When you do this, you'll see the above dialogue telling you how many frames are in the video, and that your timeline (which would currently be all of one frame long) is not long enough. As I said before, when Flash imports the video, it displays it frame-by-frame on the internal timeline, including the audio--so your timeline needs to be able to handle every frame of the video. This gets really messy on your main stage, which is why movie clips are the perfect single-frame container. Go ahead and click Yes to insert the video into your movie clip's timeline.
Flash Animation 25: Flash for Web Design: Simple Video Imports
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide
While inside the movie clip, drag your video from inside the stage; don't worry about positioning it before dropping it, as the movie clip's bounding box will automatically snap to the size of the video.
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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