Best/Highest quality export for 10 second video

I'm trying to embed an flv file into my flash document for a store's product (the 10 second clip is of a model doing a 360). The original video looks good, the export to .mov looks great - but converting to flv looks like garbage.

What would be the best work flow to get a simple, slow movement 10 second clip to flash?

Many thanks

I'd ditch flv (by that i'd mean the vp6 codec). Use H.264 at around 1.5kb/s. That should work for web, and flash supports it since flash 9.



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I'm embedding these into a flash piece. It says it only takes flv files.

Thanks

Ugh. I hate you, Adobe, for confusing everyone, everywhere.

FLV is not a video format. It's a file format. Think of it like a box. You can put different kinds of things inside the box. Back in the day, what people put inside the box was video encoded in a format called VP6. VP6 was bad, and everyone hated it, but they used it because nothing better existed.

Today something better exists, and it's called H.264. You can encode video into the H.264 format and put it in the FLV box.

That's what Strypes is saying you should do. And he's right.

So i should be able to use H.264 which will create a .mov file - rename that .flv and embed it?

You don't actually have to rename it. Flash 9 takes movs as well.

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Strange. In my flash cs4 (version 10) i'm trying to import the .mov to embed it into my flash movie.

It gives a warning that the file is not a valid format for embedding video - to select an flv file.

Okay, I meant the Flash player, not Flash the program, or the superhero... Flash doesn't import non-FLV files. The Flash player on the other hand, is what allows the end user to watch H.264 videos streamed to their computer.



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