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This is my wishlist for the next version/update of Flix:
1. The ability to set the looping of the movie for a certain number as opposed to loop and no loop.
2. Preloader. The ability to set the movie so that it will load completely before it starts playing.
Those are my main two. Who's got a good wish?
-scott
http://www.scottmanning.com
1. Support for Realaudio- and Realvideo-Files
2. Convert only parts of the File, for example:
converting starts at 1.30 minutes and goes to 2.00 minutes.
3. A variable in the Swf-File, that is changing the value at the end of playing...
4. The option "match source", to convert the swf-file in the same quality as the input-file
5. smaller filesizes... *g*
greetings,
Megaron
My ideas for the next version are :
- render the output as 2 colour (user specified) vectors - with control over how images are rendered (aka Adobe Streamline). This will allow animators to use layers of video-esque scenery..
- ability to render HTML output that contains basic start/ stop/fw/rw/pause functions
- speed up rendering
that's it for now..
Real does not allow you to import their format to be encoded into a different format. You can encode to RealVideo, but not open or import with your program. Licensing issues. My bad.
That sucks. Now I know why Real Audio really sucks. I was actually trying to figure that out the other day and just gave up.Quote:
Originally posted by visualingo
Real does not allow you to import their format to be encoded into a different format. You can encode to RealVideo, but not open or import with your program. Licensing issues. My bad.
-scott
http://www.scottmanning.com
I want Flix 2.0 to have the ability to batch process a group of files. I would want to put in the settings, select multiple vidoes, and have it encode them all at once.
That would save a ton of time.
-scott
http://www.scottmanning.com
I'm very excited about Flix so far!! what an awesome concept! But..Quote:
Originally posted by nocrapchurch
This is my wishlist for the next version/update of Flix:
1. The ability to set the looping of the movie for a certain number as opposed to loop and no loop.
2. Preloader. The ability to set the movie so that it will load completely before it starts playing.
Those are my main two. Who's got a good wish?
-scott
http://www.scottmanning.com
1)Yes!! Flix totally needs a PRELOADER! setting. I know its possible to set the parent SWF to stay at a certain frame until frameX of the external SWF is loaded but some production time could be saved if there was a preloader setting inside Flix.
On the Flix website Wildform claims that now we can "stream video ... without a download..." - am i missing something
OR
does the only way to stream SWF/Flix1.5 encoded video without a download entail manually creating a preloader in the empty movie clip (that would recieve the external swf) in the parent flash movie (as opposed to doing it with Flix)?
here's an example of a 3-minute Flix-encoded SWF targeted at 56k users - with no preloader at all:
http://www.theexitrock.com/flash/gimme56.html
on a 56k modem it doesn;t play smoothly until the entire thing is cached.
2) It would be awesome if on the SWF panel inside Flix we could place our variable on the last frame of the SWF that's to be encoded
Flix 2.0 would rock if it would have the ability to take several video files and combine them into one swf file.
-scott
http://www.scottmanning.com
Here's my wish list.
The ability to set key frames to be higher quality. Like the Company Logo appears. I'd like that frame to be higher quality than the rest.
- Tony
I want a movieplayer to play movies in swf format. Since you cannot import a movie into flash you must call the movie. That is scripting which is difficult. I would like a template for anybody who purchases the product to be able to just name the file and that is the one that will play. A matter of fact I would even pay for an easy to use template like that.
Hi.
Regarding the pre-loader, one of our users has posted a preloader for Flix at:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Third...08/index.shtml
Regarding the players, you can either download our video jukebox smartclip (Flash 5 required) at:
www.wildform.com/smartclips
or you can download the latest version of Flix (1.52) which contains 2 pre-built players for Flash 4 and Flash 5 (the files are installed into your Wildform>Flix directory).
Jonathan
Many thanks to everyone posting their suggestions for Flix 2.0 on this thread. We really appreciate the input and will do our best to include as many features as you want in our next update. If you would like, feel free to email me your suggestions directly at [email protected].
Best,
Jonathan
1) ability to add variables on different frames
2) ability to call a function, or goto a frame at the end of the playing movie
3) change "insert black frame at start" to allow choosing colors (or choosing the movie's background color).
4) ability to link flix movies together (this could also be done with #2)
5) possible ability to include a linked Flash 5 .as actionscript script file on a given frame
6) add different links to different frames
7) import already created .swf files into the beginning and end of the flix movie (for example, to play an intro)
8) ability to loop various parts of the movie, including a rewind function (play until end, rewind 10 seconds-aka play the flash backwards or reverse frames, play til end, repeat)
9) built-in sliderbar with start/stop buttons for controlling the movie's playback (ala any of the media player plugins). the design has to look decent too :)
basically, I really just want a lot more scripting support.
- ability to convert more videos. So I can go drink my coffee and get the videos done... :)
[QUOTE]Originally posted by azzyt
[B]1) ability to add variables on different frames
If we had this we would be in FlixNirvana! :)
idealord
Need a way to batch process a few thousand videos
via Flix. Any suggestions welcome.
I think that taking a certain part of a movie would be most important.. like from 2mins to3mins and leave the rest out... also some btns (fst frwd, rewnd) would be great that the user can check off or on. And some more presets would be good!
Transparency. Transparency. Transparency.
I'me trying to have a person talking on a greenscreen. There should be an option (like PNG sequence) for selecting a background color to be transparent. this way when you load the swf in, it's just what you wanted on the screen, and not the SQUARE/RECTANGLE.
Wildform, get together with the people who make:
Primatte for After Effects and figure out a way to do this and you'll be as big as macromedia (bigger). It can be done!
Anyone come up with anymore ideas?
-scott
http://scottmanning.com/
Well my wish list is very small actually there is no list I would just like wildform to create a Flix activeX control for developers so they may add flix functionality to their programs using VB or C++ or any other language that supports activeX.
And I don’t mind if they require licensing it.
How about an export plug-in for Premiere 6!
Good call!!Quote:
Originally posted by NetKontent
How about an export plug-in for Premiere 6!
-scott
http://scottmanning.com
How 'bout this then: an export plug-in for Premiere 6 that allows you to encode the entire project or just the work area!
Now THAT would be sweet!
Flix is fantastically easy to use.
But it also hurts like hell trying to incorporate it into a preloader or player. In 3 minutes I knew how the program worked, but months later I'm still wrestling with preloaders.
And no offence but I find your demo preloaders obscure. They're either of an odd size, include lots of useless frills like fading text and drop-down bars, or are simply so full of extra layers that it's hard to tell where to insert the actual file that counts. I'm sure Flash gurus have no problems, but then there's everyone else. And there's always more beginners out there than experts.
So my big wish is: make some better way to handle preload options. Sure it must interface with Flash and the hard-core options must still be there for the experts, but how about some simple (but modifiable) parameters for beginners?
Perhaps there could even be a second "plug-in" program for Flix - I'd happily pay. This would be a sort of modular preloader and jukebox program. You select the parameters via sliders and tabs (just like the parent program Flix). For example:
- select percentage to preload before play
- display total file size y/n
- display percentage progress y/n
- add progress movie y/n
In most of these categories (eg: "display total file size") if you select "yes" then you could go to a little panel (like SWFX) where you choose size, colour, font etc of the display type
In the "add progress movie" you could select from some pre-made progress movies like little bars or clocks and drop that onto the loading screen.
After all this you then export the movie and end up with a finished file with preloader, preloader movie and display options embedded. You then put this into your webpage.
An even more expanded version for jukeboxes would be even better, but I'd better stay calm for now....
I wouldn't expect such a thing would be importable in any form into Flash, but then who needs to ! You now have everything you need. This would also be great because you'd capture market share of non-Flash owners. If this non-importable option bothered experts, no worries because they'd do it the old complex way.
I'd pay another US$50 or perhaps even double that if it worked well. And I could use it immediately on the website at my work.
Ah, what a sweet, sweet, dream.......
Well - this thread was a long time dead but obviously contains lots of good thought (and, I find, when you search very often this thread comes up in the results).. so I'm wondering JB whether you could give us a quick outline on what's been implemented from the wishlist.
I'm particularly wondering about transparency - I've only ever found a workaround for greenscreen with background Flash content by giving After Effects anything that should behind the object/person for it to be rendered as part of the video. Obviously this is far from ideal.
I'm guessing this is still not possible but is there a plan to implement it?
Also - batch converting multiple video/audio files to a symbol library with linkage name rather than to the timeline - surely not a difficult feature to implement?
I'd love to hear thoughts on this
A.
Hi.
The way Flash video is created makes supporting chroma-key quite difficult.
Right now you are best off creating your finished chroma-key video in a program like Premier and then converting that output to Flash using Flix.
There are currently no plans to implement batch converting multiple video/audio files to a symbol library as we have very few requests for it.
jb