RE: FLASH: Good graphics, Bad graphics.

[Eric Smollin]

Sorry Matt, but None of those solutions will work (as you should already

know). The only way to remedy this problem is to create a one frame movie (I

always name mine rasterSaftey.swf) and in this first and only frame, add a

load movie action and load your movie into level 1. As long as the original

level 0 movie only has one frame, all of the raster images will look

outstanding, else, they look like sh*t. 


I can't believe there's not a technote on this, or that more people haven't

run into problems with this....


-Eric-




>Let me summarize the issue you presented, and explain why it could be

happening.

>Issue: 

>Adding more than one frame to a movie causes the image quality to

deteriorate.

>Reason: 

>Bitmaps in one-frame movies are actually treated differently than when

given more frames. Why? To >display a bitmap at its highest quality,

playback speed may be compromised if it's expected to >maintain the same

quality. Therefore, when the movie has more than one frame, image quality is

>automatically sacrificed for the sake of performance. It's a case of

quality vs frame rate. 

>This is how the program is built. We can't necessarily override this

feature.

>However, I should also add that the quality of bitmaps in movies with more

than one frame shouldn't >deteriorate *that* badly. 

>If you find that image quality is unnacceptable, try these things:

>1. Set the image quality to "Best" in the Publish Settings. This setting

specifically optimizes >bitmaps when played back in the browser.

>2. Change the compression settings in the Library > Bitmap Properties.

>3. Try resizing the image by 1%. Oddly enough, sometimes Flash can be

quirky when rendering bitmaps >>(shifting, banding, etc) and it can be

corrected by doing something minor such as adjusting size or >alpha, ever so

slightly.

>4. Bring the image in again in a different format.


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