I am new to video on the web. One of my web page customers has a 30 minute video of himself being interviewed on television and wants it posted to his web site. I am at a loss. It is a .vob file and I copied it and changed it to ..mpg but lost the audio. Should I be doing it in Flash. I us...more >>

I'm calling a 384x320 swf file from Powerpoint. When the hyperlink is clicked, it opens up the swf file, but it opens it up in a maximized window. Is there any code I can add to the address that will allow the window to be opened up to the proper size? I could possibly do this calling up a ...more >>

Hey guys, Im trying to link an external text file into my flash, I can do that no problem http://www.freewebs.com/flashtestsite1/test%203.swf But when I go to display it on another site I cant get it to work. What am I not doing? Or not doing right? I'm just in the testing stages right n...more >>

I need the answer to fixing this video without filtering though the massive content on the FLV subject. Help! 9-1-1! http://redclaygallery.com/video.html...more >>

Hi, I have a flash project with quite a few buttons which worked fine before. However, a problem began when I added a text box to the project. After the text box is clicked on and gets the focus, the buttons don't work properly. The first press works OK, then when I release, the over-state...more >>

Hi, I'm able to create an exe file from a flash project, but it displays the Flash player menu and window's bar. Is it possible to hide the player menu and just to code everything inside the exe (i mean play, pause buttons, or interactive menu) ? how ? thanks a lot, RAF....more >>

I have a question about creating a text input field that will print out the contents to the flash movie. I wanted to create an e-card. There would be an input text field so people could write a message. After writing a message they would click a view button and see their message within the con...more >>

Hello. I'm making a banner ad in Flash. I want it so that anytime a user clicks anywhere it will launch a website. Do I have to put a big invisible button over the whole stage, or is there a better/easier way (using actionscript, maybe) to just code the movie so that anytime anyone clicks ...more >>

Hi -- I am creating a Flash based application and would like to update the controls to the color scheme in use on our website. However, the process of going into each control and updating ALL of the elments is very time consuming. While I can (and probably will) spend this time for this sma...more >>

I have a page that contains a Flash movie that is an flv player. There is a short intro and then there is a list of videos. Clicking on a video link plays the video. When viewing the page in IE7, when any nav link on the page is clicked (there's a nav in the header and a left hand nav), it sta...more >>

I have converted an AVI to FLV in Flash CS3 video encoder. When I try to watch on the FLV-file Flash Player 9 start with an emty window. But do not show the film. But I can choose Real Player and se the film. What is wrong? Can Flash Player 9 only play SWF? ...more >>

:embarrassment; I am new to this Flash thing, trying to teach myself the basics. Have managed to learn how to make buttons and place them etc, but can't for the life of me work out this code stuff. Am I missing something? Most of the material I can find on the net seems to be for older ver...more >>

Hey. I'm sort of new to flash and I have a problem. I am trying to create a shape tween, but every time i change the type to shape all the frames between the keyframes become blank....more >>

Ok here is my problemo... I've created a 28 frame, gun firing flash. It is has massive amounts of details from everything included the gun blast to ejecting spent bullet casings, etc. (took me 6 hours to draw and make the graphical Tweens on this). Ok so I created this so I could use it in...more >>

Hi folks, I don?t know any further: After I tried to install the flash cs 3 prof. I came only untill the end of the loading process (of the setup.exe), the setup window broke up. I retried with/ without firewalls. All apliactions except for win explorer closed, note restarted, everything...more >>

I created a button in my Fla that is used in the last 5 frames of my clip. In IE/7 the user has to click the button twice in order to get it to work. Any help is very much appreciated. Here is my script for the button: this.learn_btn.onRelease = function() { getURL("http://myfakesite.com/...more >>

well i am working on a project and i screwed up, however i have another new fresh copy of the design. so i am going to restart and it would take a long time so is there a way to drag the movie clips, pictures on desktop so i can drag it back into my new copy. beause i tryed dragging and it wou...more >>

Hi all I have a text file which is loded into Flash and displayed accordingly as content. Within the text file I have used URL encoded characters to represent special characters, such as %25 is a percent sign (%). I need to show the sterling pound sign (£) but every time I state %A3 it d...more >>

We are desperately trying to export a Flash movie as a looping movie for a client to use on a 20" monitor at a trade show. We keep trying a combination of settings to keep the resolution of the exported QuickTime movie as high as possible, but so far our efforts have resulted in a less-than-ac...more >>

If I have project that is composed of one main swf that loads others swfs, xml data, and flv videos, is there a tool or 3rd-party app that allows you to package all of that up into one swf that contains everything? There are lots of tools to package several swfs into one .exe or one .scr (scre...more >>

How can I link a text-link within a Flash movie to another frame within that same movie? I know that I can create a symbol to link buttons and graphics to another frame within a movie - but when it comes to text links I can only add an outside URL to the properties inspector. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi i was wondering if anyone can help me find an image pan and zoom component like the one found in this website. http://www.thenorthface.com/opencms/...l=AL5X&site=NA I want it pretty much like it is on that website. ...more >>

I have installed the flash player several times and it says it is successful but when I go back to my webpages it still says I need to update it. When I do a search it comes up with nothing like it was never installed. I am getting so frustrated and the phone cutomer support wouldn't help me...more >>

I'm a newbie with an advanced question... I think. I imported a .flv file (about 5min) into frame 1 of layer 1. After the video ends, I want to add some closing effects (some gradients with text that pops up and says thanks for your time). Is there a way to do this in a nutshell? If this requi...more >>

Hello, I am trying to distort a jpeg image. The skew option is just not good enough for what I want to do. Is there any way to do this? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated... Cheers, P...more >>

I've looked around the forums and the internet and have found some javascript code examples on how to get around the old Active Content problem where you have to click to activate the Flash file. But I don't see anything I recognize. I'm fairly new to Flash, and the way I posted these swf to...more >>

I am using Flash CS3. I am importing a Quicktime video into Flash through File > Import > Import Video. Here's the problem, though. I need this video to be transparent. It appears that all videos imported into this method have a black background. It makes sense, because usually the video ...more >>

hi where i live is hard to find colleges or universitys that offer classes to learn flash animation and websites , also i been in an accident and am using a wheelchair thats the other reason i want something from home , so can you guys help me find a website , college or whetever that trains...more >>

Hi, I have a flash which is serving from infoworld.com and I am embeding that flash page into the www.info.com. So how can I access the page domain from flash. So can my flash know that it is on www.info.com??? Thanks Amar ...more >>

After much aggravation, I finally got my flash animation to link to specific URLs depending on which image people double click. Now I need to have the flash pause when users rollover the different images. There are 6 or 7 different images (and therefore links, buttons) in the animination. C...more >>

I have 5 movie clip Buttons on the main timeline, each of which when released is supposed play a movie clip, also on the main timeline. Each movie clip is a page of the website, and is placed on its own frame (frames 69 to 73) and has a stop action assigned to it. I've labeled each button s...more >>

I was working on a tutorial about using photos in Flash and making a bitmap trace from them. It mentioned how when the bitmap trace was done and one had a greyscale vector image to work with, the image could be given new color schemes by using the paintbucket and the color mixer. I can't fig...more >>

Sorry but I am a total newbie> I have a 4 frame movie imported into one layer and want to specify a different URL to be opened in a separate window for each frame. So I have made each frame a keyframe and added from the behaviors a geturl event for each frame. When this is published it loo...more >>

Using Windows XL and Explorer 7 Flash will not download. I uninstall and retry about a dozen times a day but still no flash. Control Panel lists it as a program but shows no size volume to the file so something has blocked the complete download. I've turned off my internet security program and...more >>

I have many hundreds of flv files in my video clips library. So far, I've been creating a separate swf for each flv. Is there a way to create just one swf which can be instructed to play any flv file? ...more >>

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I have about 10 of "coconut tree" Movie Clips, 1 clouds movie clip, 1sea movie clip. The problem is when i run all of the movie clips together, the animation run very slow. Can anyone help me please................................................:confused;:confused;:confu sed; thanks ...more >>

Right, for day's now I've been trying to get my email form in flash CS3 to work. And it just isn't doing it for me. I'm not getting it sent to my email. Can some one please just spell it out for! My server uses php4, my email address is correct in the php code, the input boxes all have the cor...more >>

Is there some kind of a plug-in for Flash that allows you to create use rotating joints in the way that a 3-D animation program does? Thanks...more >>

how do i embed a swf to 100% of the screen maintaining proportion in a html?...more >>

Has anyone experienced this issue? I have prepared a Flash animation to HDTV 720p specs at 59.94 FPS. Upon exporting to Quicktime, the resulting movie length is more or less double the flash animation length. When brought into AfterEffects, the movie is still twice the length. I'm hesitant to ...more >>

I have a Apple Powerbook 15" w/1.6 Ghz, 2 GB SDRAM, OSX 10.4.10 I loaded a temp tool to read processor heat in real time. With machine at idle, the temp is right at about 100F Go to any video with Flash Media, and the temp reaches 155F. I just checked the version of Flash Player, and it ...more >>

Alright, so I am building a custom drag/drop matching interaction. When everything has been matched, I place a submit button to be pressed. Because of space restrictions, I cannot place the submit before this point. If the user decides to change their answers around, I want the submit to un...more >>

I'm importing a png file using an xml file and a text file for importing text. The image and text show up fine, but when I PRINT, both don't show up. I"VE GOT TO GO LIVE WITH THIS TODAY. It has to Print! PLEASE HELP! ...more >>

There is the Storage Settings in Flash Player when you right-click on flash player and select "settings" menu. This storage setting also displays currently storaged data by the currently viewed site... it is almost always 0kb, and when it isn't 0 its 2kb or some other small value. What and whe...more >>

Hi...I wish to design a flash thingy for a web page which has a digital clock at the top left corner(mins:secs). I can make this clock change every second to update the timer no problem. My problem is that I also want to move and display other stuff on the screen as well. This can get quite...more >>

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/noobule/BrokenFlash.jpg everytime I open up a flash. The Stage, Timeline, Actions panel and the File, Edit, etc Drop Down Menus are all in working order. Unfortunately, from what I can see, everything else [i]isn't[/i]. The Toolbar, Properties Window, ...more >>

Hi, I inherited a FLA file and need to export and edit an image in Photoshop that currently resides in the Flash file. How do you do this? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I want to create scrolling text similar to this website: http://www.christianlouboutin.fr/ If you enter the english site and then click on 'biography' which is the photo frame you will see what I want to achieve. There's a slider on the right hand side which you can move down or up to...more >>

Ok, I am so very confused I am hoping there is a simple explanation. I have a Dynamic Text box called debug which references the variable Class, I have a flashVar.txt file that loads the variable, it's entire contents are: Class=[I]This is italic[/I]. When I load this file, all is good....more >>