Export dynamic movieclip traced over video - online?

[johnnymeerkat]

Okay, this is mostly pie-in-the-sky thinking from an idea a friend of mine had:

We've got an .flv video which has been imported directly onto the stage. At runtime, a movieclip then dynamically loads an image from the server and tweens over the top of the video. For example, one time the image might be a swan, another time it might be a bee. This all runs absolutely fine.

Is there any way at all that this dynamic movie, with the dynamically loaded image, can be ported to a 'hard copy' video, i.e. .avi, .mov, etc. online?

I've seen excellent tools like http://vixy.net/ (http://vixy.net/) which can transfer .flv (and more) files to pretty much any MPEG4 format video, but obviously we're looking to do the same thing with an .swf movie, with a dynamically imported image no less.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

[Mekelan]

I very much doubt it would be practically possible to transfer the amount of data a video object holds online (and that's without considering whether it's even possible, tech-wise), still it's interesting, so I'm replying mainly to tag the post for subscription :). Good luck with it though!

[johnnymeerkat]

For the widget in question we do have more-or-less carte blanche in terms of data transfer, but even so I agree: the processing and transfer rates would be close to astronomical. Considering the amount of work that goes into pushing a .jpg out of Flash online, this idea was always going to be shooting for the moon.

[Mekelan]

Considering the amount of work that goes into pushing a .jpg out of Flash online, this idea was always going to be shooting for the moon.

Exactly :)