How to make a flash preloader with Flash 8?

If you run a video website, you must notice that sometime, especially when the web speed is slow, your clients will not be able to watch the video immediately. They will go. It really brought very bad impact to your website and your wallet. How can we resolve this problem? A preloader can help you. When people can not watch video immediately, they will be attracted by the beautiful preloader.

Well, how to make a swf preloader for your web video? This article will show you the perfect way to add and create preloaders to your flash videos for online delivery. And you will also find the way to create one by yourself. I suggest you to use Flash Video MX Pro. This software provides many wonderful preloaders, which you can use directly. (More free flash preloaders can be found: http://www.video-to-flash.com/christmas2008.html )

Next, I will teach you how to use Flash Video MX Pro to create flash video with preloader first.

Step1. Download and launch the software. After you opened it you can see this interface.


Step2. Import the video you wish to convert.

By click "open" button, you can see this dialog box.

Choose the video and click "Open".

Step3. After you imported the video, click next, and you can see the setting interface, the preloader will appear in your video only when you choose Generate Flash with the option Progressive download from a web server or Embed the video in SWF and play in timeline in this interface.


Step4. Go on "Next", when you see this interface, congratulations you can add swf preloder to your video now.

Choose one you favorite, and click "Next"

Step5. Create flash video.

Just press "Start" and after a few minutes you can see your flash video, of cause with preloder.

Some in us always like to challenge, next I tell you how to make a simple preloader with Flash 8.

Step1. Creating the "loading bar" and the "dynamic text field".

Open a new Flash document. Call the first layer loading bar.

Select the Rectangle tool (R) and block the Outline color. Draw a 150 by 5 pixel rectangle and center it on stage. I suggest that you adjust these values by entering them in the appropriate fields in the Properties panel. You’ll find the width (W) and height (H) input fields in the bottom left part of the aforementioned panel.

Select the rectangle by clicking on it with the Selection tool (V). Select Modify > Convert to Symbol to make a movie clip out of your rectangle. In the dialog window that appears, select Movie clip as type and call it blue loading bar. In the registration portion of the Convert to Symbol window, click the middle left rectangle (see it on the image below).

With your newly made movie clip still selected on stage, go to the left side of the Properties panel below the scene and assign it an Instance name. Call it loadingBar.

Lock this layer. Make a new one and call it bytes info.