Re: FLASH: Flash and custom palettes

[John Dowdell]

I'm not sure why JPEG in HTML wouldn't do the job... d'you want the wood

chips to come spinning and rotating at the viewer, or is there some other

reason to embed...?


You can import a bitmap to Flash. You have some control over its

compression within the SWF, but not as much as if you tweaked the GIF or

JPEG for normal use.


(Flash's best use is with curve-based art... it can add sound, and pixels,

and interactivity, but the great driving force is the curves.)


Summary: If the tweaking of compression on 4000 photos is a prime

criterion, then you'll have most control if you compress right into your

delivery format.



At 4:43 AM 12/17/98, Richard D. Miller wrote:

>We're considering Flash as the primary means to present approximately

>4000 individual pictures at our web site (www.forestworld.com). Nearly

>1000 of these are of detailed wood patterns, where we've optimized the

>images (approx. 3x3 inches in size) to display in 256 color environments.

>(All of this comes from a CD we've been selling around the world for the

>past five years). We'd like to use Flash IF there is some way to store

>the custom palettes so that the individual Flash movies (each containing

>one picture) would appear photo-quality for users with monitors set to

>256 colors. If not, we'll have to stick with conventional JPEG (which,

>under 256 colors, does not do a good job with our graphics).

>

>The 1000 wood images are currently stored as PICT images. They could be

>converted to other formats if necessary.




John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US


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