Re: FLASH: screen captures

[David Gary]

Curtis Bay wrote:


> With most screen shots you'll be better off sizewise and qualitywise by

> letting Flash do its best compression job on the bitmap as it is.

> Double-click your screen capture in the Library. Deselect "Allow

> smoothing" and change your "Export as" setting to Lossless.

>

> Export the movie and, using your size report, compare the size of the

> lossless compression with the JPEG. In most situations you will a a huge

> improvement in size without losing any image quality.

>

> Curtis

>


I found this to be untrue in most cases. Setting photographic images to

"lossless" (reguardless of "smoothing") increases the file size tremendously

95% of the time.

Even at 8bit they "look" better but are usually 3 times the file size when

in swf format.


-DG-



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