Re: FLASH: Video effect,h ow did they do that? Newbie Needs HELP

[Andy Mrozkowski]

Charles,

This is very time consuming, but produces a cool effect (as you've noticed).

First you have to get a bitmap series from Premiere. Either export movie a

still series, or frame capture every other frame (or every frame if the rate

is low enough)

Then you trace the every bitmap to convert to a vector.  They probably have

about 15-20 for each clip.

Flash will trace, but I have better success with Adobe Streamline. Be sure

to use a high color tolerance (that site is just black and white) and also

try to keep points (bezier) down to a minimum. Keep the file names the same

(you want #'s like image1.ai. image2.ai, etc) then, when you import into

Flash, it will recognize them as a sequence and put them into separate

keyframes all in a row.

hth

andy


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Subject: FLASH: Video effect,h ow did they do that? Newbie Needs HELP



> On several sites including http://www.the-control-group.com/ I can tell

> they've taken video footage and somehow brought it into the computer and

> done "something" with it to get a very fluid and cool look to the footage

in

> flash.

>

> Can anyone point me to any sites with instructions on how to do this?

Also,

> what is this effect called?

>

> I've got a DV camera and a complete digital editing video suite so I'd

think

> that I'd be able to do this, but I don't even know where to start.

>

> Thanks in advnace for your help.

>

> -Charles

>

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