Re: FLASH: proportions $ stuff

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:52 PM 2/6/00 , you wrote:


>Hi !

>Could someone tell me please - the correct proportions to make a full page 

>flash movie that can be viewed as intended in every resolution.  I've been 

>working in 1024x768 and now have to start from scratch to make it viewable 

>for 640x480 and 600x800 res.

>Is there a golden formula somewhere?  Or just hard work needed!


Actually, all those resolutions have the same proportions (4:3). If your 

movie is all vector, it will scale fine to any size. If you use bitmaps, 

you will probably want either to display it at a fixed size. Optimally you 

would use bitmaps at 100% (that is, they're brought into the Flash movie at 

100% and the movie displays at its actual stage size) -- they will look 

best that way. It's okay to scale them smaller in the display, but they 

don't always look great that way. They definitely will start to look 

pixelated (jaggy) if you display them larger than their original size. The 

key point here is that bitmaps convey information for every pixel of the 

image, so you want those pixels of information to line up with the pixels 

on the screen.


I suspect part of your problem is that you're trying to figure out the 

right proportions to use the entire available browser screen, which of 

course is not to the same proportions as the monitor viewing area. In fact, 

there's no way to anticipate the available browser area because of the 

different browsers and the user's ability to expand or collapse toolbars. 

Lately I have been using a ratio of 755:415 and this seems to be a good 

compromise. If working in all vector, I might double or triple these 

numbers just to be able to work in higher resolution (easier to see and 

line things up; more zoom power).


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

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