can AS be used as QT movie to flash converter?

basshole · Post by **basshole** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:24 am

I'm sure this is a long shot, but I thought I'd ask. Completely unrelated to animation, I have live action project in a film festival who wants a trailer for said project encoded as as flash file. I'm on a Mac, by the way. I have Final Cut Pro, but this doesn't export to flash without a $99 plugin. I noticed AS can export to flash, and can also import QT movies. I tried importing a quicktime movie, but it doesn't "do" anything. . .if I click the play button, it just sits there in black. Is there a way to use AS to convert a quicktime movie to a flash file?

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:14 am

No, AS will not export to "FLV" which is the video codec for Flash. The only Flash support it has is for vector and image layers but only in the "puppet" style of animation. Otherwise the SWF files can become quite large.

-vern

basshole · Post by **basshole** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:23 am

Damn. Oh well. Thanks.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:35 am

I made a mistake. "FLV" is not really a "codec". It's actually the "container" that holds a video file and allows Flash to display and control it. However until recently FLV used codecs that are patented and proprietary.

Recently other "open" codecs are now supported by the Flash player. You still need a way to convert video to FLV in order for it to be compatible with Flash player.

-vern

basshole · Post by **basshole** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:09 am

Well, it seems it would have cost me between $40-and $100 to find a program to convert AVI (uncompressed version of file) to a flash format, and thankfully the fest allowed me to link them to the trailer on my personal site, so issue resolved.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:40 pm

basshole wrote:Well, it seems it would have cost me between $40-and $100 to find a program to convert AVI (uncompressed version of file) to a flash format, and thankfully the fest allowed me to link them to the trailer on my personal site, so issue resolved.

There are lots of opensource/free applications that allow video conversion between several formats. Most of them uses a few libraries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vi ... g_software

basshole · Post by **basshole** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:36 pm

Thanks. I'll look should it become an issue again.

Jean_R · Post by **Jean_R** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:16 pm

heyvern wrote: Recently other "open" codecs are now supported by the Flash player. You still need a way to convert video to FLV in order for it to be compatible with Flash player.

-vern

Try Riva FLV Encoder (it's free, legal and it works)

Cheers.

basshole · Post by **basshole** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:43 am

Thanks. Is that mac or PC?