Re: [flasher] IMPORTING VIDEO FOOTAGE INTO FLASH FOR TRACING.

[Olympic Health Management Systems]

easy to do. if you have a digital video camera, firewire is a good idea.

although you'll need a special card for your computer, the quality will be

much better. however, it sounds like you will be tweaking it anyway and

tracing, so quality isn't so big a deal, eh? so all you need is a video

capture device that'll hook up to your parallel port. you'll run your lines

from the vcr right into this device and you'll be able to convert video on

your vcr to your computer. then you take premiere or some other program and

generate bitmap or jpg sequences. frame by frame images. then you start

tweaking. the best, imho, is to use photoshop and the many filters it comes

with to simplify the images. try threshold or cutout or the artistic

filters. then import into flash (make sure your file names are in sequence

so flash imports the sequence for you), and then use the trace and optimize

commands within flash. 


this of course, is for an end result similar to the video i did at

designabyte.com 


good luck.t


At 05:48 PM 2/2/2001 -0800,

facquayeyahoo [dot] com

 wrote:

>Hello Flashers: 

>

>Does anyone transfer video into Flash as part of

>his/her gig and how best do I solve this problem? 

>

>I need to import some video footage of a pitcher

>(pitching a ball) into Flash. I then have to trace

>specific frames in order to animate the pitchers body

>movement in flash. 

>

>1: Do I need a Firewire (IEEE 1934) connection/adapter

>to hook up a VCR to my WIN based computer? What are

>the alternatives?

>2: I have Adobe Premier 5 (just bought the Peachtress

>press book to try and get up to speed). Does premier

>lend itself to this kind of job?

>

>I am told that TigerDirect.com also offers a consumer

>type of video capture software. Any tried and true

>methods out there please? I'm under the proverbial

>gun.

>Many thanks in advance!

>

>Francis

>

>

>__________________________________________________

>Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 

>a year!  http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

>

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>      The Chinwag site carries a wealth of Flash resources.

>        Find useful links, suggested reading and archives at:

>

>          ** http://www.chinwag.com/flasher **

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

You are subscribed to flasher as: webmasterohmsystems [dot] com

>

To unsubscribe, email leave-flasher-479002Plists [dot] chinwag [dot] com

>

>

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

thomas.moeller

webmasterohmsystems [dot] com

www.ohmsystems.com

www.sterlingplans.com

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