Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Newman
I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). If you want to keep the vector animation, and if fullscreen is your main problem, you can use a fullScreenRect to force the renderer to a smaller draw

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-03-03 Thread Henrik Andersson
Kevin Newman skriver: I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). Maybe they are using actionscript? ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-03-03 Thread Karim Beyrouti
I developed an AIR app to export SWF to PNG sequences: http://swfrenderer.kurst.co.uk We developed it because flash was skipping frames and animation was not overly smooth on CPU intensive movies (be it code or timeline). We also had a few issues with the CS5 PNG/Movie exporter. It works with

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Newman
Actionscript works when exporting to QT ... Kevin N. On 3/3/11 12:15 PM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Kevin Newman skriver: I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). Maybe they are using

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Newman
Have you ever tried switching to 1FPS for exporting to QT? I wonder if that would skip fewer frames. You'd need to multiply your time based animations by whatever factor though... Kevin N. On 3/3/11 12:31 PM, Karim Beyrouti wrote: I developed an AIR app to export SWF to PNG sequences:

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-03-03 Thread tom rhodes
i've done this trick and it works great, and it was a scripted animation... On 3 March 2011 18:51, Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com wrote: Have you ever tried switching to 1FPS for exporting to QT? I wonder if that would skip fewer frames. You'd need to multiply your time based animations

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-26 Thread Christoffer Enedahl
It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. /Christoffer ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-26 Thread Henrik Andersson
Christoffer Enedahl skriver: It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. For some of the cases, yeah. You are right in that encoding to video would solve the issue for local playback. Give me a shout when you find a tool that actually can do it properly. But it is not

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-26 Thread Latcho
I hate super heavy cpu supersucker vector animations online, I prefer streaming video :) And vector animations compress way nicer to video as photographic content does. I think it is simple to write a tool that onenterframe captures any (swf-loaded) animation frame to a bitmap, which you can

[Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-25 Thread Henrik Andersson
I have been thinking a lot about the problem of optimizing animation playback. I know that some people here are unfamiliar with working with real animations and have been doing applications instead. Please consider this aimed at real animations like in movies and games. While the best

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-25 Thread Ktu
I don't have personal experience with this problem, but I did come up with some questions and ideas that might further your search. First off, it sounds like to me the requirement is to have a seamless playback of animations. No jitter, frameskips, or lag times. You are right, its quite the

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-25 Thread Henrik Andersson
You bring up a lot of valid points, but you fail to focus on the main concern here, how to deal with the graphics being the most heavy part. Please keep in mind that I am trying to focus on how to deal with animations that can't be simplified much. I am looking for a generic solution to the

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-25 Thread Ktu
But what can you do when you have exhausted your options to edit the content? You only got the quality setting left to use. - maybe then you've got to re-evaluate what you are doing or use the quality settings. How do you decide on the thresholds? Can you successfully predict when it is worth to

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle

2011-02-25 Thread Henrik Andersson
Ktu skriver: But what can you do when you have exhausted your options to edit the content? You only got the quality setting left to use. - maybe then you've got to re-evaluate what you are doing or use the quality settings. How do you decide on the thresholds? Can you successfully predict