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Video .vob file
Posted by joepd at 10/31/2007 8:56:38 PM
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 >>


PowerPoint Hyperlink to swf file
Posted by Point Happy at 10/31/2007 8:50:34 PM
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 >>

linking external text
Posted by flashdude2920 at 10/31/2007 7:12:27 PM
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 >>

Choppy Video Playback
Posted by BeausMom at 10/31/2007 6:32:57 PM
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 >>

Button problem
Posted by garyd71 at 10/31/2007 5:10:54 PM
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 >>

rookie question about flash -> exe
Posted by R.A.F. at 10/31/2007 5:01:57 PM
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 >>

Input text field
Posted by ebross at 10/31/2007 5:01:41 PM
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 >>

Banner ad clickable?
Posted by DIY_Lobotomy at 10/31/2007 4:14:50 PM
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 >>



Help me with Skins!
Posted by Rich Morey at 10/31/2007 2:47:25 PM
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 >>

Issue with Flash 8 and IE7
Posted by Mark Morse at 10/31/2007 10:15:03 AM
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 >>

What about Flash Player 9?
Posted by hjalmar-igen at 10/31/2007 8:24:51 AM
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 >>

Too old for this.
Posted by Two Creative at 10/31/2007 6:05:21 AM
: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 >>

Shape Tween
Posted by nano404 at 10/31/2007 2:35:26 AM
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 >>

Question on flipping multiple frames - maybe a hard one guys!
Posted by God Life at 10/31/2007 12:16:19 AM
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 >>

Problems de installing flash cs 3 proffessional
Posted by s21w21w1sa at 10/31/2007 12:03:19 AM
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 >>

Flash button issues in IE/7
Posted by bridobe at 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
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 >>

help transferring files!!
Posted by vick75 at 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
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 >>

Help with URl encoded text file!
Posted by douggler at 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
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 >>

CS3 EXPORT TO DVD
Posted by MBKrebs at 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
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 >>

Packaging into just one swf
Posted by Bobcat9 at 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
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 >>

Text link
Posted by amcdowall at 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
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 >>


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