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Help Topics: Flash Video

Why Flash Video?

  • It Just Works. No Additional Plug-Ins Required
    • Flash Video is based on the Flash Player - so it's ready to play in almost all of PCs worldwide. You don't have to worry about the platform, or the format, or whether your viewers will be able to see your video - because they will, without massive player installations, lengthy registration forms or ads attempting to upsell you to the "premium" player. With Flash Video, when the page loads, the video plays. It’s that simple.

Problems playing?

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  • Macromedia Flash Player installed correctly?
    • Although Flash is installed on over 97% of internet users computers, you may have an incorrectly installed or extremely out of date version. While we do out best to automatically upgrade you invisibly, you may need to manually do so. Click here for free, quick upgrade.

More reasons why we switched:

  • The industry’s choice for advanced interactive content creation
    • Flash Professional is the industry’s most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content. A major product release for Macromedia, Flash Professional has many brand new features including: amazing graphic effects, integrated and stand-alone video encoding complete with support for alpha transparency, high-quality text rendering with advanced anti-aliasing control, improved text tools, and a new video plug-in to export Flash Video (FLV) files from professional video products.