I'm thinking of developing an application with Adobe Flash CS4 but I'm having some serious quality issues when importing material from Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Fireworks CS4.When I import the material as a bitmap, the quality is better (then importing as movieclip) but not good enough.I was just wondering, how do the pro's do it? All the big companies, organizations ect ect.
View 1 RepliesThe quality of my gradients needs to be as good as in Photoshop. But no matter what I do, they look choppy (with banding). Here an example: Flash (Timeline or AS3 the same) / Photoshop
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I have a movie that loads images from an external source based on paths contained within an .xml. As far as I can see, there is no restriction to the size of the loaded image, which are are JPEGs, hence flash will not have these images resized. The images look fine when loaded in Photoshop or viewed separately, but the quality is just awful when loaded within the movie.
I've tried the usual hints like increasing JPEG quality in Publish Settings, but understand that since these images are not imporated into Flash CS5 before compiling, but are instead loaded when the .swf is run, these settings would not have any effect.
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Basically, my problem is that I have a movie that loads images from an external source based on paths contained within an .xml. As far as I can see, there is no restriction to the size of the loaded image, which are are JPEGs, hence flash will not have these images resized. The images look fine when loaded in Photoshop or viewed separately, but the quality is just awful when loaded within the movie.I've tried the usual hints like increasing JPEG quality in Publish Settings, but understand that since these images are not imporated into Flash CS5 before compiling, but are instead loaded when the .swf is run, these settings would not have any effect.Does anyon
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In it are about 20 thumbnails that, when clicked, open up into large ~750x600 images. The images contain some text on them. In Flash itself, the images open up properly and look great. But when the site is placed on the web (and the html code below is used), the images are resized to smaller, poorer quality and the text (on the images) is practically unreadable. I have tried the images as jpegs and pngs - both look crappy on the web.
I use the following html code to make the site fit peoples' various browser window sizes. This is what is causing my problem, because when I don't use this html code the images look fine. But, I NEED to use this code in order for the site to fit various browser windows.
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<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" id="index.swf">
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So how can I make my site fit the browser window WITHOUT ruining my images in the process? How can I 1) keep the image sizes constant, or 2) let the images resize along with the rest of the site, but keep them in good quality?
I'm trying to create a small animated graphic but under gif. format looks terribleI am missing any trick or should I try other format (which)?
View 5 RepliesI'm building a flash website where I'll show my tv commercial works. In the flash project I placed a FLVPlayback component that will play different flv videos. Those videos look very good and crispy when played in quicktime player. But when I export the swf from flash and play it the videos look bad with a lot of compression artifacts and pixelation.To show you what I exactly mean you can go to my website (url...) and click the 8th video in the scroll panel. Compare it's quality with the link to which refers the (url...)
View 1 RepliesI'm getting reduced image quality when I modify my MovieClip's .rotationY property. I've read that flash converts the object into a bitmap which explains the reduction in quality. However my MovieClip will eventually return to it's default position .rotationY = 0; and i don't want it to have a loss in quality.
View 1 RepliesI make my textfield and wrap it in a movieclip and add it to the stage, and it looks great. As soon as I make it a linkage class (ClientText) and add it with
var clientText = new ClientText ();
clientText.x = 75;
clientText.y = 60;
addChild(clientText);
It gets really rough (see image attached) any idea how I can fix this?
I've had no such problem like this until today. Basically when i try and drag an object from photoshop to the stage in flash, everything looks great on the stage and usualy everything looks fine in the test / debug mode. But suddenly i've come up against a very anoying problem. Everything looks great on the stage, but as soon as I go to test the movie, the image quality of whatever it is I have imported goes terrible. Like its been compressed to less than 10kb!The image looks fine on the stage but the problem accurs when I try to test to movie.I have tried importing different size images, not transforming the images in flash, making sure all the settings (I know of) are on high.
View 2 RepliesNow, after my flash player update from 10.0 to 10.2.152, resized image quality is poor. Also quality depends on original image dimensions, even 1px difference in width or height for same user's original image for some reason can affect differently on quality of resized image.Actionscript Code:
result = new FileWork(Bitmap(loader.content));
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package fgm{ import flash.net.*; import flash.system.*; import
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Does anyone notice that, for a dynamic text field, the font quality changes with font size?It will consistently become suddenly bolder at certain font size!URL...It will only not happen if font is embedded...but due to file size this is often not possible!Is this a flash bug/limitation?
View 1 RepliesSo I have a 5 minute animation that has narration to explain what is going on. First I ran into synching problems when I had the sound as an external file. Today I found a tutorial that had me import the mp3 file into the library, put it on its own layer and put the synch setting in properties to "stream". Now when I play the movie in flash the audio still sounds normal but when I test or publish the movie the sound quality goes so far down it's intolerable. She sounds like Yosemite Sam with all the Suffering Suckatash. This is pretty urgent, my graduation next week pretty much depends on this project.
View 2 RepliesThe audio is fine in the flash file but it is bad in the quicktime or swf file I exported.
View 4 RepliesI am using TweenMax to animate the z coordinates of a movieclip containing vector type. So far I've only done a super-simple pan out/zoom in, but I feel like I must be doing something wrong because the type looks awful when it's zoomed out and in. I would think that a vector object should look great at any size, but its very pixilated.
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step1();
function step1()
{
TweenMax.to(mc_z, 1, {z:5000, delay:1, onComplete:step2});
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I modified a version of the xml photo gallery tutorial featured on this website, and am using that. But when my images pop up the quality is horrible. I've gone through and checked everything I know to look at. Then I decided to build my flash site twice as big, and use pictures that were twice as big to get some quality. This didn't work either..
View 4 RepliesSame file streamed from FMS4 (same on 3.5) with rtmp protocol has very poor quality compared to real file quality. Is there some low level configuration to do on Flash Server? Is the streaming server making some kind of transcoding before sending the stream? Or it can be Flash Player? Tried unchecking "hardware acceleration" but nothing changes. I am on a local gigabit network, so no network bottlenecks. Video seems very pixelated on the edges (not soft/antialiased). These are the file details:
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I'm trying to get a transparent image to fly in from the side. So, I *thought* I was doing the correct thing by moving the "symbol" off of the visible portion of the stage, and creating a motion tween to move it onto the stage. The motion works, but the quality of the image in general (and the text in specific) looks pixelated.Thus, I did a little bit of snooping, and everyone said that you should start with a bitmap. So I saved the image from Photoshop into .bmp format, and was able to set the properties to "allow smoothing" and with lossless compression. So far, so good. Now, as I expected, the transparency is no longer there...
So here's the question: how can I make this image retain its quality, still have transparency, and a motion tween?It seems like this is some set of characteristics that don't play well together, even though I see this type of thing online ALL the time.I tried "Trace Bitmap" to convert to a raster image, and tried to follow some suggestions online, but when I do "Trace Bitmap", it ends up looking like it has a bunch of grayish dots on the image... definitely NOT what I was expecting.
I am using Flex for displaying videos streamed using the Red5 server. Basically i have two perspectives - one who relays and one who receives the broadcast. On the Flex side, in the video display, the video quality is good but on the receiver side it appears pixelated. I can't find the cause. Does this have anything to do with Flex encoding of videos or any Red5 server settings?
View 1 RepliesWhen I preview this the video quality is really bad, and I don't know of anyway to improve it. There is Camera.setQuality but it is only for use with flash media center.
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Possible Duplicate: Lint tool for actionscript? I'm looking for source code quality tool (others call it "static analysis" tools) for Adobe Flash. Something like JSLint for JavaScript or JLint for Java.
View 1 RepliesI have a draggable popup window that has a title bar and an iframe in its content area. The iframe has a flash object embedded in it. It works great in all browser except for IE8 (IE7 and IE9 work fine). IE8 has a bad drawing problem when the window is being moved. Here's an example:Open the example in IE8, or if you're using IE9, hit F12 for developer tools, then select Browser Mode: IE8 using IE8 Standards.Drag the window around quickly and you'll see a very bad redraw of the iframe.
View 1 RepliesI am using Flash Professional 8 and Dreamweaver 8 to maintain a website. I have just started using flash to show video highlights from high school football games which I record. Using iMovie I export the video as quicktime file and then import to flash to convert to a flash video file to post on the web site. The video coming out of iMovie has very good contrast and the quicktime movie has the same good contrast. When looking at the file in Flash the contrast changes dramatically. I becomes washed out. I am using Max OX 10.6 operating system.
View 2 RepliesIn my machine I have installed only Adobe Flash CS5 proffesional trial version. Now this installation is not supporting adobe.utils.Extension class in this version. I have tried with all latest updates from adobe site. My doubt is does adobe.utils.Extension class is available in licensed version of Adobe Flash CS5 proffesional?
View 12 RepliesI want to create a simple game (Adobe Air) based on 2 players using ActionScript 3.Let's assume I want to create online chess game.So that I can play with my friend at work, at home, from anywhere via internet.Should I use flash server? Or something similar for this purpose, or there is simpler way to connect 2 players and make fully functional interaction between them?
View 2 RepliesI recently upgraded my IE from 8 to 9 and immediatly saw problems with text. No problems in loading, or giving errors, etc. Just quality of some text.
With IE9, in many of my flash (cs4) applications, text that had been quite sharp is now blurry and hard to read. Some text is fine, other poor, and I cannot seem to see what is common to the places where text is poor. If I shift to IE8 compatability, all is fine there. Back to IE9, the problem.
If in IE9 I check in Internet Options/advanced to "use software rendering not GPU rendering", my IE9 flash stuff looks fine. That solves in my end, but obviously no help for publishing on the web. (This was a recomendation somewhere.) have apps that looked fine, only to have parts of them almost unreadable when viewed in IE9. All fine in Opera, firefox, safari, IE 8/7. Has always been somewhat a problem in chrome, but have seen where that is a documented problem.
I really need your help on a project I'm doing for work. I have searched the posts but haven't been able to fix my issue. (I'm using Flash CS5 and AS3.)I've recently been given Flash + the job of creating flash presentations for flat-screen displays around the building. The movie only needs to be played on click every now and again so it isn't running 24/7 or anything.So far I've managed to create a simple vector-based movie (a couple of minutes long) and created a projector, which runs perfectly on my computer.I eventually need the exe. to run on the following computer/screen we've already bought for the job:At the moment the movie runs significantly slower on this pc, with the frame-rate struggling, especially with some movie clip zooms and alpha fades.Have you guys got any ideas what I can do to increase playback performance? Have I made any newbie mistakes? How would you maximise frame-rate performance fullscreen without losing too much quality. I've created the movie to the resolution of the screen (1366 x 768). Was this the right thing to do or should I create it smaller then blow it up?
The movie plays fine if I exit fullscreen and reduce the window to about half size. Being new to Flash, I'm afraid I don't really understand why this is the case? The processer is running high but isn't at max, and with 2GB memory I thought it would be able to cope.I've tried lowering the frame-rate from 24 to 20, turning off hardware acceleration on the projector, chopping the movie into smaller swf's to play arfter each other. Nothing seems to be making much difference with those zooms at fullscreen. I've also read that preloaders don't do much for projectors so I can't use that. Is it better to embed text with the swf or have it separate?I really would like to avoid this but, Is the only solution to re-do the movie with less zooms etc?As you can see I haven't got much scripting other than frame 1 and play movie clip commands (not shown), would creating the zooms in AS3 improve the performance? [code]
I'm looking for ways to improve the video performance of FLVs. My AS3 video player plays multiple FLV videos synchronously. It can be used on the client's computer as we zipped it all up and tested it from the desktop, or from the server. The frame rate of the videos is 29FPS, it plays around 12, but drops below that regularly.
I have used both the FLVPlayback and Video Class, the video class had a slightly better FPS rate than FLVPlayback component: 1 - 2 FPS.
When publishing a project from Camtasia Studio 7, the params list includes a setting for quality. But instead of the usual "high" value, it sets it to "best". I Google'd and searched these forums but had no luck finding any definitive explanation if these two settings are equivalent. Can anybody enlighten? This topic also spurred another question, does the quality default to the highest value if the parameter value is invalid?
View 2 RepliesI ran into a problem when attempting to draw long line segments - some lines will be poorly scaled and appear very thick. I ran into this issue when building a Google Maps Flex application and thought the problem resided there, but I then tested with a basic Flex application and duplicated the problem.
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var _lineSprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
Application.application.rawChildren.addChild(_lineSprite);
_lineSprite.graphics.lineStyle(
6, // thickness
0xFF0000, //color
1.0, //opacity
true, //pixel hinting
LineScaleMode.NONE);
_lineSprite.graphics.moveTo(-70000,-20000);
_lineSprite.graphics.lineTo(400, 400);
The code above will draw a line segment that is much thicker than the desired 6 pixels. The problem can be seen here: [URL]. Once the page loads, click the "Show Custom Polyline" button, then the "Zoom to Problem Coordinates" button and you should see two line segments - one very thick and one thin. They should both be the same width as the thin line. Strangely, in the code sample I posted above, if the starting coordinates for the line are changed from -70000, -20000 to -70000, 20000 or to -140000, -40000 the line draws correctly. I'm using Flash Player 10.