
Noise refers to the speckles over each frame you might see if your footage is dimly lit, and movement (such as a tree blowing in the wind) similarly involves a lot of pixels moving.

Fading includes fading in and out and also refers to one clip of video fading into another (known as cross-fadingsomething you might use if you have edited your video in another program). Limit fading, noise, and movement if possible. It might still look great, but can end up importing with a smaller file size. If your video looks great when you import it, try changing the settings and compress the original file a bit more (perhaps by using a lower-quality setting or fewer video keyframes). All video footage is different it compresses and decompresses differently, depending on factors such as color, movement, and effects. If file size is very important, you should try out different import settings and quality levels. Remember that blank areas at the beginning and end of the footage add to the file size, so make sure that you use Flash's editing features during the Video Import Wizard (used in the following exercises) to trim off any extra video at the beginning and end if you haven't already trimmed it prior to import. Consider the following points about video before you start to edit or compress it: However, even with adequate control over compression (and a good codec), video can still be very large because of the amount of data contained in every single frame. The more control you have typically means the better compression you can manage to achieve while still balancing file size with an acceptable quality. Either way, you have a lot of control over the compression (or export) settings for the video.Ī critical thing to consider before you import video is how much control you have over editing and compression prior to or during import. You can edit the single video file into several smaller clips if you like or bring the whole thing in without editing. Flash 8 Basic allows you not only to import and embed video but also to do some very simple edits to the video as you import it. Now that you have imported some audio into the FLA file, it's time to switch gears and add some video to a FLA file.
