Re: FLASH: offending compression on imported bitmaps

[Gahlord Dewald]

Erik,


I would be willing to wager that you have more than one frame on your main

timeline.


When you have more than one frame on the main timeline Flash lowers the image

quality in order to run animation. This completely sucks, I know. But I bet it

does help for animation on all those slow computers out there. This will happen

and make your image look jaggy no matter how good the image is before you

import. I believe it turns off anti-aliasing for the bitmaps (someone who knows

exactly what this is will hopefully post as well... Helen?).


Workaround:

Put your entire movie into a movieclip and put one frame on your main timeline

containing this movieclip. Drawback is that your whole damn movie loads like a

truckload of bricks. But that depends on how many bitmaps etc etc. 


Other Possibilities:

1. Check the image settings in the bitmap in your library. Make sure you aren't

compressing further in there.


2. Check the image settings in your publish settings for Flash. Make sure you

aren't compressing further there.


3. Make sure you are previewing at actual size. The Flash automatic jaggy

enhancement looks much worse if enlarged even a tiny bit.


4. Consider recreating the logo as vector art in flash. This, of course, depends

on the particularities of the logo etc. But most logos do quite well as vector

art (in fact, most begin life that way).


Hope that helps,

g




On 12/10/00 at 8:48 PM, Erik Kittlaus <

eriktryptik [dot] com

> wrote:


> does flash have to impose its own compression on all imported images, 

> whether they're brought in as either gifs (compressed) or picts 

> (uncompressed)? i'm getting some ugly artifacts on a logo image that 

> i can't seem to avoid either way.

> 

> it previews just fine in authoring mode, yet upon export there are problems.

> 

> when i bring it in as a gif i set the compression settings in the 

> bitmap properties dialog box to lossless (png, gif) in the hopes that 

> this will preserve the gif compression - and not add any more of its 

> own. no matter. when i go to save it out as a swf i get the artifacts.

> 

> when i bring it in as a pict (mac) using the photo setting (jpg) - 

> which i know is not the way to go - i get the same results.

> 

> surely there must be a way to import gifs (logos and such) and retain 

> image quality upon export.

> 

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