newbie help: video in flash

External Since: May 29, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi, I am new to the world of Adobe CS3, and have a complex question. I work as
an assistant video editor, and am creating videos for use in Flash. Since
these videos are edited slightly, I would like to have it fade in at the start
and fade out at the end. If I do that in Premiere, and then export to an flv
file, it is my understanding that the resulting video is pixelated in those
sections. Is there a way to take an flv file (without fades), and add fades to
it in Flash? I couldn't find anything covering this in tutorials and so forth,
and was hoping I could get some help here.

External Since: Jun 05, 2008 Posts: 2

It all depends on how you compress the video if it will pixelate the fades.
But there is a way around this that I have used and it seems to work pretty
well. What you do is put your flv inside of a movieclip and change the alpha
channel of that movieclip, thus in turn, fading the video. You can do this
both at the front end and the back end of the video.