converting video to swf?

[Sunny G]

Hey all you flash-savy people out there! I have a question, for you!

There's a chance that I may be the webmaster for my school's library next year, and for it's webpage, I had the idea of putting in video tutorials of how to use the technology in the labs, in flash format. Is flash capable of converting video into swf? If so, which format does the video have to be in?
AVI? MPG?

Thanks!

[DaveSW]

Do you mean embedding an avi etc or creating an flv, flash video file?
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/video.html

[Frets]

May just mean converting a vid format to swf.

In that case there are several programs which do just that convert
various formats to swf and flv. the thing about flv most don't realize
beyond all the hype is that you need either a flash comm server or flashmx
2004 to play flv's

swf streaming video works perfectly fine doesn't require a container movie made
with flash MX 2004 or flash comm server. And thru a series of recent testing I've been doing my studies concude swf streaming video beats flv in many other ways.

getting thru the conversion
There are several products that convert vid formats to swf. Not all of these programs handle all formats. Swish video handles Most common vid formats (avi, mpeg, mov, wmv) It also comes with various preset player controls and allows variables from the vid.swf to container swf.

[Frets]

add on swishvideo2 (still in beta allows batch conversion)

[Sunny G]

I just want to change the video into swf format to be played on a webpage. I don't want to stream video or anything fancy like that. I just want to know if it can be done.

[Frets]

It can be done. Trust me you would want to stream it.
When files are streamed they play as they load. If they aren't streamed
they have to fully load before they can play. video files even a few seconds long
can add up to megabytes.

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&tab=overview&product=video
take the 15 day trial.

[Sunny G]

Soooooooooooooo.... If I streamed the video, if someone who logged onto the webpage that had the video, in the middle of when it was playing, would they see it from the start of the file, or in the middle of it? Is streaming flash a a seperate service the server has to run, or is it as simple as downloading a picture, like:
IMG SRC="picture.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="0"
(And hello to the guest reading this thread)

[DaveSW]

VideoSpark have an alternate flv method that doesn't require a flash comm server.
http://www.videospark.com/index.php?ssp=20

And streaming is seperate for each user - it is individually served, and it starts at the beginning for every visitor.

[Sunny G]

Hey cool! Thanks!
I'll remember that!

[BeachSide]

You could do it the really really hard way...


In Flash click on 'File'(the top menus) and in the drop down select 'Import to Library'. Then make a movie clip and do the complicated task of dragging and dropping into the movie clip container.

Then you can make controls like a movie player (or even better yet there are snippets for this find them and d/l them) you can also add a bit of code with which you can preload the upcoming videos and/or start playing them after a certain percentage of the movie has loaded.

My opinion is why use third party stuff when you can use the program for it is designed for.

[Frets]

Reads like the hard way if there are a great deal of vid files to convert
many vid to swf convertors have batch capabilites.

[HerHeinz]

The conversion wouldn't take much time if you have a special program for that! There is one called Video to Flash Converter. It can do the job for you!
It's here: http://www.geovid.com/Video_to_Flash_Converter/

[mtgentry]

After Effects 6.5 lets you export to .flv or .swf. You just need to download a free plugin from macromedia.com

More about it here:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/flv_exporter_03.html

[Bee]

I just want to change the video into swf format to be played on a webpage. I don't want to stream video or anything fancy like that. I just want to know if it can be done.

aha!It can be done with Video to Flash Converter 3.8. use google to find it.

[DaveSW]

Or read the earlier post by HerHeinz...

[LJK]

Hi -
I gotta second BeachSide on this one.
Don't imagine this is going to be strictly a site focused on the videos, so
batch work won't matter as much. When importing the .avi into Flash, go to the Advanced editing options and you can crop, cut and make new clips [or join them together], or even tweak color or gamma, etc. Name it what you want for going into the Library.

Then have it placed into a movie clip t-line, [and say yes when asked if more frames should be added] this way, you have total control of it from your main movie timeline. And if you don't want to get too heavily into Action Script or the Movie Clip Loader class, then just make a couple of buttons.

Put them in the same t-line as the video, but on a separate layer w/ actions:
onPress{
this.play();
}
//for your play_btn and
onPress{
this.stop();
}
//for stop_btn instance.

Even though normally you'd think that 'this' would refer to the main t-line and stop the whole movie, it should only affect the t-line that it's on - so, the video m.clip. [Please, correct me if wrong, here = newb.]

Just be sure to drag an instance of this m. clip [video_mc] into the main t-line, with buttons n' all.

Good luck - and let us know how it turns out,
El

[Sunny G]

Uhm...... I said there was a chance I could be webmaster. Furthermore, where I could be webmaster does not have flash. It was just a hypothetical question. Thanks though!

[Bee]

Oops :rolleyes:

[Duck11]

Ona of such converters is Video to Flash Converter (http://geovid.com/Video_to_Flash_Converter/) By Geovid. It converts AVI, MOV, MPEG,ASF to SWF/FLV without any quality lossless.

[Jack O'Connell]

http://www.kibisis.com/kibisis/index.asp

[suddenly]

for more information follow
http://www.geovid.com/Video%20to%20Flash%20Conversion

[nuka cola]

by da way, geovid provide a discount of 20% for teachers! :p
so 59.95$ will be 47.96. Its worth!

[suddenly]

and for students also.
i'm a student and they made a discount for me.

[gooogle]

More flash video software on http://www.flash-video-mx.com

[Deseo]

and i can advice to you FlashConv-i found it not long ago, and want to recommend it to you.look it up

[webrobbie]

you could chk this out.
http://www.eltima.com/products/screenshots/swf-video-converter/