Re: FLASH: using film footage

[John Dowdell]

At 8:19 AM 7/18/0, Melissa Jacobson wrote:

> Is there any way to bring film or video images into Flash?


You're probably already aware of the file formats for import... the more

significant question is likely "What are practical ways to use certain

content?" and it's hard for others to answer without knowing that content,

that audience, that message.


Here's some background info which may help... it goes into some differences

between video styles and sprite styles:

"Flash for Videographers and 3D Animators"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14494


Sidenote: For much video content, you'll get far smaller filesizes with an

actual video codec... besides handling pixel-level detail better, some

codecs offer intraframe predictive encoding.


Note too that pixel or vector representations of captured video imagery

differ in their detail/filesize benefits... a lot depends on the content

and the desired appearance and filesize.


jd






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