Question : live movie clip in swf format

is there a way to insert a live movie clip into the flash file and view it in an swf/exe format

(when i export in quicktime format my masked layer is not seen)

Answer : live movie clip in swf format

video is not currently supported inside the flash player. therefore, as you have seen, it won't show up in the SWF or EXE files created from flash.

a few different approaches to doing this.

1. see this technote, which explains why, among other things, mask layers don't work on quicktime content:

Some Flash features do not work in exported QuickTime movies
http://www.macromedia.com/go/14129

2. more information about using quicktime in flash:

Tips for troubleshooting QuickTime in Flash
http://www.macromedia.com/go/14041

3. you can actually fake video in flash. video is made up of a series of bitmaps and a soundtrack. if you have the file as a quicktime .mov file, you can import it into flash, export as series of gifs or jpegs, and strip out the audio track. you can bring this back into flash, and then create what looks like real video. big file. suitable for .EXE and not SWF:

How to simulate video in Flash
http://www.macromedia.com/go/14111

4. you can use a third party tool to launch an AVI file from a Flash projector. flashjester makes a tool called "j-avi" that does this:

http://www.flashjester.com/noneflash/javi.htm


let me know if you need any other information.

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