About Digital Video And Flash - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

About digital video and Flash

Flash provides support for several different video codecs, and provides tools for encoding
video into the Flash Video (FLV) format. In general, the preset video encoding profiles
included in the Flash Video Import wizard and the Flash 8 Video Encoder (Flash Professional
only) provide you with the optimum playback quality based on the bandwidth of the
audience you're targeting. If you are using Flash Professional 8, you can also customize your
encoding settings using the advanced encoding settings options available in both the Flash
Video Import wizard and the Flash Video Encoder.
This section contains the following topics:
"Supported file formats for video" on page 278
"About the On2 VP6 and Sorenson Spark video codecs" on page 280
"Comparing the On2 VP6 and Sorenson Spark video codecs" on page 281
"About encoding video" on page 281
"Tips for creating Flash video" on page 282
Supported file formats for video
If you have QuickTime 7 for Apple Macintosh, QuickTime 6.5 for Windows, or DirectX 9 or
later (Windows only) installed on your system, you can import video clips in several file
formats, including MOV, AVI, and MPG/MPEG. You can import linked video clips in MOV
format.
Flash documents with embedded video can be published as SWF files. Flash documents with
linked video must be published in QuickTime format. For more information, see
Linked QuickTime video" on page
The following video file formats are supported for importing embedded video if QuickTime 7
is installed:
File type
Audio Video Interleaved
Digital video
Motion Picture Experts Group
QuickTime video
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Extension
.avi
.dv
.mpg, .mpeg
.mov
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