great. But when I import it into Flash, I know something is wrong right away, 'cause the display window reads: "current selection cannot have actions applied to it". And when I hit the Play button...all that can be seen is a solid white screen...there's no content, no transitions...no nothing. If I go ahead & export as a .swf, all that get’s exported is a white screen…no movie.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks,

mark4man


BTW - The movie I'm working w/ is a dynamic photo montage, where I placed photographs of the band side by side by side; & then added transitions between the still images. The only reason I went back to redo the montage because it was too large in file size; which prohibits the loading of tables on our MySpace page, until the movie fully streams. I was looking for a way to decrease the file size coming out of Vegas; & then this happened. But...like I said...the .MOV out of Vegas plays & looks just fine.

Thanks,

MF

 

[monaco]

Sounds like Flash can't figure out how to decode the video data. Doesn't flash come with a straight to flash exporter? I know I can go from final cut pro straight to flv on my mac...

 

[mark4man]

monaco...

Thanks.

Doesn't flash come with a straight to flash exporter?

Not sure what you mean by this question. Please explain further.

Thanks again, man...

mark4man


BTW - How IS final cut pro, anyway?

 

[ihatebeans]

Final Cut Pro is amazing...
If you are going to use it.

Keep in mind it is quite expensive lol.
My brother goes to film school, so I have played around with it a bit. It is amazing imo.

 

[mark4man]

beans...

FCP isfor the Mac, man !!! I'm strictly a PC guy.

Thanks anyway,


MF

 

[mark4man]

OK...

Here's where I am w/ this...

Go to my band's myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/projectonejams

& if the video isn't working...if what you're seeing is an all white space (about half way down the Bio section)...& it stays that way after the amount of time it would take a 5 MB file to load...(& you of course have Flash Player installed on yer machine)...

...then the .MOV conversion to .SWF has now been screwed up by TWO programs...Flash AND Swish Max.

I now have no idea what to do to solve this problem...I create a .MOV file out of Sony Vegas Movie Studio...which then plays fine in the Quick Time player...& now this. [One thing I did notice was...the .MOV file was approximately 90 MB in size. The .SWF created by Flash was about 45 MB; & the .SWF created by Swish Max was about 5 MB. Swish Max has an option to bounce an html file along w/ the .SWF...but that doesn't change the file size. Weird...such a difference in size.]

Oy Vey.

MF