Re: FLASH: .swf to VHS???

[Jay K]

Use frame based animation and make sure you're using 30 frames per second

(fps) as your time base. Export as a Quicktime (4.x) and bring in the QT

movie. Export it out of QT pro as a DV stream and you're laughing.

The Sony system listed below is probably the Sony ES7 (worked on one for a

couple of years). They're alright, they will use a DV stream in from and

iLink (aka Firewire or 1394) port.

Basically as DV, you can bring your animation into an edit station like

Sony's, Media100 (v6 and up), Premier 5.1, After Effects 4.x, Final Cut Pro

1.2 (highly recommended) etc.

You'll want to reassemble your audio in one of those applications. You can

then output to VHS from those if you have a capture board like a Targa or

Media100.

Another reason you'll want to pass through one of those applications is to

correct your colour for NTSC playback (what VHS uses), otherwise you run the

risk of having over saturated colour that will bleed on a television monitor

(when the colour "ghosts" out over to one side of an image that is too

saturated).


HTH,

Jay K (former video guy, now possibly a flash guy - time will tell)


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>Any ideas how to get this .swf to VHS?


Uh oh, you've got some problems :) we recently output several small

animations from flash for use in tv commercials and it works rather well -

except, you need to use frame-by-frame animation (no movie clips, no

actionscripting). If you actually own QT Pro (rather than the free version)

you should be able to output with all the bells and whistles, but I'm not

sure if that will import for the video production or not. You might be best

off just to set-up the fla as a frame-by-frame animation specifically for

the video production. Wouldn't you rather do the audio track from the video

editing program anyway? We found we have more control that way (no complaint

about Flash's audio - it's great for the web!) The post-production company

we work with actually downloaded a trial version of flash to see what worked

best as output (without loss of resolution etc.) and we decided either QT or

avi work really well. They actually use a Sony System and Windows which is a

little unusual.


Not sure this was much help, but the whole experience was rather wonderful

so maybe there's a bit of useful information in there for you.


Laura

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