FLV size

There is no good workaround for video in Presenter at this time. FLVs in the presenter panel are too small and don't offer the control you need while SWFs in the body of a slide have horrendous issues with long waits for buffering and are unusable for clips over 2-3 minutes.

You also cannot make the video large enough in most cases without compounding the problems and the Sorenson codec looks terrible at large screen sizes.

Clients just hated the product for streaming video so our solution was to build our own custom add-in that automatically launches a new, frameless window of any desired size (even fullscreen if required) that plays the video using the On2 VP6 codec. This gives you the ability to play content of unlimited length - full length movies are no problem - and the window automatically closes as soon as it's finished playing. No user intervention is required.

You can even show a movie with sub-title overlays so a single source file can be used for a multilinual audience. Uploading your presentation to the server is a snap because you're not embedding the movie in the slideshow each time. It's really very elegant and works like a charm. You can see a sample at http://Train.RefinedData.com/RefinedVideo and I'd be happy to supply anyone with a free trial sample to play with.

The solution works just as well in meetings and meeting recordings.

All the best,

Terry (Skype "terryshane")

That's good to know. Thanks

Connect 7 should be in Flash Player 9. If this will fix the problem, I'm not sure, but there is a chance...

Thanks very much for the response.
Regarding "Try adjusting the settings for the video with the application that created the FLV", I created the FLV using Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 and I don't see any settings there that will force the window to match FLV dimensions.
Regarding "convert it to a SWF and embed it in the presentation.": this is the advice I was given by Adobe Connect Tech Support. But they said in order for this to work with Adobe Connect, I'd need to publish the SWF with the Flash Player 7 as the target. I used OnVP6 to compress the FLV and Flash Player 7 will not playback the FLVs with VP6 compression.
So I'm just going to live with having to resize the FLV window each time one opens. And hope that the next version of Connect will fix this issue.
Thanks again.

Unfortunately only SWF files are customizable in Presenter. FLV videos are only usable in the "talking head" location within the presentation. If you are linking to a FLV video with a hyper link in the presentation, then the opening and display are based on the properties of the player and the video itself. Try adjusting the settings for the video with the application that created the FLV or convert it to a SWF and embed it in the presentation.