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Converting a video to flash for a website


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I have a 23 MB video clip that i want to put as flash on my website. I want it like a flash animation just like we have the low size but high quality youtube adds at the start of a video, Although it will not be an ad but an introductory video about 2 min long, can i get it done with any software. I tried Xillasoft conversion to SWF but did not get the player bar to forward to pause the video.

Does any one know anything apart from a usual google search. ?

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Can you not just upload to youtube and embed the video from there? Does it have to be flash?

If I wanted to i would have. :D but a flash would load faster than a video. I want to make it accessible for a 312kbps bandwidth connection.

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Use Freemake Video Converter it suppoerts .fla .swf and also html5. it can embed video to your webpage.

I'm sure it will solve your problem ;)

This one is good as well :)

But please tell more information about your needs as I've a lot of experiences with video ... so I hope to help you with what you want to do.

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This one is good as well :)

But please tell more information about your needs as I've a lot of experiences with video ... so I hope to help you with what you want to do.

Thanks for the software, will try it out. i have a video that i uploaded to my youtube channel and used the embedding to put it on my website, but it would be best if i can convert that into an swf - with a little play and pause button(this is purely optional), so that it loads just like those high quality ads. basically the motive is to skip the need to use a video streaming. I want it to be easily playable on load for low bandwidth connections.

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So I have like 30GB of videos of my grand daughter that I have put up on flash for family website - just running gallery3. The orig videos are 60fps 1080p so quite large.. Just no real good way to serve those up for people to stream off a website. So trim them down in size and quality to work good with flv. Which gallery3 serves up great.

I use the FREE software http://www.leawo.com...-flv-converter/

Its a NO BRAINER to use - really any monkey could figure it out!!

And it does a good job - size is very reasonable and quality is good

example

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And you can make the video full screen if you want, etc.. this is just a snap off the site of one of my fav videos ;)

also gallery3 has built in player, etc.. So if you looking to host videos -- its a great choice.. More than happy to help you get it set up if you want. So here are more examples of control and full screen mode, etc..

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Here is full screen mode

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You can convert it to .flv using Any Video Converter Ultimate

Any Video Converter is excellent.

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Btw just looked, the orig file in my example was 93.6MB converted to flv down to 18MB for the 1 min some video.. Great qual even off the website.

If you give some more details of what your wanting to do exactly - more than happy to help in any way I can.. Where are you hosting this site.. Do you have any limitations to what you can do, etc.??

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You don't seem to get it. Video is series of images compressed with some algorithms (like take the previous image and use it as a base for the next, etc). What you think of is vector animation (flash) which is usually small (if you keep the polygon count low). Generally the best results you can achieve is use modern video formats that are supported for playback from flash (that is mp4). You can not convert raster images to vector (you can but not in a way you will benefit).

So get some converter, covert to mp4 (h.264 and aac sound) and use JW Player to play it on your site or upload to youtube. You can get it running on almost any connection but you will have to reduce the quality (it will probably look awful)

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd_video_flash_player.html

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You have some free choices, such as Free Video to Flash Converter of DVDVideoSoft, Video4Web Converter etc.

To get more information about how to convert video to flash

Any video converter and other freewares should do, not tested it yet though.

You don't seem to get it. Video is series of images compressed with some algorithms (like take the previous image and use it as a base for the next, etc). What you think of is vector animation (flash) which is usually small (if you keep the polygon count low). Generally the best results you can achieve is use modern video formats that are supported for playback from flash (that is mp4). You can not convert raster images to vector (you can but not in a way you will benefit).

So get some converter, covert to mp4 (h.264 and aac sound) and use JW Player to play it on your site or upload to youtube. You can get it running on almost any connection but you will have to reduce the quality (it will probably look awful)

http://www.adobe.com...ash_player.html

One point though, what if i want to trim my movies database (currently touching ~200GB) my reducing it to mp4 without much loss in resolution. I mean, i should not see cracks while playing on my 1366x738 laptop screen. What properties should i tweak with. I am just looking to save some space on my 1TB and all my best collection on cloud with best fair enough quality in lesser size.

Btw just looked, the orig file in my example was 93.6MB converted to flv down to 18MB for the 1 min some video.. Great qual even off the website.

If you give some more details of what your wanting to do exactly - more than happy to help in any way I can.. Where are you hosting this site.. Do you have any limitations to what you can do, etc.??

just a 14Mb video clip on home page as introduction,(basically a slide show of images with background sound and text). I am hosting it on one of the free hosting webspace (my pilot project). its .flv, a 5min duration clip which i want to make an SWF instead of a streaming video.

Also going from 93MB to 18MB is excellent provided we dont compromise on the quality too much. would try this with my movies database (have about 200GB's stuff).

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14MB seems a bit large for a slide show and music. How many slides are you talking? There must be a gazillion swf slide show creation tools out there.

There is big difference in producing a slideshow for a website and playing of your movie database which unless they are home movies I would not see streaming them off a website, etc.

So want to make sure on the same page here, is this 200GB something you want to put up for friends and family to watch on a private site or something you want the public to view.. Where there might be 100 concurrent users viewing at the same time sort of thing?

Or are you talking your movie collection that you watch at home be it via your computer or media player on your TV and you just want to trim down the space. I have TBs of videos in my collection that I watch via my popcorn hour on my TVs.

I am guessing you want this 200GB of movies to be available on the web, and not your home network? Yeah you can trim that way down!! I just did a quick check on my video site, which has pictures as well as movies. There are 352 Movies on there, which are like 27.8GB full size on my disk at home, on the site counting even the pictures and site size, etc. its like 4.4GB -- that's what less than 15% of original size.

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14MB seems a bit large for a slide show and music. How many slides are you talking? There must be a gazillion swf slide show creation tools out there.

There is big difference in producing a slideshow for a website and playing of your movie database which unless they are home movies I would not see streaming them off a website, etc.

So want to make sure on the same page here, is this 200GB something you want to put up for friends and family to watch on a private site or something you want the public to view.. Where there might be 100 concurrent users viewing at the same time sort of thing?

Or are you talking your movie collection that you watch at home be it via your computer or media player on your TV and you just want to trim down the space. I have TBs of videos in my collection that I watch via my popcorn hour on my TVs.

I am guessing you want this 200GB of movies to be available on the web, and not your home network? Yeah you can trim that way down!! I just did a quick check on my video site, which has pictures as well as movies. There are 352 Movies on there, which are like 27.8GB full size on my disk at home, on the site counting even the pictures and site size, etc. its like 4.4GB -- that's what less than 15% of original size.

The 14M is the mp4 size, its actually 8MB in .flv. Something like this,

, static images follow each other in the slide show.

About the 200 GB, that is totally separate thing(no related to my website), i just want to trim down to upload and save not necessarily watch or stream them, that is sort of backup i am preparing, in case my external storage gets damaged. so that i still have the trimmed down version available, However, if there is a cloud space that can offer that much space (like mediafire) and online streaming option i would rather choose that, that way i will also have a backup and can just steam and glance through them all.

Most file hosting sites just provide download links instead of streaming and storage combined.I have been using vimeo but its got limits under free version(500 mb per week) and has i am not sure if i will be allowed to keep the copyrighted content on cloud.

15% look too good.. \m/

In short, i am looking for:

a software/mechanism that can trim down the content from 200GB &

a storage cloud that can offer that much of space with a possibility of streaming

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Reducing file size for backup -- not something I would suggest.

Why don't you just buy one of the many online backup solutions out there. Carbonite, SpiderOak, Backblaze, Mozy, etc. etc.. Most of them provide unlimited backup for a fixed price per year.

Your going to be very hard pressed finding somwhere to store 200GB for free, if that is what your looking for?

My webhost provides me with 50GB of free backup space. Now if I wanted to put up the original files for download, it would be unlimited space. But that content is not for public consumption, converted to flv for streaming reasons -- you can not really stream a 400MB mp4 file easy off a shared hosted server, especially with some of my friends and families limited internet speeds.

So I trim them down mostly for ease of streaming. Now I could prob get by with just storing the originals on there as well and say they are webcontent. But that is not really true -- once I get to the 50GB limit I will readdress, etc. I think they charge like 10cents for every gig over the 50 per month. So that is pretty cheap option as well ;)

So if you have a webhost that allows for the space - you could just put the files up on your webspace. But if these are copyrighted material I would not suggest you put it up anywhere.. I personally see no reason to backup such files - you either have the original, or could buy the original, or just get it again from the same place you got it before ;) If you want a backup - do it local! Pickup another disk.

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Yeah if this 200GB is not your own personally created content, I would not suggest you "back it up" anywhere online -- unless you encrypt it first and use generic names like backup1, backup2, etc. Even then it going to be easier to just pick up a backup disk. Prices are starting to come down, I grabbed a 2TB a few weeks back for $110. They use to be like $60 on sale, etc. Hopefully they will be back to <$100 for 2TB here soon! The 4TB are out -- sure at some point those will even get to be very reasonable in price ;) One good thing about disk prices, they always seem to be falling unless there is a something major that disrupts production.

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Yeah if this 200GB is not your own personally created content, I would not suggest you "back it up" anywhere online -- unless you encrypt it first and use generic names like backup1, backup2, etc. Even then it going to be easier to just pick up a backup disk. Prices are starting to come down, I grabbed a 2TB a few weeks back for $110. They use to be like $60 on sale, etc. Hopefully they will be back to <$100 for 2TB here soon! The 4TB are out -- sure at some point those will even get to be very reasonable in price ;) One good thing about disk prices, they always seem to be falling unless there is a something major that disrupts production.

Yeah its my collection of movies, all genres that i purchased/rented/borrowed. most of them are BlueRay and hence the size 200GB. Speaking of encryption, i have win7 home premium, which does not have the built in "bit locker encryption". I read about "TrueCrypt", should i consider upgrading or try this freeware instead. Again this will be for my movies(which i have in a separate partition made in my 1TB). So instead of encrypting the whole drive, i would need to encrypt only one with the movies in it.?

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Try SWF & FLV Toolbox conversion to SWF to add movie controls bar (Play/Stop/Frame-by-frame preview buttons, progress bar and volume control). If this option is enabled, movie controls will be automatically hidden in the resulting SWF file.

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