 On2 Flix can convert the following formats to Flash:
Video: .avi, .dv, .mov/.qt, .mpeg, .mp4, .3gp; .asf/wmv (Windows only); .flv (Flix Pro for Windows only)
Audio: .mp3, .wav; wma (Windows only); aiff (Mac only)
Still Image: .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .psd, .tif, .pic, .tga
Macromedia has partnered with On2 to provide the video encoding
technology in the Macromedia Flash 8 family of products.
On2 is the
developer of the On2 Flix brand of Flash 8 video encoding tools
 Flix encoded SWF video and audio output is limited
only by the maximum allowed number of frames in the SWF format, which
is 16000 frames. For example, at a SWF framerate of 8 fps, your movie can be over 33 minutes
long. The Flash player will stop playing your video after 16,000 SWF
frames, and Flix will warn you if your output video will exceed 16,000
frames.
Do not create SWF video output that exceeds 50-60 MB of Flash player
RAM usage, which is determined by adding the file size to the overhead
of the Flash player itself. Flix will let you know how much RAM your
video and audio will use when it is loaded into the Flash player, and
it will warn you when you exceed 50 MB
The video format in the new Macromedia Flash Player 8 is based on On2's TrueMotion VP6 codec.
Some features:
- automatically output cool Flash players for your video
- automatically turn a video into a vector-based animation
- automatically add many Flash functions like preloaders, projectors and play controls
- works without a streaming server, plays on all platforms and browsers and streams through firewalls
- batch encode your videos
- outputs .FLV files (both 1-pass and 2-pass VBR) for easy import into the Macromedia Flash authoring tool
- full color, grayscale, two color and outline output options for vectorized video
- real-time preview at full resolution
The interface looks a bit old in Windows XP / Vista days, but the power is there.
The possibility to vectorize video will be very handy for animators.
If you don't need advanced features such as the alpha channel, two-pass encoding, batch, cropping etc, the standard edition is quite cheap.
If you do have to money and plan extensive use, definitely go for the Pro version with all the added features!
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