Flash Video Encoder User Guide

Flash Video Encoder User Guide > Setting Flash Video Encoder preferences

Setting Flash Video Encoder preferences

Flash Video Encoder provides the following preference settings that you can specify:

Flash lets you set preferences for general application operations, editing operations, and clipboard operations.

To set preferences:

1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh).

   
   
   

   Preferences dialog box

   
   
2. Select from the respective options described in the procedures that follow.
   • By default, Flash Video Encoder prompts you with a warning if you attempt to stop encoding a queue, or remove a file during the encoding process. To disable the warning, deselect Warn On Stop Queue Or Remove File.
   • By default, Flash Video Encoder increments each file you encode with the same name by appending a number to the filename. For example, if you encode a video clip and create the output file video.flv, and then decide to re-encode the same file without deleting video.flv, Flash Video Encoder will name the next file video1.flv. To disable filename incrementing, deselect the Increment Output Filename If File With Same Name Exists option.

   CAUTION

   If you choose to disable filename incrementing, Flash Video Encoder writes over any existing files in the destination folder with the same name. To prevent this, name your video clips in such a way that they don't inadvertently overwrite one another.

   • To remove files from the encoding queue once they've been encoded, select the Remove Completed Files From The Queue On Exit option. This removes any encoded files from the encoding queue when you exit (close) Flash Video Encoder.
   • By default, Flash Video Encoder places encoded FLV files in the same folder as the source video clip, prepending a .flv extension to differentiate the newly encoded video clip from its source video. To select a different destination folder in which to place FLV encoded video clips, select the Place Output Files In option. The Browse for a Folder dialog box will be displayed.

     Select an existing folder on your local computer, or create a new folder in which to output encoded video files.

Flash CS3