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    Best AVI to Swish converter for Hi-Quality Video is?

    I need to put up a site that will have a bunch of video's and wanted to try doing it in swish.

    I understand there are a number of programs to convert AVI to Swish.

    1 - Whish is best for best quality viedo?

    2 - Some convert to Flash - will Flash Video work with Swish?

    3 - Can I launch Windows Media Player Pop-up from a Swish web site?

    Thanks for any help - this is my first Swish project.

    So far, I'm haveing a blast and you guys have been great at offiering assistance. Thanks to all.

    Will

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    1. Video quality? Hard to say, though
    Wildform Flix and Swideo have been known
    to perform rather well.

    2. As long as the AVI is converted to
    SWF (as opposed to FLA), it should work
    with Swish.

    3. If you link directly to an AVI file
    with a GOTOURL action, the visitor of
    the website will have their default media
    player popup to play it. It varies from
    computer to computer because everyone's
    settings are different.
    If you want to do this, set the actions
    of the button to:

    ON RELEASE
    GOTOURL "http://www.yourmovie.com/mymovie.avi"

    TARGET "_BLANK"

    (Replace the url with the url of your
    movie.)



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    Will,
    I have been using Wildform's Flix Pro with excellent results. It will convert Quicktime or avi files into swf format (Flash) with variable quality/levels of compression. Keep in mind that Swish creates "Flash" files (swf=Flash format), but will not do any conversions of this type.
    You can then use the load movie function to place your movie into a sprite in Swish.

    Chris

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    Vieno & Chris,

    Thank both of you for your help. I think you have both told me what I need to know.

    I'm probably going to buy one of the two packages Vieno mentioned.

    I would like to hear from others about which converter they think does the best job.

    thanks again.

    Will

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