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Archive for February, 2009
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
In this brief article, we’ll be looking at how to use HTTPS URLs in your Toufee flash movies. Though Toufee flash movies support HTTP and HTTPS URLs, some users run into issues when using hyperlinks in their flash videos. To overcome this problem, we’ll be using a free service called TinyURL, that takes an URL as an input (generally, a lengthy URL, for example, something like http://www.toufee.com/moviemaker/how-to-show-flash-movie-objects-through-a-flash-video/) and converts this into a tiny URL of the form say http://tinyurl.com/dkzsbz (just as the name suggests!).
Before I run you through how to get this working, for those who do not know how to add hyperlinks, I would suggest that you please refer the following KB article that shows how to add hyperlinks when you create a flash video.
http://www.toufee.com/support/index.php?page=kb_view&id=89
Assuming that you are now familiar with adding hyerlinks to your Toufee flash movies, here is how you shorten your URL using TinyURL
- Go to http://www.tinyurl.com
- In the very first page (i.e. the Homepage), you’ll see a textbox that says Enter a long URL to make tiny:
- Enter your URL into the textbox and click on Make TinyURL! button
- You’ll see a new page open with your newly created TinyURL. Copy the new TInyURL
- Switch over to Toufee, select the object for which you wish to add hyperlink, switch to the Advanced tab on the Left Panel, expand Link To – Website / Email option. In the Link To dropdown list, select Website and enter the newly created TinyURL in the URL textbox.
If you ever have problems with using hyperlinks in your flash movies, then try using TinyURL. This feature is also very useful when you want to add HTTPS or very long URLs.
Hope this helps. See you all in my next post!
Ganesh
Tags: create-flash-movie, create-flash-video, flash-movie-maker, free moviemaker, Hyperlinks flash movie, online flash maker, tinyurl
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
Today, we will look at a handy tip that might probably be useful when creating presentation-type flash movies, i.e. for flash videos primarly used for business presentations. We will look at how to show a flash movie object, for example, a text or an image (your company logo perhaps) throughout the entire playing time of the flash movie. Why would you want it that way? Assume you create a flash video about your product and you want your “product logo” or a product tagline to show through the movie. This is also useful when doing a business presentation where you want to have the topic or the “title” to show across all the slides.
While there is no direct way to place a flash movie object on all frames (yes, you can place the same object on all the frames but this increases the movie size), but there is a workaround. For example, if your movie plays for 220 seconds, then set the timing of the text object to 220 seconds and voila, your text will show the entire 220 seconds and that way, we create the effect as though the object was present in all the frames.
Enough said, let’s look at an example. Assuming we have a text object in our movie which we want to show for 220 seconds (i.e. the movie playing time is also assumed to be 220 seconds), then here is what to do
- Select the text, and from the Left Panel (click on the Star icon on the left of your screen if you do not see the Left Panel), select Advanced tab
- Expand Timing (Experts Only) option.
- In the Then Hide it field, select Custom… from the dropdown list box
- Enter the number of seconds (playing time of your movie) in the Hide After: field (see screenshot below)
- Click Save button on the top right to save the changes
That’s it. Your text should now show throughout your flash movie play. It’s just a matter of extending the timing of the object.
Hope this was useful. As always, please forward all your queries, suggestions and concerns to help@toufee.com.
Till next time, God bless!
Ganesh
Tags: Add new tag, create-flash-video, fre moviemaker, make flash movies, Online-Flash-movie-maker
Posted in Flash Tips, Toufee 2.0, Toufee Tips | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
We’ve just finished adding additional formats to which you can now export flash movies created with Toufee. The top priority were the MOV and FLV formats as we got a number of requests for the same. Some users also did wish to export their flash videos to WMV. Without dissapointing any of them, we’ve added support to all these formats and in addition, we added MP4 support as well!
Very quickly, here is how to convert your flash movies to MOV, FLV, WMV etc
- Submit your flash movie for YouTube conversion (Publish -> Export to YouTube option), yes, you heard us right, its YouTube conversion. As a first step, your flash movie needs to be converted to the AVI format. The AVI file is then converted to one of the target formats (MOV, FLV, WMV) which you’ll see in the steps that follow
- You’ll receive an email that your flash movie is ready to download. The email will look similar to this. Watch the last few lines closely though as you will now see a link that allows you to download the movie in MOV format.
- When you click on the MOV link in the email, a new page will open with the message that your request for MOV conversion has been acccepted. You will receive an email with the link to download your MOV file when it is ready. If MOV conversion is all that you need, then that is it. However, there is one more step you need to do if you are converting to FLV, MOV or MP4 formats
- To convert to FLV, WMV and MP4 formats, you simply take the MOV link (shown in previous step) from the email and append the following parameter to the MOV link
“&filetype=flv” (without quotes)
So for example, if your MOV link is
http://toufee.com/commoncgi/addmovrequest.pl?userID=56&proj=promobanner&domain=toufee.com
then your FLV movie link would be just that with the “&filetype=flv” appended at the end of the URL.
http://toufee.com/commoncgi/addmovrequest.pl?userID=56&proj=promobanner&domain=toufee.com&filetype=flv
Once you paste the above URL in a browser window, you’ll get a similar confirmation page (as in step 3), this time however your movie will be queued for FLV conversion. The same applies to WMV and MP4, i.e. you simply need to change the value in the filetype parameter to wmv or mp4.
Hope this helps. Should you have any questions, please leave a Support Ticket by going to http://www.toufee.com/support/ and click on Submit a Support Ticket hyperlink.
See you all. Till next time.
Ganesh
Tags: convert flash movie, convert to MOV, export flash movie MOV, export flash movie to FLV
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