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

[Muzak]

or save yourself alot of time and download this (free) app that someone put together that converts avi/mpeg etc into swf. Just

import that into flash and you're done. I'd love to give you the url, but I lost all my bookmarks, reinstalled OS over the weekend

and forgot to back 'em up. So if someone knows the program i'm talking about (vid2swf) and has the url :-)


Muzak



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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 7:34 PM

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



> 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.

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

> designabyte.com

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> good luck.t

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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?