# Movies in flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-flash/3204
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 16, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-flash/3204 "2001-01-16T13:20:25Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-flash/3204/1 "2001-01-16T13:20:25Z")
I can’t seem to find out how one plays a movie file such as quicktime .mov in a flash movie. The flash HELP files say that it isn’t possible to export a quicktime movie in a .swf format, yet I’ve seen it done on the net.
Could someone help me?
[Hencca@mail.com](mailto:Hencca@mail.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-flash/3204/2 "2001-01-16T16:13:03Z")
Hello Hencca,
It’s done by converting the movie into Flash. I have written an extensive and thorough tutorial that explains how to convert a QT movie into the Flash format and use it in the movies. The URL is:
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/movie.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/movie.asp)
I hope that helped. If you have any further questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to reply back.
Regards,
Kirupa Chinnathambi
[kirupa@kirupa.com](mailto:kirupa@kirupa.com)