Hi,
This is my first post here. I’m really hoping someone can give me some help. I am working on a kiosk project for a client. The job is huge and very important to our company. The basic layout is a Home slide with three selections. From there you go into a sub-menu for the selection you chose. There will be a total of 30 slides that need to play video clips AND use cuepoints to activate some movie clips that will popup when the speaker in the video talks about key points. Got the idea? Every route I have taken has given me trouble. I’m using Flash MX Pro 2004.
Presentation
Main Menu
…SlideA
…10 more slides nested inside SlideA, each with video and cuepoints
…SlideB
…10 more slides nested inside SlideB, each with video and cuepoints
…SlideC
…10 more slides nested inside SlideC, each with video and cuepoints
Option#1
The entire kiosk is a single slide presentation. There are 30 MediaDisplay instances. It uses many child slides for use with cuepoints. The main menu is on a upper slide so it shows on all child slides. This “should” have worked fine, but it appears that the slides have some bugs. When I click on a button to take me to another slide, it goes there for just an instant and then returns to the slide I was just on. This only happens when you are on a child slide that has been launched by a cuepoint. It seems unusable. I spent 3 days trying to figure out what went wrong. It appears to be a bug in Flash.
Option#2
Same as the first except I use frame cuepoints instead of slide cuepoints. Navigation works just fine, even with child slides. The problem here is that often the flv file starts playing the sound, but the video can’t be seen. After 10-15 seconds, the video will pop in. That does not happen on all the video clips; just some of them. This presentation is running locally, so it shouldn’t have a loading problem, but it seems like it does. Could this be yet another bug, or am I missing something.
Option#3
I thought that maybe the problem with #2 was the number of instances of MediaDisplay I am using, so I tried a new approach. I put the media display component on the top most slide and the child slides point to the correct video file to run. That part worked fine. The problem is the cuepoints. It seems like the cuepoint listener MUST be on the action of the Media Display component. It also needs to use frames from the slide that contains Media Display for the cuepoints. I obviously need the cuepoints to go to frames on the child slide, not on the slide that contains Media Display. So i can’t get that working.
I’ll be glad to expand on this if anyone needs more info. Heck, I’m willing to PAY someone to help. I am soooo frustrated with this. I’m running out of time. My boss comes back every day to see the kiosk. All I have been able to say is “I ran into some trouble”. That stresses us all out.
Can you help? If need be, I’ll set up a FTP site so you can grab some of the files. If you can help me get through this, I’ll find some way to reward you.
Thanks for reading this and for the help.
Tom
