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[rtrdogs]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a small greeting card site and I want to take some of my movies and put those in Flash as cards.

I don't have FLV encoder capabilities. I edit in Adobe Premiere Pro and when I export out of Adobe, I can make a super large uncompressed AVI that in Flash will produce about a 20-30 MB .swf file for a 45 second clip. Or I can render a decent looking .WMV file in Adobe and I get a really crappy looking .swf in Flash that looks almost pixelated but the file size comes down a bit (not a ton, though).

I've also tried going through Adobe After Effects to create the .swf file and the results aren't much better.

Any help on codecs or whatever else I'm doing wrong is greatly appreciated. Also, will you help give me a perspective on how big is too big for a .swf file size in relation to its length? Like I said, I had a 45 second clip that had a 20 MB .swf file and that's just horrible!

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Richard_N]

45 second clip should be no more that 3-5 meg I would have thought

We dont do much video and have not tried any with Flash 8 yet, but have found sorenson squeeeze the best option with mx2004. Output from premier in quicktime format run it through sorenson output as swf, of fla. depending on need

[creatica]

You must use a proper encoding program to get a good quality video with a small file size.

Try a program called On2 flix pro to encode your flash video - it is very affordable and does an excellent job (or so I'm told) - macromedia even use the same codec developed by on2 in their software.

Let me know how you go...

[too much information]

If it's not to much for you, I would recommend getting the flv encoder. I had a 30 sec. movie that I created in Final Cut that was around 115 MB as a .mov file.

After converting it to a .flv it was around 2 MB and just for kicks I converted it to .m4v for my iPod and that file was 4.5 MB.

In my opinion, .flv is the way to go.