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we have a client that has sent us a tv ad, that we have converted into flash. We want to publish it in the website's home, and make it dissapear just when the video has finished (20 seconds), by just hiding itself, or maybe narrowing an table or so. We are not sure of what it is usually used in this cases.
After this, a gif file of the advertiser should be shown.
It is something like i.e. Yahoo doe in Yahoo! home with videos.
Do you know what should we use/do? How?
Maybe using a layer and make it dissapear or using DHTML.
Well, I ask for your advice, thanks a lot.
Why not simply add the image(s) to the end of the flash and stop frames or in the case of an animated gif create a quick loop at the end of the flash.
Make the flash itself appear to diminish or hide by making it appear like the background of your page and then have the gif image inserted into the flash. It will seem like the flash disappeared and the image took it's place. Your trying to overcomplicate a simple situation. Then again your talking about placing flash on a homepage so i'm just going to stay out of this one.
Anyway, what I am trying to achieve is not new, I usually see many advertising campaigns with big flash -.flv - videos that appear in the middle of an html page, and when the video has finished the add dissapears creating an effect that seems to the user that the video "has gone" inside a banner (image) that doesn't have to be in the same place of the video (maybe in the top, for example).
Anyway, if I find an example of what I mean I'll post it here.
Sometimes, "overcomplicating" marks de difference in the positive way - mainly for advertisers -, if talking about advertising campaigns in a portal site.
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