Technical information

by Forest Key and Chris Hock
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FLV file format. This ability to prepare FLV files from within third-party
applications improves the workflow between video applications and your
Flash project.
Flash Video Exporter achieves its seamless integration within third-party
applications by leveraging the QuickTime export plug-in architecture. Flash
Video Exporter is a plug-in to QuickTime that you can use with third-party
applications that support exporting to the QuickTime file format. However,
Flash Video Exporter does not produce QuickTime movies, but FLV files that
contain Flash Player–compatible video and audio streams. QuickTime
movies use the .mov extension; FLV files use the .flv extension.
After installing the Flash Video Exporter plug-in on your system,
applications that support file export to the QuickTime file format will show
Movie to Macromedia Flash Video (FLV) in their list of QuickTime export
options. However, not all applications that support exporting to QuickTime
support exporting to QuickTime Export Components. For a summary of
leading third-party tools that support the Flash Video Exporter plug-in refer
to the section "Supported Third-Party Applications" later in this paper. For
full details on using each of these third-party tools, refer to the individual
product manuals.
Using Flash Video Exporter in Demo Mode
For the Flash Video Exporter plug-in to work properly you must have a valid
Flash MX Professional license installed and activated on your computer. If
you are using Flash MX Professional in evaluation mode, or if you do not
have a valid Flash MX Professional license installed, you can still use Flash
Video Exporter in Demo Mode. While in Demo Mode you can use all features
of the plug-in, but the FLV files created will show two one-pixel diagonal
lines running across the resulting video as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 6: Example of an FLV file encoded with Flash Video Exporter in Demo Mode.
Supported Third-Party Applications
As of the writing of this document, the following applications support the
Flash Video Exporter plug-in: