Create Movie in webpage tutorial

[webdiva]

I just downloaded Flash MX Pro 2004 and am a total novice. Where is there a good website for me to cut to the chase and get my 6 minute movie set up onto a webpage? Macromedia doesn't have a good tutorial for this function. I would like to know how to create the webpage and import the movie into it. I have the download on a 30 day trial, which is all I need it for now. Any guidance would be welcomed.

Thanks,
Jo Ann

[poab]

Do you mean publishing?

'File > publish settings' give you your options: Which version of the flash player to publish for etc.

'File > Publish' will publish your file: If left at the default settings you'll get a .swf and a .html file containing the markup needed.

Take a look at the thread about flash and validation on this forum if you're concerned about that.

cheers.

[webdiva]

Thank you for your reply. I have finally got the publishing figured out, but the pixels are so large, the result look terrible. Also, I haven't been able to produce an HTML file to integrate the flash. I have an .fla file only. How do you do that? The Macromedia tutorials don't tell the whole picture, so I'm left stranded on how to proceed.

Thanks for your help.

Originally Posted by poab

Do you mean publishing?

'File > publish settings' give you your options: Which version of the flash player to publish for etc.

'File > Publish' will publish your file: If left at the default settings you'll get a .swf and a .html file containing the markup needed.

Take a look at the thread about flash and validation on this forum if you're concerned about that.

cheers.

[poab]

If you've got publishing figured out then you haven't just got a .fla, you've got something else because publishing will create at least one file in the same folder as your .fla: What that file is depends on the options you have selected but the defaults are a .swf and .html.

If you now open that .html in a browser it will show the .swf embedded in the page. The .swf is the part that you see online. The .fla is justused for authoring. It's like photoshop working as .psd but saving for web as .gif/.jpg/.png etc.

As for pixels...flash is vector based so there shouldn't be any quality issue unless you're importing a bitmap.


All of this is covered in the tutorials in the help section (at least it was in MX, I haven't looked at the help in Mx 2004).

cheers.

[webdiva]

Originally Posted by poab

If you've got publishing figured out then you haven't just got a .fla, you've got something else because publishing will create at least one file in the same folder as your .fla: What that file is depends on the options you have selected but the defaults are a .swf and .html.

If you now open that .html in a browser it will show the .swf embedded in the page. The .swf is the part that you see online. The .fla is justused for authoring. It's like photoshop working as .psd but saving for web as .gif/.jpg/.png etc.

As for pixels...flash is vector based so there shouldn't be any quality issue unless you're importing a bitmap.


All of this is covered in the tutorials in the help section (at least it was in MX, I haven't looked at the help in Mx 2004).

cheers.

Hi again,
Thanks for the info. I have gone through all the tutorials of MX 2004, and I cannot get the answers to these questions.

I have the swf and html files, unfortunately, the html won't open in the browser, it gets stuck somehow... the bar at the bottom of the browser doesn't progress. I didn't see where I had an option on which format the file would be published into. I can open it in Dreamweaver and get this coding:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="SailorsLog" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="SailorsLog.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="SailorsLog.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="SailorsLog" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></embed>
</object>

I cannot see the avi movie except when I open an fla file in Flash. The video image is terrible... large pixels. I didn't have any option on how to resize it. Playing it back on the Stage after importing is fine, but publishing is terrible quality. What am I doing wrong?

Also, how can I see the playback in the HTML?

Thanks for your help.