High quality video in Flash ads.

[x2x3x2]

I'm sure many of us have seen flash ads on website which incorporate video playback in them.
The videos playing in such flash ads look really nice and clean.

I tried to experiment with embedding video within my flash project, but the videos never seem to turn out as good.
For example, I have a 320x240 video encoded at 320kbps in h.264, when I import this file in Flash CS4 it seems to have to transcode to h.263 which I think contributes to the lower quality.

Hope someone can point me to a thread or tutorial page which would help with including good quality video in flash ads.

[Baldrick]

It should be supported, http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WS9222D73A-676D-41cd-9222-A4884858BB...3-25EC5C73F873

How do you create the video? Are you using Adobe Media Encoder ?

[x2x3x2]

Yup I exported with AME.
Is there any special method of including high quality video into flash project other than the import method?

I also tried using x264 files encoded with Handbreak cos they were of better quality at lower bitrates.

Reason I did this was because when examining some of those flash ads which incorporate videos, they have relatively small file sizes with respect to the quality of video. Using AME, there was no way I could get the same quality, lowering bitrates in AME to match those file sizes resulted in heavy artifacting.

[edDV]

Got a sample url we could evaluate?

They start with high quality 30p video, shoot with compression in mind, low motion, optimal lighting, clean it up in editing, remove detail and encode once.

Most I've noticed have live action done against green screen and localized. The rest are simple graphics animations.

[poisondeathray]

did you uncheckmark "encode video" in flash CS4 when importing the video asset ?

yes, please post an example URL as edDV suggests - There might be other considerations here. If it was green screen with transparency, then you have no option but to re-encode it with vp6a - alpha channel isn't supported in flash with other formats

[budwzr]

I use a Flix encoder.

With this encoder, you can render to Flash anything supported by VFW.