You might have encoutered the “Add Frame Error” when trying to convert  your Toufee flash movies to AVI or MPG or when uploading them to YouTube using Toufee ProConvertor software. This usually indicates not having the latest Desktop Flash Player and the required Flash ActiveX for your browser. We will be soon porting the Toufee Pro Convertor software to a server-based program which means you do not require any software to convert your flash movies to AVI or MPG video, but for the meantime, please use the following updates.

Please install the latest Desktop Flash Player along with the Flash ActiveX plugin by downloading these from the following URLs

http://www.toufee.com/flash/plugin.exe
http://www.toufee.com/flash/activex.exe

Make sure you clear your browser cache before installing the above updates.

Also make sure you have the latest Toufee Pro Convertor which can be downloaded from http://pro.toufee.com/downloads/setup.exe

Toufee Pro flash movies can be used to make great Autorun CDs which can be used for a variety of applications like custom-made birthday CD specially for a friend, a corporate flash presentation, video tutorials, etc.

 Step 1: Export your flash movies to SWF
This is the most basic step, you have to get your Toufee Pro flash movies from Toufee’s server onto your PC. The step by step procedure of exporting flash movies to SWF has been covered in the following blog post.
http://www.toufee.com/moviemaker/download-toufee-flash-movies-as-swf-files/

Step 2:  Convert your SWF file into an EXE
Autorun files need to be EXE to work. Your SWF flash movie needs to be converted into a self-executable EXE file so that it runs automatically when the CD is loaded without having to launch another program to open it (which is generally the case with a SWF file).There are a number of free utilities that can convert your SWF file to an EXE. One such program called SWF to EXE 3.0 from Brothersoft can be downloaded from this UR
http://www.brothersoft.com/d.php?soft_id=58065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feurotest.chat.ru%2Ffi%2Fswftoexe.zip

Step 3: Create the AUTORUN.INF configuration file
An autorun CD contains the AUTORUN.INF configuration file that contains information on what program needs to be launched when the CD is inserted. The format of the autorun.inf file is as below

[autorun]
OPEN=FlashFile.exe
ICON=Icon.ico

Open a blank Notepad file, type the above lines (replace FlashFile.exe with the name of our flash movie exe file that you just created). The ICON.ico is for if you want the CD drive to display a specific icon file you’ve included, if not leave that line out. Save this file as “Autorun.inf”

Step 4: Burn the files to CD
Copy the flash movie .exe file and the autorun.inf (that you created in the last step) and burn them onto a blank CD. Please make sure that you put both the .exe and .inf files in the root of the CD. Once the data is tranfered, test the CD and your Toufee flash movie should now popup automatically – looks cool isn’t it?

Toufee Pro’s most popular feature, besides the hundreds of new preset effects, enhancements and new options is the ability to export flash movies to standalone SWF files which allows your flash movies to be played independently on any PC or Mac platform without the need to access Toufee Pro MovieMaker.

[If you are unsure how to export Toufee flash movies to SWF, please refer the following Toufee Blog article http://www.toufee.com/moviemaker/download-toufee-flash-movies-as-swf-files/]

Running SWF files on PC

1. SWF (Shockwave Flash) files can be opened by an standard browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Opera etc., Simply drag and drop the SWF file into a browser window and the SWF file will automatically play.

2. SWF can also be run standalone if you have converted the SWF files into EXE files, I’ll cover more on this in the next post.

3. Some SWF files (like Toufee Pro flash movies) require that you have the latest Adobe Flash 9 plugin to run properly. While most browsers do have the latest flash plugin installed automatically, it is always advisable to have this downloaded from the following URL
www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=shockwaveFlash

Problems running SWF files
The most common problem with running SWF file is directly related to not having the latest Adobe Flash plugin. Installing the latest flash plugin resolves this most of the time. In some cases, a corrupt SWF file may also not run properly, and this can be corrected by redownloading the file.

Ganesh