Preview image of flash videos

[caesarem]

Hi.

Is there a way to take a preview image/thumbnail from a flashvideo? Thanks a lot,

CAESAREM

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There are two ways to do this that I know.

If you are looking for the video to show an image before someone hits play all you have to do is create an image at the beginning of your video and it will display until someone hits play.

For example, I create my videos in Final Cut. I place an image in the first frame then build my movie after that and and convert it to an .flv file.

Or, you can place an image on the first frame of your flash movie. Add your movie on frames 1 and 2 below the image and change the parameters for the movie to autoplay = "no" and give it an instance name of "Movie". Then in your actionscript window for frame 2 put "stop();" this will stop the flash movie from looping over and over. Then add a button on the stage with the actionscript "Movie.play();" as an onClick event.

Hope this helps.

*added: You will need to add the "stop();" to frame one and probably add a gotoandplay to make the movie go to frame 2 and play the video.

[Dalgar]

if you are looking for an automated server-side solution, try using ffmpeg.