Web Prototype in Fireworks, Video is Flash.. now how to incorporate?

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Rang and B

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I created an interactive design (yeah) with Fireworks CS4 and also created a very simple video and had Flash make it into its files. My problem is that Fireworks does not allow to import or bring in the video and from the looks of it, I really don't want to recreate the entire design in Flash [as I only wanted it to work on the video].

How do I incorporate the two?
From my understanding, I either

[a] Re do everything in Flash

Learn Dream weaver

[c] Learn how to cut-n-paste the html ???

Newbie in trouble and looking for answers
 
1. Export your Flash for the Web, including the HTML.
2. Open the Flash HTML in a text editor and note the width and height of the player in the OBJECT / EMBED tags. Add 10 to each measure. For example, if it's 460 x 320, make that 470 x 330.
3. In Fireworks, block out an area in your layout that takes up the size you computed in Step 2.
4. Create a slice over the area you blocked out in Step 3.
5. Export your Fireworks document with HTML.
6. Open the Fireworks HTML in a text editor.
7. Locate in that HTML the slice you created in Step 4. Remove all the code inside the TD tags for that slice.
8. Copy and paste the OBJECT / EMBED code from the Flash HTML into the area where you deleted code in step 7.
9. Save the Fireworks HTML. That's your new page and it should bring in the movie just fine. Some tinkering may be required to get backgrounds, etc. correct.
10. Alternatively, you can use an IFRAME to import the Flash page into the slice area you removed in step 7.
 
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