Hi there,

I'm exporting a bunch of short projects to Flash, for a web site, and I'd love some advice.

1.  am I right to export out of Avid at full 1920x1080, Animation codec, best quality, 4100 Kbps audio... before converting/encoding to Flash?

2.  I have Episode to convert to Flash... my first attempt was a swf file; that didn't seem to play.  QuickTime could maybe do it, but I got a window saying I would have to download a bunch of small apps from an Apple(?) site.  I went to the site, and it wasn't obvious to me which of the six or so little apps I needed, or how to download them.  Can anyone advise re this?

VLC wasn't able to play the .swf file either, so I encoded to .flv instead.  In my test, the .flv file played via VLC (QuickTime couldn't open it)

My other question is this:  can I get these files to play without displaying the name of the file off the very top? At least a couple of my videos have text off the top, and having to see the name of the file when it first plays is distracting (not to mention unnecessary). The odd thing is that if I stop the playback (in VLC) and take it back to the top, the name of the file doesn't reappear.  Will it appear when someone plays this flash video on a website?

Thanks for any advice,

Malcolm 

It's a feature of VLC that you see the name, it should also appear with other files. They won't appear on the website.

You can install the Perian Codec for Quicktime which includes the flash codec (and many others) to watch your flash movies with quicktime, it's free:

http://perian.org

I think you will need a flash player that will play your .flv files on the website, like this one:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player

Thanks very much Bloersch... I'll get that Perian codec right away, and check into the other one.  

Much appreciated.

Malcolm

If your encoder runs on the same machine as MC or the mediafiles are located on a unity-workspace, you can export as Quicktime-Reference, that may save you a lot of diskspace.

Keep an eye on your perian install. We've seen it conflict with some FCP machines. Just a note, try it, but if QT gets weird, uninstall it.

O.K., I'll watch for any odd behaviour.  I don't use Final Cut Pro, so maybe I'm o.k.

In the meantime, it's nice to see QuickTime playing Flash.

Malcolm