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01-21-2011, 08:12 PM
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  Old  SWF files not working

Hi,

I'm new in this forum and also quite inexperienced in web designing. I actually have the page itself looking as I intended but the one thing that has been driving me crazy for a week(!) are the flash videos. I need a flash video/animation to autoplay when you load the page, when the flash video ends, it should start over again (loop or autoRewind?) and maybe if possible also have nice playback buttons too that appear only when you hover over the flash video.

Anyway I use After Effects to create the animation and then render it out to an .flv file, then import the video and load external video with playback components with Flash and then export .swf from Flash and then import .swf to my php file in Dreamweaver.

Then I open the php file in Firefox (from my hard drive) and what I get is just a white box with nothing in it, when I load the files on the server I recieve also just a white box. No errors or anything and when I open the swf with a flash player, it plays nicely and even shows the playback controls that were added with Adobe Flash. All the flash file components and scripts are in the webpage root folder so that can't be the problem.

First thing I wanted to make clear is that am I doing everything correctly? Are the file types mentioned correct for this kind of situation and is the whole process logical?

If not, then please guide me on the right path, because when I googled I somehow got more confused as I learned that there are very many ways of how to present flash on web.

My second concern is that how can there be 3 programs that are all made by Adobe and I even own all newest versions (CS5) and I am struggling to get things to work. I really hope it's my own stupidity, not a developers bug or something like that.

Oh and by the way, I got it to work on my hard drive somehow by using AE export to swf function (and skipping the Adobe Flash), on the server it showed that I need a newer version of flash, even if I downloaded the newest version four times. BUT the AE export to flash is not an option even if it worked on the server because the file is like 22mb large when exported in high quality and in low quality it is 13mb large so WAY to big for a simple website.

It's a long and confusing post, but I really need this thing working and I really hope that I'm just stupid and that's an easy fix. If needed I can copy the codes/action scripts etc too but since they are created by programs, not me (regarding the flash part), I don't think that would make a difference.


Big Thanks!