I successfully used the Flash Video Encoder Wizard creating a FLV file. I followed the instructions from the book Flash Professional 8, Training from the Source. My first video was approx 1 min 20 secs long and was an .avi file. I took only about 15 minutes to render, compile, etc. I then sent the files to my server and it worked great.

Then I decided to go to a 4 min 30 sec file and the next section of the lesson #7 was about using another technique "you manually add the FLV Playback-Player 8 component and connect the FLV file to it in Flash." This took almost two hours to accomplish. Again I used an .avi file.

My guess is that the frame size of the video edited in 720 x640 or something close has something to do with the long render, compile time. I used Sony Vegas Movie Studio for the original editing.

Does anyone have any clues as to how I should proceed in the future? I tried saving my original in .wmv files but I got an error message that said I was out of virtual memory. I had 20 gbytes of space in my system. So that is odd.

Either of these can be viewed in
www.dittomark.com/v2
www.dittomark.com/turkcall

Thanks anyone. Dave