1 min video followed by regular flash movie(?)

[wownflutter]

Hi Folks

Im looking for some insight.

I am planning on having 1 minute of video (in flash) with a narrarator asking a question... this followed by a 3 minute flash animation answering the question with charts and graphics.

What is the best way to go about creating this and "stitching" the two sections together?

All insight welcome :-)

[rippazinc]

post or send the files so i get a taste of what you're wrking w/

[wownflutter]

Well, simply put it is up to me to make it happen.

I have sentence as a problem and a bunch of charts and data as an answer.

I would like to have a talking head introduce the problem for 1 minute max followed by a continued flash movie of chart and graphs explaining an answer.

(I have a miniDV camera which will have to do)

I hope this helps, cause Im still trying to figure this out.

Basically, I am in search of a process in which to have a simple way to show the minute (or less) video and that would run into the flash movie answer demonstration.


Thx!

[rippazinc]

okay, then what are you using to play the video in flash? embeded fla, or media player component?

for embeded fla, i suggest finding the time of the first video, then using a wait function to go to the next video after that time. i know something about that so tell me if you need help

if you're using the media playback component, i'm not an expert, but there are several properties that can measure the current time & total time of the media. set up an onEnterFrame / if (current time = total time) type thing to test if playback is done, and if so, go to the next movie

[wownflutter]

Thanks for the reply

I was thinking to get the best quality for download time ratio... the media player was cool.

But, then the component would have to be present and I want a kind of seamless running between the video introduction and the answer graphics with no component showing.

So, perhaps Im better off with an embedded video into fla approach... but wouldn't that be a significantly larger file?

Let me know what you think, as the question will be only about 1 read sentence long.

Is there a significant file size difference or is the use of the media component easy, light and high quality?

Thx

[rippazinc]

although the component will allow for a smaller video file size, the component itself is so hefty that the embed flv's wont be much bigger. it's your call, about what you know more about. also, i think the component looks a lot cooler than just plain video
if you choose to use embeded flv, then i can help you but you're on your own w/ the components

[wownflutter]

Thx rippazinc

I will try a test with both methods and see how it goes... with six Q&A flash movies I think it is worth my exploring a bit more.

So, if you have a second, love to hear your insight into embedding video and then having the explanation flash follow it automatically.

Again.... big thanks!

[wownflutter]

So, Is there an easy way to have flv play and then immediately have another movie play afterwards?

What kind of a process should I follow to make this happen?

Thx

[wownflutter]

no takers....

[hupsohl]

I did something similar to this a long time ago. I made each video its own .swf file and on the last frame of each I did a _root.gotoAndPlay to the next section on the main timeline. Each video's .swf is loaded at the appropriate time using loadMovie, and on the frames where those .swf's get loaded, just use a stop() action (when the video is done playing, it will resume play on the main timeline from the gotoAndPlay command in the last frame of the loaded .swf). Hope that makes sense and is helpful.

[wownflutter]

Yeah... that sounds smart.

Now, is there a way for an flv to end and trigger another movie?