LoadMovie FlixPro Flash MX SWF into SwishMax (2)

[jeff689]

(I posted this on the Flash Video forum before realizing there was a Wildform forum. Sorry for the duplication. Any help appreciated.)

I am trying to decide whether to purchase FlixPro or SwishVideo. I am leaning toward FlixPro but want to make sure I can use it with SwishMax before I make the purchase.

In using FlixPro demo version, I can't encode/export (wmv file) using Flash MX SWF settings to load and run a swf in a SwishMax sprite with or without a FlixPro player. I get the sound and can see the X demo watermark but no video. When exporting with a player, the player controls work for the audio but video is blank. I have my SwishMax movie export set for SWF6. The FlixPro Flash MX SWF setting runs the exported swf fine (audio & video) in a separate popup window with and without player.

When I use FlixPro Flash 3+ video settings I can encode, load and run my swf in a sprite container just fine with and without a FlixPro player.

Any thoughts on why I am not seeing video when loading into a sprite with Flash MX SWF presettings?

Thanks!!

Jeff

[Jonathan_B]

It should work.
What happens if you use load movie with a player and just load the player into Swishmax and then have the video be separate?
jb

[jeff689]

Thanks Jonathan. I was going to try that but the "Use Load Movie" funtion is grayed out in the demo version.

Player aside, it would seem that I should be able to load the encoded Flash MX SWF movie by itself.

Any other thoughts??

Jeff

[Jonathan_B]

Sounds like they just don't support viewing MX video SWF files.
What happens when you export the project. Does the video load at runtime?
You will get a lot better video quality using Flix Pro.
jb

[jeff689]

I believe that did the trick!! I had been testing the scene only and had not been exporting my whole movie. Once I did that the MX Flash SWF version played fine.

Thanks again for your help, Jonathan!!

Jeff

[Denver Dave]

So what's the answer? FlixPro or SwishVideo? and what are the trade-offs?

Any opinions appreciated - thanks.

[Jonathan_B]

Hi.
Flix Pro offers much better video quality (with 2-pass vbr) and many more features. Flix was the first Flash video encoder on the market and has been around for over 4 years.
There is a free demo at www.wildform.com/demos.
I believe there is also a demo of Swishvideo so you can compare them yourself.
jb

[Denver Dave]

Thank you for the reply. What are we giving up as far as website video (and audio) over what would be available purchasing the Macromedia Flash MX 2004?

Thank you.

[Jonathan_B]

Flash MX 2004 is a complete Flash authoring program and you can do a tremendous amount with it.
But if you want to conver video to Flash, Flix Pro will provide better quality, more features, and it automates many Flash functions that can be programmed in Flash MX, but which can take quite a while to program. For instance, Flix Pro exports your video in a custom player automatically. It can also add preloaders, links, Flash actions, variables, watermarkes, etc. all automatically.
So if you're working with video it saves you a lot of time.
You can find a complete feature list here:
http://www.wildform.com/flix/features_flix.php
jb