RE: FLASH: BMP or JPG

[Rick Turoczy]

Patrick,


It's been my experience that moving, fading, or even inserting ANY image

will increase your file sizes severely. But, I love seeing it done well.


I've always had the best "quality" from importing uncompressed formats

like bitmaps. Flash compresses these images for export anyway, so you're

still getting some file reduction. As you said, only one level of

compression is taking place. That's why you get the quality.


I've always had the best "speed" and files sizes from already compressed

images, but the quality is not so good. Obviously, it's a compressed

image being compressed again, so you get some fun archiving and

pixelating.


So, my vote is usually for bitmap. I also recommend setting export

compression settings on an image by image basis. The blanket "jpeg

quality" does not often work well for a variety of imported images. Some

can look stunning at 30%, while others look horrible at anything less

than 90%.


Hope that helps,

Rick


Rick Turoczy

rickdiversitycorp [dot] com

 / ICQ#21789721

http://www.diversitycorp.com/

-----

The NEW InSite forum--Dynamic Marketing Q&A

http://www.diversitycorp.com/html/insite_board.html




-----Original Message-----

From: Patrick Levy [

plevyplanetkc [dot] com (mailto:plevyplanetkc [dot] com)

]

Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 8:35 AM

To:

flashermail [dot] chinwag [dot] com

Subject: FLASH: BMP or JPG



A question for experienced flashers:  I'm creating what will be, no

doubt, a

fairly large .swf file that will incorporate a fair number of bmp/jpg

images

with alpha channel fades (for a good example of what I'm doing, see

http://www.bodyofwork.com).  My question is this:  What's the most

efficient

way to bring in these images?  


------------------------------------------------------------------------

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managershocker [dot] com

.  Problems to:

ownershocker [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managershocker [dot] com