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Luxo wrote on 12/30/2002, 3:01 PM
That's it...I knew Premiere was good for something. :-)

Luxo
FrancisB wrote on 12/30/2002, 3:04 PM
That's it :) Works very well. Since you have to use Premiere for this fix...why night master the movie file as well, ya know?

Anyway... Im an audio guy (sound designer)... don't wanna act like I know video so well :)

Frank
www.audiovisionsonline.com
Chienworks wrote on 12/30/2002, 3:19 PM
Flash can't export directly to .avi? That's sad. I do my flash design in Swish, and that exports directly to .avi files that Vegas can open.
seeker wrote on 12/30/2002, 7:40 PM
Francis,

Can't Vegas import an Apple QuickTime .MOV directly without running it through Premiere? I haven't done it, but the documentation says Vegas can import QuickTime.

-- seeker --
FrancisB wrote on 12/31/2002, 9:04 AM
Flash can export to avi but I have not been able to import it into Vegas Video.
I believe there is something is the compression scheme that will not allow it.

Flash will also export to QT mov, but again will not open in Vegas Video.

The above is the only way I could make it work.

seeker wrote on 12/31/2002, 1:03 PM
Frank,

Flash can export to avi but I have not been able to import it into Vegas Video.

Actually, it is news to me that Flash can export to AVI. I don't have Flash yet, but I was on the Macromedia site looking at Flash MX's product description and I didn't see anything about AVI being an export format.

Flash will also export to QT mov, but again will not open in Vegas Video.

Well, that was what I was suggesting doing, and I am disappointed to hear that it does not work for some reason. I am wondering if that is some kind of bug in Vegas Video 3. Seems like it might be. SoFo, can we fix that in Vegas 4? Flash into Vegas is something that I will also want to do. And I don't want to have to buy Premiere, although eventually I may do just that thing. But I prefer to stay with Vegas.

-- seeker --
FrancisB wrote on 1/1/2003, 10:40 AM
Flash has always exported to AVI :)

File - Export Movie - AVI

Still will not *import* into Vegas Video.

I work for a studio so I have access to all of the software. I agree, I would not buy premier for the... importing flash trick but, it is the only way I have found it to work. I believe some have had success with using VirtualDub (free) but that did not work for me.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 1/1/2003, 12:30 PM
Well.... I had to try:


Flash 5 exported an avi using microsoft1 codec and Vegas opened it fine. Compressed or uncompressed, 320x240 or 640x480 both looked pretty good and sounded pretty good too.


HTH, MPH
Paul_Holmes wrote on 1/1/2003, 12:42 PM
Kelly, I've tried Swish and love it! What a great program at the price! However, I think I could only get it to export avis at reduced sizes, not 720X480. I was a little disappointed with result since I was hoping to create interesting titles and graphics for my movies, but the exported resolution wasn't satisfactory. Am I missing something or have you been able to get better results.

P.S. for web pages Swish is the cheapest and best way to produce Flash animations (only $40).
Chienworks wrote on 1/1/2003, 1:46 PM
Paul, i've never had a problem exporting from Swish at any resolution. The resulting .avi file is always the same frame size as the project i've created in Swish. Hmmm. Don't know what to tell you.

For those who are curious ... http://www.swishzone.com/
Paul_Holmes wrote on 1/1/2003, 2:42 PM
Well, maybe I need to experiment some more. I think the effect I didn't like was that pictures I zoomed in and out of in Swish, when exported to AVI looked very low res.
Chienworks wrote on 1/1/2003, 2:44 PM
Paul, hmmmmmm. What resolution were the pictures you used? If you zoom in too far, you're going to see pixels. Swish can't add vector-style detail to raster images.
Paul_Holmes wrote on 1/1/2003, 4:57 PM
Well, actually, the demo has expired, so I probably won't buy it unless I really see a need to use it on my web site. Definitely a great program for the web, however.