I'm working on a Mac. I have Quicktime Pro. I just downloaded the latest FLV exporter. I'm trying to export an MPEG4 to FLV. I can only do it with it set to Screen Recording Codec, which gives me a 72 meg file. When I try Baseline, better, or best, it starts to exports but fails every time. I ...more >>

just incase your listening could you have an "aply alpha" option for masking in the nexted version, so that the transparency of a pixel can aply to the mask, it woud realy open up new design posibilities ...more >>

I was asked to make a flash file that would list cancer patients who have died at a team relay this Friday. What they want me to do is take thier list and have it roll like the credits at the end of a movie. I know how to do this with after effects but that would take 25 years to render not to...more >>

Greetings, ? I would like to introduce our new technology offering to developers who are interested in Beta testing our new player and encoder. We are looking for developers who would assist us with testing, documentation, feedback, ideas, identifying bugs and possible issues, etc. The fi...more >>

Hi, Still new to this so I my be setting this up the wrong way. I'm loading an exteral movie (1.jpg) into a movie clip (image1), then nesting it inside another clip (ref1) where it plays for 50 frames, then fades out (alpha100-0) from frame 51-75. This is not working for me and I'm hoping ...more >>

hi i am attaching movie clips to the main time line (some by script and some by hand) i have one mc (clouds_mc) that i want him to be the deeper , i mean : in the lowest level , how can i assure that ? at the attachMovieClip i am using getNewDepth() method thanks ...more >>

so i've downloaded the flash trial (3 times now) and every time i try to extract it "Flash Installer_a.exe" is corrupt. aall the other files extract - what gives? any help appriciated :-) thanks graeme ...more >>

I've got a Flash movie that I realized was too big when I finished it. It needs to be reduced to about 80% of its current size. It's mostly made up of bitmaps that get jagged-looking when scaled down. So what I did was use the "edit multiple frames" tool, onion skinned the entire movie, hit Ct...more >>

I'm trying to convert an area into an invisible button, which, when clicked, will take me to another page. I tried converting a graphic into a button, but all the actions are greyed out. Any suggestions? ...more >>

I have a simple movie clip the first frame have a button and a stop action. The Sec frame has buttons to that are links to htmls pages. The problem I have to update the flash file to update the bitton links. But the flash file is cache. Is there a code that I can add to prevent the flash file...more >>

Could anyone point me to a tutorial on allowing a user to dynamically draw a textbox on the stage and then enter text? Thanks! SW ...more >>

Hi, i have re-designed my illustration portfolio site and was wondering what you all thought. For those of you that remember the old site, the menu has been re-made so that it is easier to find. Any feedback would be much appreciated. Cheers, Klaye Morrison :: http://members.westnet.co...more >>

Okay, I have a very basic flash movie on my site. www.kassabkomputer.com. Now, when the different lines of text come in, they are all a set of tweens that exist on the main timeline. My question is, Would it be more effiecient (ie: smaller file, quicker load) if I converted each set of text...more >>

Hi: I have a bizarre problem where my flash either creates a classic (os 9) projector instead of an os x projector. I do have a need to create both, but the application default is to create a classic projector and i cannot find a way to choose which one I want to create. The kicker is that...more >>

Hi, I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right place but... We have upgraded from McAfee 7 Enterprise to McAfee 8 Enterprise. Since this upgrade, Flash will not load and crashes out on the welcome screen. Stopping every service on McAfee 8 doesn't stop the problems and it seems the sheer ...more >>

Dear all, I wondered if it is possible to create Flash "archives" that contain multiple files to be loaded in by Flash? A similar thing would be the JARs in Java, although I would like to include content files such as graphics and XML instead of code. I have a site containing a numbe...more >>

Hi all, i'm developing a flash web-site for a client, and they like to know how many hits/visits they have had on their site. They have been able to do this for their old site using a hitcounter on the site, and using the stats page provided by the provider, but i want to track details from w...more >>

Using an ASP/VBscript server model I need to detect the screen resolution of the website visitor and then either show flash movie one or flash movie two... does anyone have a solution to this, as I've tried numerous variations all with no success... Steve ...more >>

I want to create a transparent desktop animation that will over lay all open windows, be transparent, and move across the screen. Can this be done in flash? I have used simpletoon in the past, but it appears that they have gone out of business. If flash cannot do this, do you know of any other...more >>

Hi, Are there anyone here who could please explain to me exactly how publish works? When you read about it in HELP it is written as if one has to have both a ..swf file and a .html file on your domaine before the browser is able to read/show it. I however have some Flash (.fla) fi...more >>

im trying to create a navigation trying to use the onEnterFrame but im having no luck piecing the script together, anybody got any ideas???...more >>

I'm developping an on-line game. For low budget reasons all I can afford is a MySQL database with PHP scripts on remote server. I can squeeze out of it all I need on data level, but I know nothing about connecting. Will that be enough? Do I need other server side software (which I cannot insta...more >>

I am kinda wanting to make a game using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional. I was wondering if it is possible to make an interactive multiplayer game using it. If not, that is fine. But I still want to make a game. A full blown RPG with everything good in it. Problem is, I suck at acti...more >>

Hello. Could some one please help me. This is what happened. First i import a picture(bitmap) to libary. Then i make a new layer. Next i make a shape out of lines i draw. It is enclosed. The problem is i can't fill it. When i try it does nothing. Can someone help me? ...more >>

If you look at this link http://www.nowonmedia.ca/hello.html Soupdogg...more >>

I have created a flash that is quite involved, and have now realized that it is to big for the website. When I resize it in dreamweaver, it becomes fuzzy and low res. I also tried selecting everything in flash and scaling it, but there are always some things left unselected. Is there an easie...more >>

This has got me stumped. I am trying to do a simple "stop" and "play" using a PAUSE button for my movie. I am unable to find any information on how to create this. I did create a simple button, and it works if you "press" the button to freeze it then "release' it to play again. But I need a bu...more >>

I might have to take an English Flash movie and translate it into Japanese. Anyone know how you do this? Can the English version handle it if you have the right fonts on your development machine? Or, do you need to buy the localized version? Thanks. ...more >>

i'm a flash developer and i have some knowledge that i would like to share with macromedia members. does somebody know how i can submit and article to macromedia? thanks Raphael Saldanha raphaelsaldanha@gmail.com ...more >>

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In my Flash file I have imported a video file - I've tried a variety of files - and I'm getting the same results with all of them. My video looks very pixelated. When I view the original file outside of Flash, it looks GREAT! So, I'm not sure what the problem is. I've even checked to see t...more >>

Good evening from London. I have created my first XML file but I can't display it in Flash. I don't want to do anything fancy - just get something to display. Here's my 4 lines of code: var objText = new XML(); objText.ignoreWhite = true; objText.load("module1.xml"); varDisplay...more >>

I'm working on something to be distributed as a Projector on a CD. I was publishing a test and noticed some strange behavior. In the testing environment my swf plays fine. Embedded in the HTML page my swf plays fine. Dragged into a brower window my swf plays fine. If I open the swf outsi...more >>

Hi all I have a PDF that I'm linking to from a swf. The action is simple: on(release){ getURL("/url/myPDF.pdf", "_blank"); } The problem is that the "_blank" action is being ignored. So the PDF opens in the browser window that the Flash is in. I want this PDF to open in a...more >>

I am torn between using Quicktime video file formats in Flash versus Flash Video. I am building a site that I want users to be able to upload there videos directly to the server and ready to play. Using quicktime I can do that, but using Flash Video the user would have to convert the file in t...more >>

Hello. I have a dynamic text field that is not created on the fly. I have it referencing a font I have on my system, but that others, quite understandably, do not. In researching past topics on this forum, I learned you could just add font outlines by clicking the Character button that app...more >>

As I understand, each timeline can only have one sound. My problem is that i have lots of sounds including a looping background sound and i want to fade them all when playing an externally linked FLV file. Unfortunatelly the flv sound inherits the sound volume i set for the background element...more >>

I'm looking for Flash components. Particularly, a portal with multiple, draggable, collapsible and resizable windows. I'd like to hand over the UI to programmers who could interface with it in a FLEX environment. I'd prefer to use Macromedia source, but I'm having trouble finding the componen...more >>

I'm just getting into flash for my job. We're trying to setup a pay for chat w/ video and audio through flash. Its running on asp pages, and we normally handle are billing and per minute charges through asp. Our concern is for those who would try to get around our system by just downloading th...more >>

I have forgotten how to open a htm page from a button in an intro.. I get it to work on the web with a link to http://www.mysite/test/index.htm but how can i link it to /index,htm? When I do it searches the web for a page thanks michael ...more >>

I seem to have a problem with my ActionScript. I will try to explain as best I can. Hopefully somebody could help me out. I'm loading an swf into an empty movie clip in another swf. I will call the swf in which I'm loading into "Main" and the one I am trying to load "Timeline" I can ...more >>

I keep trying to turn a graphic section of a JPG into a linkable button. I convert the area to a symbol (button) but all the action scripts are greyed out...therefore i cannot assign an action to the HIT area of the button... ...more >>

hi i need some help with a flash menu on the a site i'm making. The menu has a loader and a short intro animation in which the menu items fade in one after the other. The problem is that this intro animation and the "loading..." screen play everytime the user opens a new page featuring the...more >>

I have 10 movieclip buttons. When clicked I want them to stay on the over frame until the next button is clicked. Have any ideas?...more >>

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Have any of you had this problem: http://www.realtimeworks.org/hntbtest/flv.jsp I am using the standard component to load the FLV. The FLV came from Sorenson Squeeze. On 3 out of the 4 server locations I have tested, the FLV does not load entirely. However, on one server it playes fine (...more >>

Anyone know of a template or component for Flash that creates multiple content accordian windows? Ex: Laszlo Dashboard http://www.laszlosystems.com/partners/support/demos/...more >>

hi everyone. So I'm loading a swf into another swf and loading that into an html page. I got it to work no problem. At my company, I do the template design and content places the exact URLs in when they need it to point to a new presentation, well this problem came up and I was wondering w...more >>

Hi forum, I need to create swf files on the fly containing an audio sample. The audio sample must be contained withing the swf file and not downloading from an external server. Is there anny way to automate this on a server instead of handwork? Tanx! D. ...more >>

Dear Flashers, I am working on a RIA which needs to load a lot of massive contents swf in certain level, however, even i load those movies in the same level which should replace their movie, i still find the flashplayer went slower and slower when times goes by. and some case i have unload ...more >>