Image for Flash Clips?

[robksawyer]

Can you customize the image that shows up when you pull a Flash clip into Resolume? At the moment, I can't even figure out how to get any image to show up. There must be a way, as I see the Flash plugins in this video have images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUsyOwCDSVk. But how?

Thanks for any help.

[robksawyer]

Ping, there must be a trick to this.

[robksawyer]

So far it's looking like this only works for Flash 8 AS2 swfs.

[Joris]

Thumbnails are created by playing the Flash clip in the background and then taking a frame from that. For Flash content I believe the frame is taken from around 30 frames in.

[robksawyer]

Still not quite sure how to embed this in the final SWF. Is there a way?


*Update:* Nevermind, I understand what you mean now. You're talking 30 frames in the timeline of the FLA. Thanks for the help.

[robksawyer]

It's kind of weird. I'm using the following version of Flash, Publish settings and Actionscript settings and I'm not having any luck. However, my buddy was able to publish and he is able to get it working. Will be able to compare settings with him soon.

Timeline:


At first I was getting the following Error when running the Flash file by itself. I then put a ExternalInterface.available check and this solved the issue.


Publish Settings:


Actionscript Settings:



Flash Player:

[MkUltra]

I typically will have a movie clip on the stage for clip initialize, and then once the class loads I have a script to hide it. Crude workaround, but it allows for a "thumbnail" that will disappear once the clip starts doing its thing.