Best way to import a Camtasia .SWF File?

[Jared Hess]

I recently created a screen tutorial (as an .swf file) using Camtasia Studio 5 and would like to import the .swf I created into a topic of a Flash Web project I'm working on. I tried putting the .swf on in an .htm but RoboHelp crashes. It doesn't crash with other .swf files, but on this one it does.

The file plays fine if I double-click on the .swf inside Windows Explorer, so it seems a problem with RoboHelp.

Now, I can get the video to work inside the project if I copy the .swf file, the .js file, and the swf's .htm file manually copy the project folder. If I preveiw it CTRL + W at this point it works. If I build the project, the .swf and .htm (because I copied them manually) don't get included into the single source layout folder. I can probably add them manually there too and then publish, but there has to be a better way.

Anyone have any success with importing Camtasia .swf files into RH7 and could maybe give me some pointers so i don't have to manually copy files everywhere?

[RoboWizard]

Hi Jared

You probably simply need to add all the related files to your Baggage Files folder.

Note that if your output is a .CHM file, I believe that Camtasia files have a problem with running inside a .CHM. Even if you add all the files.

Cheers... Rick

[Jared Hess · Accepted solution]

Ah yes... baggage files *makes mental note* ... I keep forgetting about those. That seems to work. Thanks Rick.