Bug Terror! – Adobe Flash…again.
Adobe Flash CS4 is such a great improvement over CS3. A fine example is the improvement on the “import video” function.
Once your .flv is uploaded to your Flash Streaming Server (or whatever they’re calling it these days), you then import to the stage of your .fla and it imports all your metadata.
I’ve imported a 640×480 video file for this example. Once it’s done reading the metadata, it should place the correct sized video on the stage – just like CS3 used to.
And there you have it! A nice… er… 320×240 video that you have to go into properties and change to match the output of the .flv. Real good there, Adobe.
Oh yes, and if you stupidly forgot or didn’t write down the exact size of the output .flv file, you either have to go back in to their Media Encoder and fake another export just to get the size. Tip: Don’t bother opening the .flv in Adobe’s onerous media player, you won’t find specs anywhere.