Importing Images and Movies into Flash (Exclusive Tutorial)

Part 1 - Importing sequence of images into Flash.

Quite often you need to import a sequence of images into Flash. They can be imported from any editor, and be either 3D or 2D style, or simply a set of pictures which you want to insert frame-by-frame into Flash.

So let's take a sequence of pictures. In order for Flash “to understand” that the sequence exactly, the picture names should contain a counter. For example, 001, 002, 003 … or movie01, movie02, movie03 ….

Create a new document in Flash. Click on File>Import>Import to Stage….



Select the first image in the sequence. Macromedia Flash will ask if you want to import the sequence of images; click YES.
That's all – now you have at your disposal 20 successive downloads in Flash pictures.



You can adjust the results, or publish them if you like everything as is.

This is what I got:



Note: You can import the following: BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and PICT (for Macintosh).

Part 2 - Importing video to Flash.

One more wonderful opportunity occurs when importing video. Flash supports many formats, though my favorite has always been, and remains, .mov video clip.

I suggest you insert a fragment from the preview of Star Wars 3.

Create a new document. File>Import> Import to Stage… Select option “Embed video” in Macromedia Flash document. We need only a fragment from preview, so choose “Edit video” first.



Using side scroll in order to set the size, then click Create Clip. Choose a title for your clip, and click the button “Next”.
Further you should choose the degree of compression. I chose 56 kbps, modem, since not all users in the Internet have broadband connections.



Now press finish and wait while Flash completes the import operation.

That's all there is to it. Further all depends on you.

Using “Transform tool”, I changed sizes of the video clip, then added background, added some effects and got an entertaining Flash clip.