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2. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
reindeer4 Oct 2, 2011 5:51 PM (in response to JSS1138)Hey Jim -
I tried posting there as well as I'd seen a similar question referred in that direction, but thought I'd try here too since I haven't heard anything back on the Flash forums and this topic clearly overlaps both programs.
Also, I'm willing to try a non-flash solution as well (such as using encore if that's a possibility).
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3. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
Stan Jones Oct 2, 2011 6:10 PM (in response to reindeer4)Did you follow the information here?
This is CS5; I don't think it changed, but check the CS4 version.
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4. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
reindeer4 Oct 2, 2011 9:59 PM (in response to Stan Jones)Reading through that, the closest thing I see to what I want is that if you export in QuickTime (not flv format), you can then use sequence markers to trigger the opening of a web page automatically (as opposed to in response to a user click).
This does work but it's not really what I'm after.
(As a side note to anyone who might be interested - while uncompressed Quicktime movies may be unworkably slow to load, and lowering the quality in the Media encoder does NOT decreate the file size if you leave the Video Codec set at its default (for me at least) of DV/DVCPRO-NTSC, if you change to h.264 you can drop your file size several orders of magnitude.)
Not sure if there was something else in that link that would pertain to flvs that I missed - if so, please let me know.
Thanks
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5. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
Stan Jones Oct 2, 2011 10:22 PM (in response to reindeer4)Not sure if there was something else in that link that would pertain to flvs that I missed - if so, please let me know.
All that I see that you can do in PR is to include the cue points. So this part seemed relevant:
"Sequence markers in clips exported from Premiere Pro appear as cue points in Adobe Flash projects if they contain text in their Chapter fields. The cue point data in the Chapter field of a sequence marker in Premiere Pro will be encoded as XML. For the XML protocol required, see Flash Help.
Note: You must add text to a chapter marker in Adobe Premiere Pro for that chapter marker to appear as a cue point in Adobe Flash projects."
Are you getting the cue points in flash?
The actions you scripted in flash not working would seem to me to be flash, not Premiere.
The option in Encore is described here:
I find the Encore flash output limiting, compared to just using a Premiere exported flv and flash itself. And it appears to me that the url is only accessed by clicking a menu button.
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6. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
reindeer4 Oct 3, 2011 6:16 AM (in response to Stan Jones)Hey Stan - I have used Cue Points a bunch within my flash site so that flv's can trigger other actions/events. But what I'm looking to do here is include active links in my flv videos so that if they're playing outside of my site (say on YouTube or Vimeo or some other place), people will be able to click on a button or section of highlighted text (created as a Title in PremPro) and have that click take them to my site or to another site I reference in the video.
Not sure if CuePoints can help with that.
And I'm still not clear if Encore lets you do this for flv's, particularly as the urls will not be in the same domain as the video.
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7. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
Stan Jones Oct 3, 2011 8:56 AM (in response to reindeer4)Not sure if CuePoints can help with that.
I don't think Premiere can do that, and cue points is as much help as it will be. So the question becomes whether any flv will do what you want when played in one of the players you describe. I would search for that information. Many such videos get retranscoded anyway, right?
And I'm still not clear if Encore lets you do this for flv's, particularly as the urls will not be in the same domain as the video.
I think the answer is no. It creates a button (which I assumed was in a menu, not a movie) which the user could click to be taken to a url. I don't think it needed to be the same domain?
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8. Re: Need help getting links to work from an FLV exported from Premiere Pro
reindeer4 Oct 3, 2011 9:13 AM (in response to Stan Jones)Yeah, starting to think there may not be a great solution. And it looks like the Encore weblink is more of a shortcut for building a flash site / swf as opposed to adding a live link to an flv. Thanks for your help, though. It is appreciated.



