I am posting this here because there are a lot of helpful and smart people here, and I suspect many of you also have Flash experience.
I am using a 3rd party tool that creates "Flash" video by producing an MP4 AND a SWF. I believe this is referred to as "SWF publishing an MP4" but I may be mistaken on this. At any rate, the SWF is tiny, and I believe its purpose is to wrap the MP4 with a flash player interface.
Unfortunately, there is a problem with this and I hope someone here can help me understand it, and maybe even resolve it. This short MP4 has quite a bit of text in it and it looks quite acceptable when played as a standalone clip using either the Quicktime player or VLS. However, if I play the SWF (which plays the MP4) using the browser's Adobe Flash Player 10 the video is very much degraded. The text has very jagged edges and the whole thing is a bit of a mess.
Interestingly, I can upload the MP4 to Smugmug, and when they do their conversion to SWF it looks fine.
I intend to have this short MP4 looping on my Website's home page so I need to figure out a way to convert this to Flash and retain its quality. This will probably be a one-time or occasional need so I'm hoping to find a solution that is low-cost or free.
So, my questions are:
1. What would be causing the publishing SWF to degrade the quality of the published MP4?
2. Can anyone suggest another way to produce a SWF from my MP4 that maintains quality and is affordable?
/jerry
I am using a 3rd party tool that creates "Flash" video by producing an MP4 AND a SWF. I believe this is referred to as "SWF publishing an MP4" but I may be mistaken on this. At any rate, the SWF is tiny, and I believe its purpose is to wrap the MP4 with a flash player interface.
Unfortunately, there is a problem with this and I hope someone here can help me understand it, and maybe even resolve it. This short MP4 has quite a bit of text in it and it looks quite acceptable when played as a standalone clip using either the Quicktime player or VLS. However, if I play the SWF (which plays the MP4) using the browser's Adobe Flash Player 10 the video is very much degraded. The text has very jagged edges and the whole thing is a bit of a mess.
Interestingly, I can upload the MP4 to Smugmug, and when they do their conversion to SWF it looks fine.
I intend to have this short MP4 looping on my Website's home page so I need to figure out a way to convert this to Flash and retain its quality. This will probably be a one-time or occasional need so I'm hoping to find a solution that is low-cost or free.
So, my questions are:
1. What would be causing the publishing SWF to degrade the quality of the published MP4?
2. Can anyone suggest another way to produce a SWF from my MP4 that maintains quality and is affordable?
/jerry