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Selecting advanced settings in the Video Import wizard

In the Video Import wizard, you can apply advanced settings to imported videos. Color-correction options let you adjust hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, and gamma to control color quality. Dimensions options let you reduce the scale of the imported video, or crop the video from the top, bottom, left, or right edge.

Track options let you choose what type of object the imported video will be: a video object on the current Timeline, a movie clip on the first frame of the Flash document, or a graphic symbol on the current Timeline. Audio options let you import an audio track as a separate file or an integrated part of the video file, or let you exclude the audio track from the imports.

You can save customized advanced settings as named profiles. The new settings appear in the Advanced Settings pop-up menu.

To apply advanced video encoding settings:

  1. In the Video Import wizard, after you have specified options for Compression Profile, select Create New Profile from the Advanced Settings pop-up menu. (If you have previously created Advanced Settings profiles, you can select a named setting from the pop-up menu.)
  2. Under Color options, enter values or drag the pop-up sliders to apply color corrections to the video image:

    Hue measures the color value, commonly indicated by the color name, such as red or green. Hue is identified as a location on a standard color wheel. Hue value can be between -180º and 180º.

    Saturation measures the strength or purity of the color. Saturation measures the amount of gray in proportion to the hue, indicated as a percentage between -100 and +100. A smaller saturation value indicates more gray. A higher value adds more color.

    Brightness measures the relative lightness or darkness of the color, indicated by a percentage between -100 and +100. A smaller value indicates more black, and a larger value indicates more white.

    Contrast measures the contrast between dark and light in the image, indicated by a percentage value between -100 and +100. A smaller value indicates less contrast.

    Gamma measures the overall lightness levels, indicated by a value between 0.1 and 1.8. A smaller value indicates a darker image. With a larger value, dark elements in the image stay dark and light elements become lighter.

    Reset resets all Color options to their default values.

  3. Under Dimensions options, enter values or drag the pop-up sliders to adjust the video dimensions:
    • For Scale, enter a value between 0 and 100 to decrease the scale of the video. The Width and Height values indicate the size of the video in pixels. (You cannot increase the scale of the video beyond its original size.)
    • For Crop, enter values for the right, left, top, and bottom edges to crop the video. Guides in the preview window indicate where the cropping will occur.
  4. Under Track options, select an option for Import Into to specify what type of object the imported video will be:

    Current Timeline imports the video as a video object in the current Timeline in the Flash document. If there are not enough frames in the current Timeline to accommodate the video, Flash prompts you to add more frames on import. With this option, you can browse the video frames in the current Timeline. However, you cannot apply effects to the video object.

    Movie Clip imports the video as a movie clip in the first frame of the Flash document. With this option, you can apply effects. However, you cannot browse the video frames in the current Timeline. (To browse the frames, you must open the Timeline of the movie clip.)

    Graphic Symbol imports the video as a graphic symbol in the current Timeline. If there are not enough frames in the current Timeline to accommodate the video, Flash prompts you to add more frames on import. With this option, you can browse the video frames in the current Timeline, and you can apply effects to the video.

  5. For Audio Track, select an option to specify how audio will be imported:

    Separate imports the audio track as a sound object, separate from the video file.

    Integrated imports the audio track as part of the video file.

    None does not import the audio track.

  6. Click Next.
  7. Enter a name and description for the Advanced Settings to save the settings. The name appears in the Advanced Settings pop-up menu the next time you use the Video Import wizard. Click Next.
  8. Click Finish to close the Video Import wizard and import the video.
  9. If you chose Current Timeline or Graphic Symbol for Track Options, a notification appears if the imported clip contains more frames than the current Timeline. Do one of the following:
    • Click Yes to add the required number of frames to the current Timeline span.
    • Click No to keep the span at its current size. Frames in the imported clip that exceed the frames in the span are not displayed unless you subsequently add frames to the span.
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