cropping videos?

[steviespin]

Hey there.

I have a video, about a minute long, which will be played in about 10 second chunks at various points in a Flash presentation.

Two questions:

1) is it best to pre-crop them into pieces before import to Flash or can i just import the long version then only show certain parts at certain times?

2) I encoded the video in Flash 8 encoder but am using mx2004 to make the piece. is this a problem? Right now the video plays back with audio but with black screen :\

thanks for any info! I'm just learning this video stuff.


SS

[flashvideo]

Flash 8 has some issues in exporting - playback compatiblity in older players even as recent as Flash 7 player


It is better to crop and then display
What you can do is put them in an xml drive player and have them rotate one after the other

Example;
http://www.freefloridakeys.com/