Can Flash do this or is it the wrong tool?

[kiwisheep]

I have a bunch of Quicktime and Windows Media files that will be used for a CD presentation. I have not come across a way to call these media externally. The Flash book says that I have to embed the video into Flash or linked it. The problem with embedding is that I have to do an extra step of converting each quicktime and windows media file into SWF. Also, I didn't like the embedded video running at 12fps.

What I hope to do is to let Flash call the video just like the way a internet browser plays a video made in Quicktime or Windows Media Player.

This seems to be a simple problem but I can't believe that Flash can't do it or maybe I'm just ignorant.

Can somebody help or recommend a plug-in extension that will allow me to do the above.

Thanks

[danielmoreno]

Hi there here's some suggestion, FlashMx embeds movies into flash, but then, you'd like to run it on 12fps, at least, but that's up to you, i mean you can always change it to 24 or 25 if you want, i know exactly what your problem is and here's something to help you out, first if you have a lot of movies to embed so i suggest to use something else than flash cause it'll really play ssssssslooooooowwwwwwww...
here's a list of software to use
SWFstudio 2.0 at www.northcode.com
FlashStudioPro at http://www.multidmedia.com/
this are really powerfull tools that will allow you to enbed the movies the way you like and many, many more things that you'd probably love, i can tell...
You always have DirectorMX but there's no price batle here, those to up there are the ones, now is up to you which one to buy, i haven't decided it my self yet, anyways these are just to authoring programs of the bunch but in my opinion the ones worth a look
I hope this helps