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shmokes:

Thanks a lot guys.  I'm almost possitive the problem is solved thanks to you (thought we haven't tried it yet).  My wife made the animation 15 FPS, but I know that I captured the video at 29.97 FPS or something.  It sounds like that is definitely the problem. 

If possible I'd like to embed the video because when I started capturing myself I always let the camera run a couple of seconds before I got all animated and then when I was done talking I'd sit there looking at the camera for a few seconds before turning to the keyboard to stop the capture.  My wife covered up these things with fades in Flash, keeping me from having to pull the videos into an editing app and chopping off the ends (not that that'd be hard, but the fades look nice and I'd just as soon not have to mess with the videos at this point if I don't have to).

BTW, it's Flash 8.  FWIW, I'm pretty sure that my wife has access to a program called Squeeze, or something to that effect, at work that can convert to FLV.  Is there any reason for her to do that as opposed to letting Flash do all the encoding, etc., for her?

Dartful Dodger:

We use Squeeze too.  It can crop and cut off the heads and tails of the video for you.  When working with Squeeze don't set the compressions to low. It drops the audio if you try to create something for a 56k modem.

If you're happy with the video file there should have been a Flash Encoder installed when you installed Flash 8:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8 Video Encoder\Flash 8 Video Encoder.exe

This program will create an flv in the same folder the video file was in, with the same name *.flv

Add... > select the movie file
Setting... > select your settings
Start Queue

There are more options and they are all self explanatory.


You can import the video right into Flash too.
We use to work this way it's a lot easier, but it's very bulky to work with, and you don't have as many options when it comes to importing or compressing it.  Once you get your head around the flv components you'll see it's the better way to work with video.

RayB:

I use Squeeze as well, with linked external .FLV files. Though I have also worked with embedded FLVs converted to SWFs.


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