i'm putting together a portfolio for the university that i am apply to (UBC in British Columbia). In my portfolio there was a movie that i wanted to include, a 280 meg AVI file. the conditions that i want to keep are

1. i want the portfolio to run in the stand alone player
2. i wanted the avi to run as a seperate program, if possible. in another window or with an external player such as windows media player.

i cannot do the frame by frame movie thingie because the movie is way over 3000 frames and it makes flash very unstable. if there is anything that i can do, i'd appreciate suggestions. i have also converted the AVI file to quicktimes MOV files. i also am having trouble making it play, as the frame by frame instructions that i am given at flash.com do not work. help!