Flash - Darren help?

[sikming]

Hi Darren,

I tried to import a very small size video clip into flash 5.0 but was not successful. I tried to save the file as .wav, .wmv, or even .mpeg. When I did an import through flash it gave me the following error message:

"One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them."

Why - I thought F5 can read and is compatible with these files?

After this incident, I tried to open other .fla files that I have created in the past and received the same error or it will open the files quite weird. All layers are combined into one, each is slotted in a key frame on that same layer. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I did try to uninstall and reinstall the program - still no luck.

=(
Sikming

[Darren]

Hi sikming,

The Sorenson compression and streaming technology, is only
supported by Flash MX (6).

There is a third party tool "Flix Pro" that will help Flash
3-5 users to compress their video files. You can read more
about it here at http://www.wildform.com/flix/index.php
where you will also be able to download a demo.

Flix Pro can compress your video files into small size swf
files, with it's built-in codec options. After compression
you can use the loadMovie() command from your main flash
project to import the video on runtime (when your flash is
active). Flix Pro can also be used with MX for those MX
users who wants to play around with videos using flash.

The reason why you get these errors is that the video you
are trying to import has been compressed with a codec that
is not supported by Flash 5. Try and convert your video file
into a QuickTime movie, I think this will solve the import
error.

As for Flash 3-5 users I would not recommend you use this
as a video compression tool as filesize will become to big
and will take to much time for viewers to download. Use the
loadMovie() command instead to load any compressed swf
video files.

Codec errors will not occure with Flash MX, as it reads the
codecs from the Windows API system, which means whatever
codec you might have installed on your computer.

For those who wish to read more about FOURCC Video
Compression and to see the list of FOURCC codec technology
you can visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/archive/devdes/fourcc.asp
however these are only Microsoft registered codecs.

For those who uses DivX as their compression codec, I
would recommend you don't use it.
First of all it's illegal as it is a hacked/cracked MS MPEG
technology, secondly it is unreliable.

Software error:

Did you try restarting your computer before opening other
Flash projects? The reason why is when importing unsupported
video codecs can cause a memory leak, which will turn your
Flash software from an ordinary piece of software into a
flying circus.

Error does not change how the software was programmed, so
there must be a bug somewhere on your system.
It sounds more of a memory leak to me, so try and free
up some memory. Flash is known for eating up a lot memory
because of its special graphic algorithm.

Hope this will help you.
Good luck.

Darren