Cannot seem to find a good tutorial that explains displaying animations with Flash. What is the best way to do this? I’ve tried embedding the animations, but in the end they run slowly and a bit choppy. How can I have the animation open directly in anther window? Is that possible only in quicktime format…which for me created a much larger file format. Any help out there? Thanks!
embedding is not a good idea for longer animations.
better to convert your anim to flv, and use the netstream connection with a video object to play it.
can give you a script that does this if you like…
This is only the second website that I am doing…so what you just said to me is completely foreign!!! Is that all something that is done directly in Flash? Easy to do?
i d be interested kimgar, if ur willing to share!
by the way how can we always centre the page on the browser?
sory to hijack the thread cristoforo
sure, you can pick up a set of files here:
www.indok.no/filetransfer/temp/videoTemplate.zip
this is the stripped down version that might be a good start if this is all foreign to you, let me know when you are ready for the heavy version with playbars and fps checker and stuff 
oh, i forgot - if you want to center your flash in html, there’s many ways, but the easiest is to go to publish and under the html tab you need to check :
1.dimension = percent
2.scale = no scale
…there’s a .as file in that zip - that is the script. you can use flash/notepad or whatever to view it, but i’d recommend sepy:
http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php
i owe u one!
thanks man!
or…errrmm …tusen tak!
definately use flash,
recently I had a max animation that I rendered out as a image sequence, imported those images into flash, hit publish - presto, the real nice thing is that you can use scripts to control the animation, in my case I had a 0-140 frames, and from 60 -140 was a loopable section, so I was able to add a script that played frames 0-140 and then looped the range from 60 -140. Dont think i could have done it any other way other than using Flash . see it here http://www.transeal.com/howitworks.htm
hope that helps,
Tom
Tom, I used the same technique for my index page…works great. Though, for the animations that I want to show…they are project animations…like around 3500 frames…already with compositing work (fading,etc.). So, I do not think that method would work quite well.
kimgar i couldn t make it work as expected…when i manage to center the damn thing it “eats” some navigation buttons…?
bare hyggelig ene.xis! hah, a norwegian/swede in portugal? that’s funny, i almost ended up there myself a couple of years ago - sent some CV’s and was just about to put my ass on the plane when i got this job, and got stuck here…
not sure what’s causing the eating of buttons though, if you could send me a sample i can have a look at it in the morning…
tom’s way is great for smaller stuff, but for 3500 frames it is better to convert to an flv
sorry I misunderstood you, I thought you were new to flash, didnt realise your site is in flash already. Only used FLV once- for DV footage (5 mins approx) and it worked well, have you tried the adobe flash forum?
Tom
it is fairly easy cristoforo, the amount of scripting needed is minimal :
var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection_nc.connect(null);
var myStream:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);
videoMC.videoObj.attachVideo(myStream);
myStream.play("video/myVideo.flv");//CHANGE THIS!!
…just paste that in frame 1, and that’s it
OK…I’ll take a look at it tomorrow and give it a try…I’ll surely have problems!!! :?
good luck to you!
i’d be glad to help you out if i can, PM me if you need any!
nahhh
a real latin blood here! :lol:
i was in trondheim as an exchange student for 1 year a long time ago!!
so that s all the norwegen i can remember by now! :lol:
i ll give it another try sometime today…and if i cant sort it i ll pm u if it s ok?
thanx
for sure, i’ll give you norwegian lectures whenever you want!
trondheim eh? nice town, spent my year in the army there