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Flash to looping DVD
Has anyone managed to create a loop of a Flash animation on a DVD?
I have a whole raft of software available but nothing works!
The shortest method, in theory, is to export the movie in Flash to avi, and then use VSO's ConvertXtoDVD - this even has a loop setting in the Authoring tab, but it does not loop when I play it. And it (from the demo version) did not even run on a domestic DVD player. Grrrr.
I have also tried Adobe Premiere Standard (got it with a Sony laptop) - that converts the AVI to MPEG2 and then using a Sony-provided utility to burn the DVD - but that has no loop option. The only solution was to repeat the clip a few times - to give say 15 minutes of playing time.
Any useful tips?!!!
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
Hi Simon
Why don't you export the movie as a .mov (real player) which you can do directly from the Flash publish option window.
As for looping, set up the loop within Flash. On your last frame add:
gotoAndPlay(1);
This will continously loop the movie, irrespective of the player options.
Hope this helped.
Egg
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
Finally got around to trying this; thanks Egg.
Yes, the mov happily loops but the two tools for writing it to DVD don't like it - Click to DVD (Sony) and ConvertXtoDVD (VSO). The latter says the mov file has no video stream ;)
The avi from Flash does not loop.
Both DVD tools will accept the AVI but neither allow you to tell it to loop!
The only other poss I can think of is that some DVD players may allow you to loop the DVD.
Good job I have some hair left.
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
Sorry I couldn't be of further help Simon, I've never gotten into movie production.
Egg
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
There is a lot of free software on the web for doing such a thing. There is even an article by Macromedia how to do it. Just use google or your favorite search engine.
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
James
Thanks... I found this http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/fla..._video_06.html for example; I did once try Quicktime which has a loop option. The problem was that when I burnt the DVD it no longer looped. I tried all sorts of combinations of Flash export formats, video editing software and then DVD burning software.
In the end I repeated the exported avi 5 times, wrote it to the DVD and the client set the player on repeat.
It was for a karaoke bar to show on their screens when nothing else was happening.
If you can solve this, it would be a great help for next time.
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
I just made a DVD with a looping animation. Used a quicky GIF and converted it to a Flash Sprite. Exported the SWF and used Nero Burning Rom.
I used "make a Data DVD" option and it did well.
I haven't tried a MOV, AVI or WMV file. But I don't think it would make much of a difference.
The only thing I can figure is that the original movie you made didn't have looping animation.
The only solution I can think of is to import the AVI into Flash as individual frames (convert to jpeg or some other format), then convert the project as a sprite which then can be looped. If it's a big movie it might choke your computer a bit as it will create hundreds of frames.
Forgot to add, if you use AVI files they must be converted to DVD compliant MPEG-2 files. Some major DVD manufactures offer looping of videos, some less expensive DVD's won't do that.
But there again, you exported flash, I would bet that the original avi file wasn't looping.
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
James
"I used "make a Data DVD" option and it did well." may be the key point - as long as a DVD player - rather than a computer-based DVD player - will run it.
The animation was simply done in Flash - I did not need to import to it.
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
I suppose one could make a splash screen for the DVD and give the option for computer users to use a chapter menu.
Perhaps may work for some stand alone DVD players if they are up to current standards.
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Re: Flash to looping DVD
try this converter by geovid
it allows flash to all video formats conversion