Flash Movies into Your Website: Dreamweaver Tutorial

[maarten765]

I've embedded a Flash object into an html page using Dreamweaver, and after that the swf appears to be missing once I upload the site. Have you any idea how to solve this problem?

[maarten765]

Thanks for the video, but: If I've embedded a Flash object into an html page using Dreamweaver, the swf appears to be missing once I upload the site. Have you any idea how to solve this problem?

[Justinurban03]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOH IM SUCH AN IDIOT! at the part where you said "all you need to do is upload the swf to the server" ........ my mind was like "HEY IDIOT MAYBE THATS WHY YOURS DOESNT WORK!"........ thank you

[adge610220]

thanks for the tutorial!

[warselu]

where can i find that common menu ? 

[joeygart]

Will this be also applicable to Flash games on your website?

[tim91016]

I uploaded the flash to my site and everything works well but when you hit one of the flash buttons you get directed to another page(which is what I wanted) but if i hit "back" it wont let me hit any of my buttons again, why is this. and I only have this problem in firefox, It works fine in all the others

[444004541]

not specific at all and talks really fast!!!!!!!

[bujitumutombo]

Hi there, can you please help me here? i have designed my website with css dropdown menu and just bellow it in the maincontent i have insert my swf flash file

but when i PV my website in internet explore, my dropdown menu goes under the flash movie, please tell how to fix it... THANKS

[McRoomster2009]

is this possible in microsoft publisher?



[walh001]

My swf video plays in the lie view of my dreamweaver page, but it's not showing on my server when I log on to the site. All the other SWF files can be seen, but the videos are not loading on the server. What can I do to make it happen?

[aramaram1993]

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[youngvns]

swf video plays in the dreamweaver preview but not on the browser preview ..I don't know if it's not playing or just not uploaded right...

[stevek339]

My video is already an swf file. How do I build it into a Flash site? Is imbedding or linking better? The length of the video is 4:40.

[MarioLuigi5959]

Guys I Have A Tip To Not Only Make Animations In Flash

Just Find A Media Converter Choose Your Video

Convert It To: fla. Now Follow This Tutorial There Ya Go Thumbs Up If This Worked!!

[capitalinnov]

thanks guy very interesting

[machinesix]

this video seriously sucks.

[GustavoChurch]

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[musiccuts]

My swf file looks good when I play it in dreamweaver as you did. I uploaded it as you did. It comes up online with just the skin player without video. Help!

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[roc181]

Hey..great explaining though I am having problems seeing it on my site.did what you did.. I use DW CSS3. I can see the swf file on my page, locally, but when I send the index.html page and the intro.swf to my site, it's all blank. Checking forums around, i'm not the only one who has the problem. I'm sure I'm missing something very simple, but can't see it. I did not that when you choose your swf, that's grey in color. Mine are a red flash icon. That cld be it so I gotta try and get that, somehow

[dude10252000]

hey mate can u pls tell me how to insert the moving text in flash cs5 with image background

[matt1time]

@dude10252000 im having the same problem

[woodland105]

when i put it on there, theres just a white blank area where the flash file is supposed to be!!!! what do i do?!?!?!

[c0kar7]

how do you place a loop video in dreamweaver that encompasses the whole page without showing any playback buttons??

[iLikePhilly]

Thanks TutTY!!!

[ashgos]

How i m poor really???????

[AristonMusic]

Hello,

I was following along with this video. I was able to insert my .swf file into my web site. However; when I view it in IE it looks great but when I view it in FireFox there is a extra 2-3px of white space at the bottom of my flash video. Any suggestion?

[Balleva21]

I've been trying to put an image in place of the flash on a webpage to when someone who views it doesn't have flash or is not enabled, instead of that X#!%$ cube that will show up. Using Dreamweaver CS3 and Flash CS3. Any Help greatly appreciated!!!

[carlalanina]

/Users/jaimeandrestejadar/Site­s/flash/losmejoresdisenios_Esc­ena 1.swf

[Azizmuradov]

Simple tutorial thats 7min??? WoW he talks too much.

[drdracula]

thanks, question though. want if i want my video to be the whole area size of my browser window? and it adjusts itself automatically for different size browsers? basically a webpage that is only a video

[TheSchola3000]

i cannot find the publish settings on mines theres no word publish anywhere!!

[nebjo]

I did exactly what you instructed, but when I go to view it online, there is no flash slideshow. What could I be doing wrong?

[LUnarcry52]

how to make a rounded border in the table??

[fnkdrmmr]

Hello. I have Dreamweaver and I'm trying to place a Flash file on my HTML page. It appears that I need a converter - to convert my WMV file to a Flv. file. Also, what type of file are you placing on your web page? Is it a jpeg, flash file or what? I think those steps are missing and leaves a person who is learning Flash scratching their head.

[blurgleflical]

He didn't leave that out. He placed a flash file in the site.

[alanalien123]

I love you Videos, But i still got a question.

How do you add an swf file as a background and over that background an html page.

From the previous tutorials i learned that its done with css.

Sorry my ignorance and i hope to hear back from you Thank you

[neightn]

how do you upload an individual flash video with playback controls (play-stop-pause-volume) on the web through DW

[TPain1963]

CS4 is great and it uses swfObject to embed Flash, but what if you want to add multiple swfs onto your page and layer them? What if you want your swfs to float above your page? You have to do some JavaScript coding - OR you can use a free tool called Enhance that does all of the coding for you and gives you more power when adding Flash to websites.

[MegaLokiman]

CS4 would be awesome i have CS3...

[mohamedkaba95]

CS4 can't do this, on CS3 does

[dcastelow]

How do you center the swf file within Dreamweaver?

[safaazimi]

I have created a page in dreamweaver with drop-down menus and a flash movie just below it.

When the menu items are selected they fall behind the flash animation. How can I make the drop down windows place themselves in front of the flash window. Thanks in advance

[vio4ever]

how did u make a drop-down menu, I'm struggling  at this part.

[safaazimi]

within dreamweaver, in the tag inspector under behavior. First you have to create an image file, then you hot spot it (if you know what that is). Once you have placed that blue layer over your image, in the tag inspector window, in the righ side pannel, click on the + sign, in the drop down menu select "pop-up menu; a window will open where you can put in your text & select your atributes.

Good Luck

[vio4ever]

thanks, i'll try this out.

thanks

[vio4ever]

ok i just tried it, but when you click on the + sign, and when the drop down menu come, i haven't got pop-up menu, but i have pop-up message, which is a totally different thing.

I am using dreamweaver cs4 by the way. I think this is why it is not there.

[safaazimi]

create menu object in jpg format. You can do this in photoshop or similar program. it is simpler to make 1 whole menu bar; with correct pixel dimensions that would fit into your tag box in DW. Click on that image in DW a black border appears in the properties section bellow the page you'll see at the lower left side blue geometric shapes. Select the rectangle drag the curser over the item that you want to drop down, then go to properties...+...you'll see make "show pop up menu".

[bronyaur14]

I'm confused. I'm taking a web design II college class and my instructor told me that i have to save the flash file as an html. But I tried it and it didn't work. I tried your way and it didn't work. What am i doing wrong?

[FNGclan]

Just save "export" the .fla file "working flash file" to a .swf file. Simple enough.

Make sure you are upoading the file into your site folder and all links to the .swf are correct. Like he said, "cake work".

[Techsupportbegins]

man when i post it to my host the video does not appear

[TryByC]

same ;/

[xtremegamer1291]

very nice job.. youve been a great help!!

[aashir1997]

my webhost does not accept larger then 8 mb

[zeebugbee]

maybe u should try webng. u can have a limit of 350 mb

[aashir1997]

the site does not exist

[ethien007]

when i put i flash animation...it says that i need the new version of adobe flash player...but i already have it! what do i do?

[EnraginInferno]

what might have happened is that dreamweaver or ur media source does not recognize the codes for the flash player or javascript (at some instances) what u do is just execute the flash setup file again and it should be good to go (i am assuming that u already have the flash exe file when u first downloaded flash) otherwise download flash again. hope this helps

[ethien007]

thanks but it didn't work.

[HANGER187]

I dont care what anyone says. The author for tutvid is awesome. Keep the videos coming. This really aids in my endeavors. Appreciate it. Dont mind the kids that gripe.

[tutvid]

haha thanks for that :D Your tutorials are great by the way....

Sorry guys I had to.

N.

[KirbyOnCronic]

mine is still not showing up on the browser!

[leavemealone300435]

if i put some in it

[leavemealone300435]

does the swf file include the sound

[iwno77]

Could you also show how to put a adobe bridge flash gallery into an existing html dreamweaver site.

I can't get it done. Preview, liveview (cs4),nothing works.

thanks!

[ClaraTOD]

I love your tutorial!! IT saved my life!!

[StudioMixxx]

comment to people who post tutorials. How someone teaches is just as important as what someone teaches... My point here is. This guy on this tutorial is really good but he teaches as if the people he's teaching ALREADY have a graphic design degree. Or like other video's on the same subject where its some 9 yr old kid drawing stick people and saying ummm alot.. no disrespect Tutvid.

[mabrow1985]

flash elements on a dreamweaver page disappear when you upload the site online!!!!

[abhigb1985]

try uploading both .html and .swf files...

[longbow946]

when I open my page within the browser , there is just a blank space where the flash should appear. Why so ?

[G4MER04]

I had the same problem go to file>export movie then save it anywhere

it should work then because otherwise it gets saved as an .fla you want it to be saved as a .flv file

hope this helped

[meekocucu]

when i put my swf. file in dreamweaver then save it as index.html what step am i missing?

because when i put the index.html file in my public_html folder the dreamweaver background shows up, but my swf. site doesnt...

thanks,

Miche

[G4MER04]

it should be exported as a flash movie the flash file should be a .flv

[abhigb1985]

try uploading both .html & .swf or .flv files...

[meekocucu]

now theres just a white box where the .flv is when i test it

[G4MER04]

i think u have to click on it to activate it, I dont know thats how it wokrd for me I just made a flash file like normal then went to fil> exporte as a movie

Then in dreamweaver insert flash file and choose the file. It should work

[jnbjabnk]

a '.flv' file is not an Adobe Flash file, a '.flv' file is basicly only the movie, the exported file of an Adobe Flash project is a '.swf'. ;D

[jnbjabnk]

Export as a '.swf' file, when uploaded the 'Site' make sure you uploaded the '.swf' in the write directory on the remote server

[imback218]

let the flash animation load.....

[carp1990]

Thanks a lot! :P

[Cherished131]

What if you have an earlier dreamweaver version?

What if you are trying to put a Google video?

Or MSvideo on the website?

[54spiritedwill54]

So helpfull!! Thank you

[xr40]

does anybody know if it is possible to create a dreamweaver file and use it on myspace?

thanks

[amayar12]

seb, u need to make an invisable button... i know that adobetutorialcs3 has a tutorial on it... so yah, search that and u shouold get it

[Sebsnowman]

i want to make like an flash animation on my website that is actually ''clickable''. like if some1 clicks it it goes into an other webpage.

if anyone could tell me how to do it, would be very appreciated. thanks. =)

[wiggbuggie0]

forget books this guy is awsome!

[xxiamg0dlyxx]

how do you make the video autostart?

[killuacaper]

i am guessing the he didnt put a stop(); action in the flash

[EliteHowrseDesign]

Thank man it works perfectly! keep on keep'n on buddy!

Talk to ya later,

[roozbeh12]

every time i watch this guy's tutorials i learn a new thing man.

[flashmania247pagetl]

Help? it says it can't import .swf's, only xml or html? whats happened?

[SimsRealityNetwork]

My .swf doesn't show on my site. I even uploaded the .swf itself and the images as well. The writting shows up but not the .swf. The .swf is my Header so it's really important.

[lipzonly]

thank for ur great tutorials. i just want to ask a question, do you have a tutorial which shows how to insert a flash dropdown nav bar? because everytime i insert my dropdown navbar to dream weaver it includes the white blank area(the space where your choices would appear) is there anyway i can make that area editable? or at least change the bgcolor because it looks terrible having that white blank area on my page. i just starting to work with dw.

[Dominican11500]

Thank you great information a video worth watching!

[SimsRealityNetwork]

Thank You! It makes so much more sense.

[panoramarick]

We have been trying to follow everything we found written on this which wasn't consistent with what you described. We now have flash videos playing on our site and we are thrilled! Thank you for having this tutorial out there.

Kim

[DaMannnn20]

Does ne1 know how to add a Rate this video with stars (like youtube)...underneath

ty to ne1 that answers:)

[marshallstaab]

thanks a ton man...keep tutvid up and running for all of us

[vincesway]

no i have no idea wgar you did

[chttli]

wow ur awesome everybody say's that and umm dude how do u create a website(I tried creating a flash website but is hard(to much to do)

[Textynn]

THANK-YOU! I got it thanks to you. Ive been trying to put in the .fla and going crazy. You saved what was left of my hair.

[christianmeow]

A .swf file is a flash file that you have created (actually saved your project in) when you did it in your flash software. The .fla is the flash root (editable). You need to have both to modify in dreamweaver. The .swf is a FLASH file or movie file. It's the one that has effects and makes motions. If you need help, send me a message as I've made these types of websites already. By the way, very well done video you have here! Very informative!!!!!!! A must see!!!!!!!!!!

[GoWLegendDale]

Thank you =] Good tutorial

[sgu05dc]

Yeah I tried putting filters onto an image and it says that filters can only be applied to text....so i cant get the blur in effect that he describes? any tips (Flash 8)

[captainnikolas]

how do I put a flash file on an img at dreamweaver?

[arthosg]

dont understand beginning ?

whats this swf file ?it looked like u just opened a blank page??

[jumpcho160]

a swf file is just a type of file just like MP3, AVI, FLA. and so forth.

[spanc0]

very helpful A+

[ehuiwh]

hey i made a site it dw but how i publish it ?make a video thank you

[umaribnkhalid]

helpful thanks

[HorrorAddict23]

So helpfull!! Thank you so much!! ^_^

[bensfriend4]

Lol Ive Been Downloadig Dreamweaver For My Website.

Can You Make A Tutorial Saying How To Publish It.

[chillhood]

wtf is wrong with his voice ???

[danomano65]

So you just stick the .swf into the Dreamweaver and when u update the index.html in ur ftp server, all u do is make sure to include the .swf and .html into the server? It's that easy? I've been kicking my own ass over this all day. Though i'm making my first website, so it's all kinda new.

Thanks for this.

[cpdp999]

i want to upload a video from my mobile phone onto dreamweaver 8 but having problems, i have it saved as a qucik time video but when i try to insert it as a flash video it comes up with "the url can not contain spaces or special characters. change the path or file name and try again"

[cameraflash123]

Adding flash vid is common sence- go to insert- media- flash video. I DON'T WANT FLASH I WANT AVI, MPEG, AND MOV!!!!!! PLZ HELP

[xfree92]

hey i wan my flsh video as my intro...like they visidted my my website and the flash videeo come out 1st den it will go to my index page....can u tell me how??

[evilnice18]

superb video! I thank you good sir. =) 5 stars

[magicmoose5]

will this keap the audio

[tutvid]

It most certainly will!

[magicmoose5]

thanks alot

[olechka111]

....good info, though. Thanks!

[olechka111]

blurry

[lefkytheshin]

Thanks again! At the end you referred to putting the .swf file into an HTML shell for uploading to the web. How would I go about doing that? Thanks.

[Aonefischer]

Hey just to let you know your video have been awesome. I started by looking at you flash files, and ended up here again for dreamweaver tutorials. Any ways my question is all I have is the i,age veiwer, so when I go to the common tab I cant select flash. What should I do?

[Aonefischer]

"image viewer" I need the flash option

[Aonefischer]

another note is I have a education version, when I look at my site the page is there but there is just a big white box. I made a site in flash. Nothing shows up

[Aonefischer]

flash1\TFI 1.swf - error occurred - An FTP error occurred - cannot put TFI 1.swf. Access Denied. The file may not exist, or there could be a permission problem. this is the message i get when I try to up;oad

[Aonefischer]

I can also view it in Dreamweaver like you shown in the tutorial by hitting play. So I got the file in but it does not show on my website

[tutvid]

The Flash object is a different button, it sits to the right of the image button.

You are probably seeing a big white box because you need to place your flash file into Dreamweaver.

When naming files for the web it is best practice to use all lower case letters, no special characters, and no spaces. Have fun :D

[Aonefischer]

Thanks I got it up but I think I dont have the option to select it. The only button I have is the image viewer. Is there a special download? I know this might seem stupid but I followed your instructions to a T. I got it up now but I didnt see that feature to click on. T

[neadyx]

Where do upload the swf files for hosting ?

[johnds2001]

can i use swishmax 2 to ctreate a flash file then put it on dreaweaver will that be playable flash?

cuz swishmax2 is mucg cheaper than adobe flash cs3

[tutvid]

As long as you export it as an SWF file you can place it in dreamweaver using dreamweaver's flash tools, heck you can even export an SWF file using Adobe Illustrator and that would work. As long as you can export an SWF using SwishMax you will be good to go!

[Gypsisholy]

im trying to load a flash file to dreamweaver, it loads fine. the problem is the flash file is edited using external text. it appears in dreamweaver as "undefined" how do i fix this?

[smcorrea]

When i upload the website with the flash animation it appear a white rectangle, why?

[tutvid]

Try viewing the web page in FireFox or some browser OTHER than IE. Also remember you have to upload not only the .html file, but also the .swf file you have placed in that .html file.

[smcorrea]

yeah i tried to upload the animation .swf in the FTP and the same thing happens

[dannylogrono]

Thanks for the haelp

[ktvideomaster]

were do you get plugins?