[Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Steven
Been a long time since I have had to make a cross platform CDROM, or even a CDROM at all to be honest. Anyway I have developed a series of educational games with Flash CS3, with the main packaged file packaged with MDM Zinc (to enable me to have a coloured background outside the stage area). I wou

Re: [Flashcoders] Timeline Streaming Sounds Playing Early?

2009-10-21 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
If you need the timeline animation to match its ending to the sounds ending, you will need to script your sound and not put it on a actual frame. Then have a function that matches the beginning of your animation to the beginning of your sound and not play anything till both are loaded. Also

Re: [Flashcoders] Timeline Streaming Sounds Playing Early?

2009-10-21 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Actually you have to put a "stopAllsounds" on the frame that is after the end of your animation. Or you can set the frame to sync to the event instead of the stream. Flash does not sync the stream of an animation and a sound well because of the difference in compression ratios. This has bee

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Atleast that is how we did it for the Bank of America jumbotrons. Karl Sent from losPhone On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:07 PM, jonathan howe wrote: My experience with SWF to Video is that it's using a pretty low-tech solution - essentially it stepped through your movie one frame at a time and c

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
If you want to make a video of a swf, export as an animation first (it is one of the options when exporting) and then bring that into final cut or similar and then export it as a QuickTime using your choice of codec. You should be able to retain all of the elements from your swf that way.

RE: [Flashcoders] Timeline Streaming Sounds Playing Early?

2009-10-21 Thread Kurt Dommermuth
Hi Kerry, I'm not the original poster, but I'll add myself to the list of people who've experienced this. It's definitely a bug and it's been around for some time. More details than that would take too long for a family man to put together, but it's not hard to reproduce. In the typical scenari

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread jared stanley
CS4 works well, i just used this on a project (I think this was even working in CS3). On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:07 PM, jonathan howe wrote: > My experience with SWF to Video is that it's using a pretty low-tech > solution - essentially it stepped through your movie one frame at a time and > ca

[Flashcoders] swfs always open in Flash IDE (snow leopard)

2009-10-21 Thread Joe Minkiewicz
Some time after upgrading to 10.6 all swfs automatically open in the CS4 IDE when I double click from the finder. I can do a Get Info and change the default for each file but the Change All button is grayed out. I've tried to do a google search but no luck as I'm not exactly sure what to search for

RE: [Flashcoders] Timeline Streaming Sounds Playing Early?

2009-10-21 Thread Kerry Thompson
Dave Dev wrote: > I have a frame with a stop actionscript command. The next frame has a > streaming sounds and a frame label. At runtime, Flash stops at the stop > command frame, but then plays a very brief portion of the streaming sound in > the next frame. Placing some frames in between the sou

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread jonathan howe
My experience with SWF to Video is that it's using a pretty low-tech solution - essentially it stepped through your movie one frame at a time and captured & encoded that frame. So, it tended to not work well on MovieClips, scripted animation, etc. A great tool for, say, converting a popular cartoon

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread Ashim D'Silva
Pretty sure CS4 handles it fine. Including actionscripted animation. Haven't pushed it hard, but worth a shot. Cheers, Ashim The Random Lines My online portfolio www.therandomlines.com 2009/10/21 Joel Stransky : > Ok, I'm well aware of the limitation in exporting an .fla to quicktime. You > o

Re: [Flashcoders] 2.5D playing cards - how to restore original image?

2009-10-21 Thread Ashim D'Silva
Hey Alex, Once you've used a 3D feature, it has something like cacheAsBitmap turned on internally that doesn't go off. You have to clear the 3d matrix once you don't need it anymore. mc.transform.matrix3D = null; If I remember right, this will reset everything, so before you do it, remember all

[Flashcoders] 2.5D playing cards - how to restore original image?

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I have a game with nice detailed playing cards (the only nice graphics in my app) which can be dragged around. On the MOUSE_DOWN event I add a shadow to filters and set scaleX = scaleY = 1.2. And on MOUSE_UP I remove shadow and set scaleX = scaleY = 1. Now I've decided to try the new 3D-f

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread kennethkawam...@gmail.com
CS4 feature list says: QuickTime export Render content published in a SWF file as a QuickTime video using the advanced QuickTime exporter. Export content that includes nested MovieClips, content generated with ActionScript language, and runtime effects such as drop shadow and blur. ...however pe

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, maybe this? http://www.swfkits.com/swf_to_video/ regards JC On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Joel Stransky wrote: > Ok, I'm well aware of the limitation in exporting an .fla to quicktime. You > only get the main timeline, no sub clips or scripted animation. What I'm > asking is if there's s

[Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread Joel Stransky
Ok, I'm well aware of the limitation in exporting an .fla to quicktime. You only get the main timeline, no sub clips or scripted animation. What I'm asking is if there's some new product on the market that has tackled this issue successfully. So far is looks like a screen reader is the way to go, I