The Swish 2 "import as sprite" may indeed dissapoint. Since the betas are missing SWF export, and you can't really tell but, I am pretty sure that the sounds from a imported SWF from Swish 2 are indead missing just as shapes rotated counter clockwise are also missing and the actions go away. In fact I am 90% sure that the imported sprite will be missing the sound.

- Have you ever noticed that all of the Converted Video to Flash is less than 2 or 3 minutes? This is because the Flash Player caches all of the Bit Map Images into the Ram memory. Any more than 3 or 3 1/2 minutes and most computers are out of resources. The Flash Player really isn't designed to handle bitmaped information in large quanities, such as in the use of Video. Also the Flash Player isn't designed to handle very large movies period. Once you get to 16,000 frames then the player stops. Consider this- At 16 FPS (which is going to be real mediocre video quality) you can get at most 16 minutes of video and that is assumming that the machine does not run out of RAM. At 30 FPS you are only going to get 8 minutes.

The Makers of Swideo, I beta tested for them, reccommend that you not excede 5 minutes.

The maker of Vid2SWF recomends the same thing.

That is why Flashants produced the FMPlayer. Since the Flash player is not really equiped to handle Video it uses OLE to overlay a video layer using Media Player or whatever is installed. In effect it appears as if the Video is part of the Flash but- in effect embedding it.

- I do agree with you though that SWF import and MovieClips would be a good feature to have but not for the same reasons as you do.