FLASH: RE: video into flash WAS using film footage

[michael werth]

i just want to share some successful settings we used to get video from an

editing system (Mac) into flash (PC) as a guide layer (we didn't break it

into bitmap frames, just imagine it was used as a rotoscope layer). the

video came from a Media100 LX on a Mac, where the data rate maxes at

150kB/frame (this is a 30fps system).


Export from media100 as

-Quicktime

-Intel Indeo R3.2 codec

-(there's a quality slider but it's meaningless, over-ridden by the numeric

settings presumably)

-half-frame (after importing in Flash scale to 200%)

-12fps

-keyframe every 4 frames

-data rate limit 150kb/frame


these settings optimized speed (output approx 6x slower than real-time on a

G3/266) and quality (no pixellation) for our material. your mileage may

vary. we tested against other codecs and against other settings within the

codec.


just as a curiousity, the 12fps material in flash was consistently one to

three frames longer, if you did the math, then it was at 30fps in the NLE. I

don't know where the slight error was introduced. only important for TV

production i guess.


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

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



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