Embed a video

When you import video, you can embed the video so that it’s included in your document file. You can also link to the video so that it remains an external file, yet the video file still appears in the Library panel. You’ll embed the video to use many of the Video Import wizard features. Embedded video becomes a library object and part of your document.

1 Select File > Open. Browse to the location where you saved the videoImport download and double-click video_import_start.fla
2 Select File > Save As and save the document with a new name, in the same folder, to preserve the original start file.

3 Select Window > Panel Sets > Training Layout to modify your workspace for taking lessons.

4 In the Timeline, select the Video layer.


5 Select File > Import > Import to Stage. To open the video file, browse to the location where you saved the videoImport download and double-click Trio_Experience.mov.
MOV is the extension for the QuickTime video format. The Video Import wizard opens.

6 In the Video Import wizard, verify that Embed Video in Macromedia Flash Document is selected, and click Next.

Select editing options

After you choose to embed the video, you have the option of editing the video or importing it without editing. For this lesson, you’ll edit the video.

1 In the Video Import wizard, select Edit the Video First, and click Next.

A preview window and editing controls appear in the Video Import wizard. 2 Video editing controls include the following:

■ A seek bar with an In marker, Out marker, and playhead


Out marker

Playhead In marker

¦ Playback control buttons

¦ In and Out marker buttons

¦ Buttons that let you create and update video clips

¦ A clip list

3 Click Preview Clip to watch the video.

Note: The video includes an audio track.

4 The video ends by fading to white. To edit out the white video at the end of the clip, move the Out marker, on the right side of the seek bar, slightly to the left, to the approximate point where the video fades to white (around 00:00:25:067).

5 Click the Create Clip button to add the edited video to the list of clips.

If you were adding many clips to the list, you could select Combine List of Clips into a Single Library Item After Import to create one clip that contains all listed clips. Since you’re working with one clip only, you don’t need to select that option.

6 Click Preview Clip again to view the edited clip, then click Next.