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I need to convert a number of SWFs (linear animations, consisting of a video with overlaid titles) into MP4. The web is full of come-ons for products with poorly written/translated marketing sites,...

I'm not able to locate anyone with After Effects (or at least anyone who is willing to take on this project). So I'm back to converting SWF to mp4. I will post this as a new question.

Is there a way with After Effects to feed in a separate "titles" file, with start time, duration and text for each title? It'd be a simple text or xml file. If that would work we could skip the Flash...

I'm loading a SWF (essentially a video, without titles) into an AS 3 (Flash) project, adding titles (multiple passes, in multiple different languages), and exporting each language version as an SWF....

I'm working in CS4 on a project someone else developed using AS2 (though the AS2 aspect may not be relevant here).

The project uses dynamic text fields but it only uses Arial, so I suspect I could...

Something weird going on - I created several font symbols within my master .fla file and apply them to dynamic textfields as textformat.

Those styled with the normal or bold font symbols work just...

Can this be done with Javascript? Can I open a new window and "hand it" my already preloaded SWF? I'm using SWFObject 2, if that makes a difference...

Whoops - I think this isn't gonna work.

According to Adobe's docs, the send() method has a 40k limit on passed data parameters. My SWF is relatively svelte (compared to what it could be in this...

Bulletproof is definitely the way to go for this one.

So let me think this out loud a little and perhaps you can help me fill in the blanks...

Right now the SWF loads and, once complete starts...

I'm working on a project where the user goes to a regular HTML page and clicks a "Launch" link, which pops up a full-screen window. The SWF then loads in the full screen window and off they go.
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I'm a Flash/AS3 developer working on a proposal for a Flash-based site for a resort hotel. The site will include a store/cart for selling branded merchandise and a reservation system. I figured...

Nice demo. Just started using CS4 and not ready to jump into the new stuff yet. I ended up just slapping a black rectangle over it because I needed to be able to tween it to/from invisible. Assuming...

I'm working on a full-screen site in which the background image (full-screen, probably at least 1600 x 900) needs to darken sometimes.

I could load another big image and visible/invisible it on...

If you start by getting it to work via a clickable link in the HTML page that contains the Flash, you can at least troubleshoot the functioning of it. I.e (in the HTML page):

<a...

Well I found it.

I was instantiating my tween variables within functions in the image spinning class. Once the function was done the tweens would get garbage-collected, leaving the images stuck in...

Here's my image-spinning class. This is the one that seems to stall midway through for several of the images (usually the first 2-4 of 6 total):


package src
{
...

I can be a little more specific - the stalls seem to happen during tweening of objects.

The one I run into most commonly is, the site loads and starts to play, and the first thing that happens is...

No - stalls at different points.

In one case, I loaded it and it stalled partway through one mask-reveal animation. Then reloaded and stalled in the next mask reveal animation. Then reloaded and...

I'm building some navigation that extends all the way from left to right across my SWF. When the window resizes, I'd like the nav buttons to get wider but not have the text on the buttons get wider. ...

I'm having problems with a SWF stalling during playback. It's a once-through intro, with no interactivity. It's got a couple of layers with a LOT of little vector objects - each object is fairly...

Looks like you are right. Seems like I always have to work around Flash - oh well, maybe by CS - I dunno - 9 or so they'll get it all sorted out.

So as to the second part of my question - if I...

Normally a mask reveals whatever is within the layer below that is overlapped by whatever is on the mask layer. I'm trying to do the opposite.

What I'm working on starts with a city street grid....

I'm not sure if it's because I switched to using a document class or what, but I don't seem to be having any problems now.

I don't have to click any pencils or anything. I just:

1. Create a new...

Yep - that was it. Wonder why it didn't work the other way...?

Oh well.

I thought I was doing this right...(this is all in my document class)...

Import:

import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;

import src.displayStates.SlideshowState;

Declare: