Video into Flash?

programming flash
1

hi

id like to know if its possible to import video (avi,mpeg etc.) into flash

i would like to take a scene from a video and convert it into a short flash…

help?

any links would be greatly appreciated…

thank you:)

2

just import the mpeg, etc. then name the instance, and you can control it with AS, just like any other movie clip…

Rev

3

ah ok thanx!
it worked (as you can tell im painfully new to flash)

i have ONE more question:

-now that i made the movie…how can i make the entire flash movie a link? as in, i can click anywhere on the flash movie and it takes me to a URL that i set…

thanks for the help again =)

4

I know of two ways, there is a action script way (which i dont remember) and there is the hidden button way.

To create a hidden button, simply draw out a shape the size of your swf movie and convert it to a button (f8), after converting , simply double click the button and drag the keyframe from the over state to the hit state. Make sure you have no keyframe on any other frame than the ‘hit’ state, this is unless you want something to pop up on a over state.

After you do that, you will see that your button that was a solid colour before will be a semi transparent fluro green colour. this is to show that it is a hidden button. Select the button and place the following script.

[AS]
getURL(“yoursite.html”, “_blank”);
[/AS]
::change “yoursite” with the site you want, and _blank is telling flash that it want to open a new Explorer window, there is other options such as

_self
_parent
_top

Hope this helps.
:smirk:

5 
link = new Object();
link.onMouseUp = function() {
	getURL("http://www.kirupa.com", "_blank");
}
Mouse.addListener(link);

or if you want to display the hand cursor you can create the movie clip with as …

this.createEmptyMovieClip("link", 1000);
link.beginFill(0, 0);
link.lineTo(Stage.width, 0);
link.lineTo(Stage.width, Stage.height);
link.lineTo(0, Stage.height);
link.lineTo(0, 0);
link.endFill();
link.onRelease = function() {
	getURL("http://www.kirupa.com", "_blank");
}

there was a thread about this … lost when kirupa moved the forums :-\