Importing .avi from Flash 5.0

tadpole wrote on 10/7/2002, 1:09 AM
Trying to figure out how (& best way) to get a macromedia flash movie into vegas.

Flash 5.0 has the option of exporting to .avi
(i'm not attempting to import .swf for the record of course)

Made a quick animation, exported as 720x480 29 fps .avi - gave it a quick preview in MS Mediaplayer, and everything looked good.
But - after i imported the .avi file into vv3, it just previews/plays as a still image of the first frame?

Hoping someone is familar with this topic and can save me some time trying to figure it out.

thanks!

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vicmilt wrote on 10/7/2002, 9:18 AM
had the same problem -
export your animation as numbered jpeg files, into a separate folder.
then import into Vegas - everything is automatic.
tadpole wrote on 10/8/2002, 2:56 PM
Ewww... doesn't sound fun.

Strange that WM can play the exported flash .avi fine, but vegas can't.
There's gotta be a way to convert/format the flash .avi file to work in
vegas - I'll post here if i ever find a way

till then, thanks for the work-around vicmilt!
DavidBird wrote on 10/10/2002, 7:35 PM
Tadpole,
I had the same problem...discovered that VV3 won't "play" a Flash 5 avi...apparently there is a compression requirement....I fired up Swish 2, did a movie in it, exported as an avi with a Cinepak by Radius compression....worked like a champ... The problem I've encountered (which I have posted for assistance..)is this compression may not be the right selection...the movie I made has a couple of circle graphics...when I import the avi I made in Swish into VV3, the circles look more like ovals...If I can get this cured, the Swish/VV3 combo will be a great creative tool(s)...
Regards - db
mikelant wrote on 10/11/2002, 11:04 AM

Last night I was playing around with this. I used the microsoft codec to export my AVI movie from Flash MX. It worked great! I selected tha avi file from the Vegas explorer with no problems. Is the microsoft codec not suitable (quality wise) for what you are trying to do?
tadpole wrote on 10/13/2002, 6:47 PM
Thinking there's a little discrepency between the avi format flash 5 exports and the way Vegas reads avi formats.(bug probably fixed in MX)

Think i figured out a quick fix though -
I simply opened the avi file flash5 exported in VirtualDub, then selected 'save as avi'
(without adding any filters etc)

The re-saved file plays fine in vegas

david - regards to the disorted images aspects - think this is due to pixel aspect ratio issues - swish is probably using square pixels and DV NTSC uses rectangle pixels, i believe VV will 'strech/squish' the imported footage to fit the rectangle pixels (called out by your project settings)

Maybe try changing composition size in swish/flash to 655x480?

I'm new at this so i might be wrong but think i'm on the right track.
-t