[Bandersnatch]

Our Medical Illustration dept has a flash animation with a background picture (a human heart) and animated sprites that move around to represent blood flow. The file will open in Quicktime (4.1.2) but only the sprites are visible on a blue background. The illustration was created in Flash 4, but saving in Flash 3 format made no difference.

Is there a secret here?

Thanks for your help.

[Bandersnatch]

The other issue here is that the animation displays fine when opened in Netscape with the QT plugin set to handle .swf (Flash) files. IE works fine too, but I'm not sure which plugin is being used.

The QT Player is handling something different ly than the plugin, and the background picture is not shown.

We're using QT 4.1.2 and Flash 4 on NT.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have also been experiencing anomolies with flash embedded in quicktime files...specifically import a quicktime movie into flash 4, extend out your timeline to allow all the video to appear....now make a new layer and place a transparent instance of a button somewhere over the video...assign this an action to jump to a new url. Publish this out as a quicktime movie so that the flash layer is transparent above the quicktime layer. This works fine in the player but occasionally crashes....now try pulling it up off a server using netscape 4.6 or above on the mac (with quicktime 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 plugin) using http streaming...try to start clicking in the button area as its loading and it will definitely crash netscape and kill the sound manager on your mac....ie 4.5 is just as basd, ie 5 is actually a bit better only crashing occassionally. I have replicated this on several machines running 9.0, 9.04, netscape 4.6, 4.72, ie 4.5, ie 5.0 quicktime 4.1, 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 trying to eliminate this problem..any one who has any tips on this please please post it here! Thanks!

almost forgot....using sorenson developer codec 2.1 for video and qdesign music for audio....

Bandersnatch...for your problem, if you have the pro version of quicktime, check and make sure the layer is transparent for the sprites and that it is above the video layer....you can also check these settings under quicktime publish settings in flash....if that still doesnt work, try exporting out to a flattened quicktime movie...instead of a non flattened...if you want to server this on a web site youll have to do this anyway....the file will play fine locally in a web browser as the quicktime plug in can handle local referenced movies (ie movies that have tracks that reside elsewhere on your drive) but their is no mechanism or way for this to work when its coming from a server and not locally....hoep this helps...had the same problem myself....