rhino23
May 22nd, 2001, 12:37 PM
Hi, I am a sophomore(almost a junior) Digital Design major at UC, and right now I am on my co-op quarter. My job is to make interactive CD-ROMS for companies, and I am in charge of it all. While I love this job, and my freedom, it has shown me how very much I still have to learn. My dilema is with the playback of the cds. I created an animation using Strata 3D, and saved it as a Quicktime movie, I then imported it into a presentation I made in Flash. I have come across many problems with this. It plays perfect in Flash, but when I view it in the Flash player(.swf), the Quicktime movie does not show up. It does show up if I publish the movie as a Quicktime .mov, however when I publsih it, it does not show the mask layer that I created to fade out my animation. It also works great if I export it as a Quicktime, however then the link that I made in Flash, does not work. The way I have been combating this is exporting and publishing it, and splicing pieces together with Quicktime Pro. Although it's time consuming, it has been working, even though I have been battling a hitch where the two clips are connected. Ok, so now my dilema is that I need to put this on a CD-Rom, and I need it to auto-run, when inserted in the cd drive. I have tried auto-run, and because it is a .mov file, it will not work. .MOV is also the only format that I have found that will allow the Flash link to work. I know there has to be a better way to do all this. Am creating the thing incorrectly to begin with? I just feel very overwhelemd with all of these problems, and my boss is not helping any, I am in it alone. So any and all help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.