All that's left for this lesson, though, is to repeat the steps for each video preview image and its corresponding page, to link to the right frame--and then create the movie clips that will contain your videos. To make it a bit easier on you and for page consistency, you can try copying your first keyframe to the other video display pages and just using the Swap Symbol function to switch the movie clips out and keep them centered in the same spot. Check out mine here.
Flash Animation 25: Flash for Web Design: Simple Video Imports
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
When you exit out of the clip, however, you have your video on a single frame, neatly contained inside its own "page". For the moment there's no way to control it (for that is the untamable nature of the wild movie clip)--it will just play on its own and continue to loop unless you place stops on the last frames of your video inside your movie clip; we'll spend the next lesson setting up video playback controls with play, pause, stop, forward, and rewind buttons.
Prev
- Introduction and Setting Up
- Extending the Timeline and Making New Buttons
- Directing Preview Buttons to Individual Video Playback Pages
- Importing Video: Embedding or Linking to External
- Video Importing Options
- Video Importing Options II
- Creating a New Symbol as a Video Container
- Inserting Video into the Movie Clip
- Viewing the Video on your Stage
- Conclusion
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