import flash into Media 100i
by Greg
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Sep 13, 2006 at 7:29:28 pm
Is there a way to take a client's flash animation and video and import it into Media 100i 8.2.1 to edit? What's the best way? Do I need to have the client convert it to Quicktime on their end? Thanks.
Re: import flash into Media 100i by Kieran Matthew on Sep 14, 2006 at 1:16:14 pm
Hi Greg,
You can download a freeware screen recorder (silverscreen recorder springs to mind, but there are others) and use that to capture the flash animation (by playing it in say Safari) to QT.
Re: import flash into Media 100i by Ajmetz on Sep 16, 2006 at 11:25:56 am
I wasn't gonna respond to this, as I thought my method might be archaic, and take too long.
But two points:
When at Uni, 1999-2003, we were always told you could import Quicktime, or Shockwave Flash straight into Media100. This was when the Uni had Media100i 7.5, and Flash was up to version 5. I believe it referred to swf files, and not fla files.
I never tried this however.
What I used to do instead was one of two approaches:
I had Flash 5 myself on my PC,
so any animation I had done, I could export to an uncompressed AVI.
Then I could import the AVI into Media100.
I say two approaches, because at first, I used to export a Bitmap Image Sequence from Flash, and then use Rad Video Tools's Bink Video, to collate these into a single AVI, and then burn to CD, and take into Uni to import into Media100. But then a bit later, I discovered I could export straight to AVI from Flash 5 itself.
Now we're up to Flash 8, I'm not sure what the options are.
But I would assume Flash 8 would still allow you to export a flash animation as a movie of some kind.
The only problem with image sequences or uncompressed AVIs, is they take a lot of hard drive space, and a lot of time to import into M100.
Most of my animations were around 1minute, and would take a Gig or two to export, and then a 15min wait to import.
Like I said, there are probably easier ways out there.
Just surprised no one more knowledgable has posted a better suggestion.
If the client is able to convert it to quicktime at their end, that's gonna be better overall, isn't it?
I assume they could open their project up in Flash, and export to any format, though I'd have to check up on the latest version to see what the options are.
