6 Replies Latest reply: Oct 15, 2009 5:58 PM by mrpeterk1 RSS

    Work on animated skin

    rudo_fr Community Member

      Hello,

       

      How is it possible to redesign and animate default encore export flash skin (flashDVD.swf during video playback)? is it possible with Catalyst or Flash ?

      What are  files we have to change in encore roots folder (xlm,html,swf) to insert new design and interactiv skin during video playback?

      My project is to design my own animated skin for flash export in encore cs4.

      For the moment in encore we only have this skin: flashdvd.swf (see attached file) when we export our project for flash.

      This skin looks like dvd interactive panel, but i would like to add new interactiv button, a way to change loading video position.

       

      I didn't find any informations about that in encore's documentations and it seems to me an very important creativ part.

       

       

      Thanks a lot and sorry for my english,

       

      Rudo_fr

        • 1. Re: Work on animated skin
          Full Throttle1 Community Member

          You cannot change the SWF unless you have Flash project file (.FLA) with you. Otherwise you will have to rewrite the complete SWF code that plays FlashDVD.

          • 2. Re: Work on animated skin
            mrpeterk1 Community Member

            Hi,

              Can you elaborate on what you meant.  I have a FlashDVD.swf  I made with Enocre CS4 and I want to somehow change the default Encore player to include a scroll bar.  I have Flash CS4 and I'm making a flash website for myself. I tried importing the FlashDVD.swf  with no success.  All I would like is to have a scroll bar added to the player...

             

             

             

                Thanks inadvance for the help,

                      Peter

            • 3. Re: Work on animated skin
              Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

              There was a fairly recent post on the same topic. I think it was just before the sub-fora were rolled into one, and was probably then in the Flash sub-forum.

               

              I do not recall the resolution, but there was discussion. I also do not recall the folk, who replied. I'd do a Search of this forum for "skin" and it will likely pop up. Perhaps there are more, but I do not recall those.

               

              Also, maybe Full Throttle can solve your need, and then this will be the definitive post on the subject.

               

              Good luck,

               

              Hunt

              • 4. Re: Work on animated skin
                Full Throttle1 Community Member

                You cannot change the SWF file in Encore. SWF file is created using a Flash project (.FLA) which is not available for users. Only option is to write a Flash project and generate a new SWF which may not be worth the effort.

                • 5. Re: Work on animated skin
                  Mylenium CommunityMVP

                  You would have to decompile the Flash file (which may be against the license agreement) into an editable FLA and then make sense of the code. I doubt that this would be very sensible. Unless Adobe themselves provide the template, there is no way to change any of that. Of course you still could write your own player from scratch. After all the XML is human readable and the actual clips are just standard FLV files...

                   

                  Mylenium

                  • 6. Re: Work on animated skin
                    mrpeterk1 Community Member

                    Thanks for all the info guys..