# Video in flash - Sorenson Squeeze alternatives?

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**Created:** [December 19, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash-sorenson-squeeze-alternatives/97224 "2003-12-19T03:15:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![outro\_lugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@outro\_lugar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/outro_lugar)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash-sorenson-squeeze-alternatives/97224/1 "2003-12-19T03:15:45Z")

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I learned in class that sorenson squeeze is the converter for videos to be imported into flash but i was wondering if there is an alternative so I dont have to pay $120 for it? I know it comes built in MX2004 but I want to use MX and import videos… what can i do?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash-sorenson-squeeze-alternatives/97224/2 "2004-04-08T03:40:14Z")

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from my limited experience, i found that quicktime pro was a better alternative than flash alone and it’s only like $30. the main benefit was the 2 pass vbr.

anyway, i created an flv and then embedded it into a swf so that it can be seen on vesion 6 players. also, my understanding is that it’s easier to create a preloader (to start after partial download) with swf’s than flv’s. but i dont kno if this is indeed the best method… anyone have any thoughts on this? or can point to a good tute on preloading and controlling videos without using the media components?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash-sorenson-squeeze-alternatives/97224/3 "2004-04-08T13:19:04Z")

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well, flash mx and mx 2004 both do good by themselves when importing a video. I agree on embedding into a swf though, it makes things more flexible… My problem was not being able to import .mov files compressed in a certain way (video lingo i dont really remember) so I had to learn how to use codecs etc to recompress my .movs - apparently it’s a bug in flash - a lot af articles on it from macromedia and other places.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash-sorenson-squeeze-alternatives/97224/4 "2004-04-08T19:30:21Z")

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again, i personally got much better results using quicktime pro than flash mx 2004 by itself… possibly 5-10 times better quality - not that i can really quantify the difference.

i started with avi’s and not mov’s - not sure if that makes a difference.