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MadrikMedia
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December 10, 2018
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Importing and Playing back Videos in Animate

  • December 10, 2018
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I'm a recent convert from Adobe Director to Animate.  I'm used to being able to import video content into my projects and interactively playback that content along with my animated layers, etc. in Director.

So far I'm struggling with getting video content into my projects and getting it to play using AS3.  Note:  I am transcoding my videos as Mpeg4 and I've found the AS3 commands to play videos.  When I test my projects, the video just starts playing and doesn't wait for the EventListener to cue the playback. 

Anyone out there have some suggestions on workflow for incorporating Video into Animate Projects?

Thanks in advance for any help you can lend!

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Correct answer kglad

click file>import>import video and embed the video in a timeline or use an flvplayback component.  both allow the as3 project to start without having the video start.

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kglad
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kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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December 10, 2018

click file>import>import video and embed the video in a timeline or use an flvplayback component.  both allow the as3 project to start without having the video start.

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MadrikMediaAuthor
Inspiring
December 12, 2018

Thanks for your reply... sorry for the lag in response.

So it seems that FLV as a format is no longer supported by Adobe and you can't export your QT's as FLV's any longer. 

The import option for "embed" notes that you cannot export your video in your project... that it's for "design only".  So neither of these solutions seem to be workable unfortunately. 

Any other ways to get .mov's in and published in your finished product?

Thanks!

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MadrikMediaAuthor
Inspiring
December 14, 2018

your initial message is misleading but you can use an older version of ame.


kglad

As always, I greatly appreciate the input. 

So for those of us jumping into Animate in 2018 using the 2019 edition of the software and the newest version of Adobe Media Encoder, this is a disappointment to learn that Adobe isn't supporting video in the software any longer by no longer supporting Flash/.flv.  It's also disappointing to learn that Animate will only play nice with the FLV video format and none of the other standard/widely used formats that Adobe's suite of creative software already uses.  In this way it puts Animate off on an island and feels like it's not really supported. 

I can poke around and source an older version of MediaEncoder but this isn't a good long term solution... it's a bandaid. 

Thanks again for the input - I'm bummed that I can't effectively marry existing video projects with my Animate created animations without the help of a legacy encoder.  ARGHHH

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