The Goal: To be able to have an imbedded .flv movie play immediately upon the opening of a screen (looping it would be ideal). The one we are working on right now is in a Media Focus template.

We have tried playing with various saving options and have had no luck.


We are easily able to drop our movie (.flv) into the media focus template in flash and make it play automatically. This (we think) will work for us as long as we specify which template to bring up in the presentation.xml file. As we see it, if we could pull the screen ID number from the presentation we would be able to call up specific screens based on the name we give them, allowing us to make these sorts of quick customizations to a variety of screens which would then be called up in our modified presentation.xml file.

Are we crazy? Is this going to work? Is there any way to pull up screen ID numbers from the presentation (either in authoring mode or viewing mode) so as to differentiate between different media focus screens in the same presentation? ...that would be "rad"


Thanks for all of your help!

Benjamin Slade

Arthouse at the Jones Center
Ballet Austin