flash (macromedia): When I import an MPEG video into Flash MX 2004 Pro, it works every time except
when I try to edit the video and create mulitiple clips. If I try to create
clips, it lets me go through the import process, right up to when I click
Finish. When I click Finish, it just goes back to the first Import Screen
(where it asks whether you want to import the whole video or edit it first). It
does not import the video at all. This seems like it is an obvious bug. I have
tried installing the Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 Video Update and
that does not help. I'm on a Windows XP machine with Flash MX 2004 Pro v. 7.2.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Kurt

I'm on a Mac and don't had this problem. But I do watch for video issues on
this site and haven't seen this ? I might have missed a few, but most Flash
users are on Windows so I think it would be common if it were something wrong
with Flash in general.

Then again, what do I know? Because the more I'm thinking about it the more I
think I might have had this problem. But I really can't remember. And sorry to
say the solution was to not use the import function to edit my videos.

You also might want to just see if it is the format of the file you are
importing. Perhaps a different source will work better? I'm just grasping at
straws here.

If you have many of these to do and a budget I suggest getting a third party
tool like Squeeze. Otherwise if you have some third party editor you might want
to use that.

Good luck!

thanks for the advice. I have been using Premiere in the mean time, but the
quantity of videos I am doing quick edits to is so large that this takes much
longer than if i was able to just edit them directly in Flash. I think that
when I installed the Flash MX Professional 2004 Video Update, it failed to
install correctly. Is there a way to check wether this update was installed
successfully?
thanks,
Kurt

Note that I am aware of. I don't exactly remember the Video Update, but I seem
to recall that it was an "extension." So try this: Help?>Manage Extensions and
check to see if it shows Media installed.

Other than that, you could remove Flash and re-install ? which seems like
quite a hassle.

It sounds like you have lots of these to do. It would seem that a third party
tool would be useful to you. It allows things like a watch folder where you
just drop a file and it will do the conversion in the background.

Sorry I don't have more to offer. Good luck and let us know how you fare.