I’ve been trying to use KeepVid the popular service that allows you to download Youtube videos and videos from other site but. I think the service is down. It’s been giving me this screen all day. I’ll have use other means to download the videos and check back later.

It’s great that Flash 3 can export Quicktime MOV files we have alot of clients that need that. While working on some intros for http://danereidmedia.com/mytalktones/ the export began to stall. We tried leaving it for mins, hours, overnight and it would just stall at the end. Flash wouldn’t freeze but no file. Follow these steps to get it working again. It’s a bit of a work around but it works.

Under Stop exporting Change the QuickTime export preferences to record for a length of time, rather than “When last frame is reached”. For the time divide the complete number of frames by the frame rate and that it. Works like a charm.

You finally upgraded your wordpress to the current version and uhh the wordPress image align feature not working. There is one WordPress feature that was introduced with version 2.5 that I didn’t understand: the image alignment feature of the “Add media” editor. Why? Because it never worked! never worked.

Sometimes your in a furry so you don’t get a chance to trouble shoot it here is the solution. Add the following code to your CSS style sheet.

img.centered {

display: block;

margin-left: auto;

margin-right: auto;

}

img.alignright {

padding: 4px;

margin: 0 0 2px 7px;

display: inline;

}

img.alignleft {

padding: 4px;

margin: 0 7px 2px 0;

display: inline;

}

.alignright {

float: right;

}

.alignleft {

float: left;

}

That’s it problem solved.

While I don’t build complete sites in Flash anymore I do use Flash to build some components. Sometimes I might  get a client who has a complete Flash site. I might get the fla file or I might just get the swf. Most of the time there is a missing font and I either have to replace it or install the font. Every other time this happens Flash may not find the font through Flash Font Mapping even after I have installed it and that’s what we’re here to talk about. Why Flash Font Mapping Not Showing? I don’t know. It’s some quirk about the font editor being open while Flash is open. You’ve installed the font but it still not working. The font still won’t show up and you know the font is there because you tried Photoshop or illustrator. Follow these steps and you’ll be on your way. It does work.

1. Close Flash.

2. Install the font

3. Close whatever font manager you use. Flash doesn’t seem to like having having a font app open when it launches. (I just use OSX’s default Font Book, so that may be part of my problem there, instead of some fancy font app like Suitcase

4. Launch Flash, and use the Text tool to see if the font is available in Flash. If so, you’re good to go. Otherwise, keep reading.

5. Close Flash.

6. Open your font manager, then disable the font, and close the font app.

7. Launch Flash while the fonts are disabled, then close it.

8. Open the font manager, re-enable the font, and close it.

9. Launch Flash one more time, and then that font should now be available.