Re: FLASH: Converting Flash Files to Video Tape (Beta SP)

[David Wallach]

Very good info from kristopher schultz on this topic, and I have just a few

things to add... You mention that you have two files to 'transfer' each of

185 seconds in length... WOW....  Uncompressed NTSC resolution video

(without audio) can be 25megs/second in file size@!@!!! So you are talking

about 9.25 gigs of uncompressed video.... Unless you are sending them hard

drives,  that might be a problem. As to the codek thing, Sorenson is ok for

wee little QuickTime windows in somebody's browser, but I would go for MJPEG

if you are going to make the video files your self. Really the BEST thing to

do is output the whole thing as a PNG sequence and let the video jockey

types put it together.


The thought to export as tiffs or jpegs is a good one for quality, but the

best choice is png sequences as they don�t dump color info to allow for

compression,  and they can stitch these together for you in the Avid Room.

It will take some serious storage to ship these files (er.. No email...) but

multiple dvds or  a but load of cds will do the trick.


Remember to tone down your color palette, as NTSC colors are WAY too

saturated and your reds will blind most animals at 50 paces... So tone down.

Because the video heads that will be transferring this for you will need to

re-render this for you no matter what you do ( to compensate for the 60fps

to 59.94/fps needed for NTSC. see next paragraph...) just ask the folks to

run an AE filter or such that adjusts for NTSC colors, like the one in

Photoshop( which you could use to batch process the images if you want, but

with almost 23,000 stills ,  you might want them to do it.. =)


Now comes the hard part.. Frame rate... You should be outputting this thing

at 60 frames per second. Before everybody flames me on this list, hear me

out. NTSC needs to be 29.97/second (30 from flash, you got no choice) but

that leaves you with interlacing problems. Here comes the watered down

explanation,  if you want high octane, email me off list: TVs show the

images by showing them twice, once for an upper field and once for a lower

field, and since flash wont let you adjust for field ordering,  you gotta

double the rate..


..and remember to make your flash for Video... Not for the subtleties of

high res computer screens... No tiny little lines and all your text should

be larger than you like, and REALLY antialiased or the edges will jump

around and give the viewer some serious eye strain, try blurring the edges

of any hard edged objects that need to stay stationery on screen for very

long,  it makes the whole experience much nicer.


Hmmm... What else.. OH YEAH... All of the action in your movie needs to be

within 576*432 and any text or titles need to be within 512*384,  so that

the action doesn�t get cut off by some screens and so your text doesn�t do

wacky things that piss clients off.


Need more blahblah? Let me know.


Cheers,


dave



 



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