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What tools are you using?
Unfortunately, I don’t have a direct answer to your question, but there might be a work-around if your client wouldn’t mind having it converted to SWF instead of FLV, which would work just fine, unless the file is to be uploaded to a video service (e.g. YouTube) and not just put on a page. If your situation is open for my SWF suggestion, then read on, otherwise, wait for someone to provide a specific solution.
If it’s not a lengthy slideshow with many, many images in it, you could extract just the stills to separate JPEG images, and using the awesome free slideshow component found here you could re-create the slideshow. As a bonus, you would be able to offer your client:
OOOA) A variety of neat transitions besides simple cross-fading
OOOB) Optional basic slide navigation (e.g. Next Slide, Previous Slide) aside from simple linear playback.
If this would work, and if you need further help, let me know. However, if this is not an option for your client, and the FLV format is categorically insisted upon, then I have to say I lack the knowledge to help you at this time. I might be able to help you better if I knew what tools you have at your disposal.
Peace:cool:

Thanks so much for responding. 

Because no one had responded last week when I first posted, I asked the client to give me the images.  They had made the slideshow via iphoto.  I remade the slideshow via Windows Movie Maker and exported it as a .wmv and then imported it into Flash with no problem. 

I appreciate your advice and will keep it in mind for future projects!

OKey, i think you can try this tools,which can convert videos to flv:)

http://www.video-to-flash.com/video_to_flash/

You should never try to encode an already compressed video directly to .flv

Try decoding it first to .avi with no compression at all. You never know wich codec the client used to make that video, wich type or compression, etc…

Once you have an uncompressed vid, play it and make sure that it works just as the original. Then importit from flash and make the .flv

It should work now.

It’s a shame that you had to take the job of re-doing all the workthat has already been done by your client.

CHEERS!!

[QUOTE=cdogg;724473]I have a quicktime .mov provided by a client.  It’s slideshow of still images with crossfades.  When I import the .mov into Flash, all the crossfades disappear.  So, the .flv is jumpy. 

How do I import the .mov file so that it retains the crossfades?

Thanks….

It seems that you don’t know this video to .flv converter, it is totally free, no watermark, no limitation, ocnvert popular videos (including .mov)to .flv. This is its tutorial: http://www.flash-video-mx.com/video4web-converter/tutorial/
I have tested it on my pc, it works!

seems nice…i wanna try it too

Do you guys not realise that Adobe supplies Media Encoder (free) with Flash and some of the other Adobe products? The CS4 version of Media Encoder is top-notch.

[QUOTE=Nutrox;764262]Do you guys not realise that Adobe supplies Media Encoder (free) with Flash and some of the other Adobe products? The CS4 version of Media Encoder is top-notch.

-Not to mention that you can now load and play .MOVs directly (in AS3). This is a pretty old thread.

This is indeed an old thread, I’m just amazed that some people still seem totally oblivious to Media Encoder.