Flash :: Awful Quality

Quality Of Video Encoder Is Awful
I am trying to convert a .wmv file to .flv with the flash 8 video encoder. I've tried numerous setting changes yet nothing seems to make a difference with the quality of the video. I notice a difference in the quality of the audio when I change those settings, but even when setting the video encoding to high/700 kbs the first 10-15 seconds look awful and terribly pixelated. After those 10-15 seconds, it seems to clean up pretty well. I've made sure my source file isn't like that and I've tried the Sorenson and On2 VP6 codecs but neither seems to make a difference. Anyone know what else I can do? Thanks.

Really Awful Bug
I saw something for a crank here the other day. But this really is a immensely bad bug that needs to be fixed.

1. Create a graphic symbol that has two different bits of art in frames 1 and 2 respectively.
2. Put a copy of the graphic symbol on the main timeline on frame 1
3. Make key frames at 10 and 20
4. Select the instance on Frame 1 and set its looping to single frame 1.
5. Select the instance on Frame 10 and set its looping to single frame 2.

So far so good. Everything works as expected. Now the problem.

7. Select the instance on Frame 10 and set its tint or one of the other color effects.

The graphic instance resets to its frame 1 content.

Additionally I've seen several problems while trying to test and reproduce this where the graphic doesn't correctly show the contents of the frame that is set. Often it doesn't show any content at all. This is disastrous for anyone who wants to do timeline animations.

Awful Syntax
I'm still getting the hang of syntax on certain things.

If I've got a movie clip (let's say it's called 1) and on rollover, I want another MC (container_mc, an empty, dynamic text box) to display a certain set of text, would the following script work?

this.onRollOver = function(){
_root.container_mc.trace('You have rolled over button 1!')
};

Ok, it doesn't work. Does anyone know what will?

Another Startdrag Prob (this I Think Rather Awful)
I have this scroller I took from a tutorial, in fact is rather simple. In the main window i have 2 objects/clips, one (ListMovie) with the text I fill dinamically with a script from a xml file, and the other that is the scroller.

The thing is like this: the first clip, is holding inside another movie, with another movie inside containing 2 layers (1 for a button and other for the dynamic text using variable). But the button with the action is inside 2 levels (2 clips inside) from the main movieclip (here _root). Within, i put inside this scroller (2clips inside) an action with --startdrag (ListMovie, false, 0, 258.50, 0, 0);-- all this inside an onPress() event; this scroll 'ListMovie'.

But the problem is when I put ALL this inside of another file/movie, using the above clip as external on holder (loadmovie, with target defined), just wont work, can u help me out plz. (I know, I know, i have read about 3000 thousand articles [no joke] the _root and _parent thing is not working at all --startdrag(_root.ListMovie or _parent.ListMovie)--

Really, don´t know how to do that...
I´m kinda new in this ActionScript stuff, what I saw with this scroller was the easy code inside, just startdrag inside of an onEvent() ...

Plzzzzzzzzzzzz help me out, I promise to serve you from this on :P

Thx in advance.

PD. here I´ll try to put a graphical explanation of the levels used at the movieclip with those 2 elements, the list and the scroller, than I´ll try to explain the use of this movie inside of another, just to make this a little easier to visualize:

busq_maestros (movie file, _root):
<-- ListMovie (mc)
<<-- Layer 1 (ditto)
<<<-- Selector (mc)
<<<<-- Button (layer)
<<<<-- Text (layer)
<<<<<-- menu (dynamic text, variable)
<-- MENUSCROLL (mc)
<<-- outline (layer)
<<-- handle (layer)
<<<<-- sliderhandle (mc)
<<<<<-- handle (layer, w/actions for button)
<<<<<<-- button
<<--- indent (layer)

inicio (movie file, _root):
<-- multiple layers
<-- one of them:
<<-- dir_maestros (mc, holder for 'busq_maestros')

If you need to post the .fla file just tell me

PD2. you can check the fla files at: http://ebrain.dyndns.org/inicio.zip
thx

.Mov, Audio Sound's Awful
Hi,

I'm not a Flash user so bear with me, but I would really appreciate your help as this is making me pull my hair out.

I'm trying to embed some video in a Flash presentation I'm making. I'm importing a .mov file which has the audio formatted to .wav, cd quality. Now when I embed the video I can hear the audio but it sounds absolutely awful, distorted, low resolution and sometimes with high pitch clicking noises. Playing around with the video import settings (eg. raw, uncompressed, ticking, unticking boxes) is making some of my clips work but not all. I don't understand? Why is this happening? When I originally edited the video in FinalCutPro5, I limited it with a Waves L1 limiter, is the audio too high? It sounds perfect when played alone in quicktime, no distortion at all.

Please help!

Scaling Image (looks Awful)
http://tinyurl.com/6xshb2

just an example but as you can see as the logo scales up it flickers and looks interlaced. its a simple actionscript tween using _xscale/_yscale. ive tried allow smoothing on the jpeg, the animation looks better but ruins the image quality.

is there any option for resolving this other than completely redrawing the logo in flash? quite an annoying issue that surprisingly i havent come across before

Makin' Awful Effects... Please Answer
while surfin' through the web I found this: LepreKong
if u reach the 2nd level, the big green man falls down and then:

the great effect! the window is bumpin'...

I'd like to add this effect to my page I'm workin on at the moment, but i got no idea how to do...
maybe some one of u may help me...
actually i don't even know if this is an effect in flash or any other prog!???
thanx and c ya!

Awful Question -- Keyframe Movieclips
Hey Everyone,

I have a movieclip that has about 10 different "states". All of these states have some text and 1, 2 or 3 buttons.

I have created a class for this movieclip and jumping between the states is simple using gotoAndStops(), but I can't figure out how to access the different buttons...

Using this.getChildbyName() in the constructor returns nothing. Using the same inside the methods that "gotoAndStop", also do nothing.

Can anyone PLEASE help me out? Such a simple question I am sure, but I am totally lost at the moment!

Thanks,

--d

Logo With Text Looks Awful In Flash
hi all -
any idea why this logo looks awful in flash?
Just a normal jpeg?

the text in the logo looks terrible...
and when i open the logo in fireworks it looks fine!

i stuck a motion tween on this instead of a shape tween as the logo moves a bit in position when it gets to the small state..

http://www.beyondyourdreams.co.uk/UrbanSpaceBanner.html

many thanks!!

Keeping Objects Vertical (MX) - Sorry Awful Description :(
hi,

i'm trying to adapt a .FLA from flashkit.com which creates a "tree"

at present, there is an MC of a line with a round button at the end.

this MC is played on startup - clicking on the button plays the MC from the centre of the button out in a random direction, creating another branch.

the result is a tree-like design.

I want to adapt this so text can be added to each "node", however, i have realised that as each branch is just the MC rotated, any text (or any kind of design dependant on vertical alignment) could be upside down.

you can see my problem here:
http://www.sojomedia.com/tree/tree.swf

Would it be possible to "start" a seperate MC (which would be vertical at all times) at the end-point of each new node-MC?

I am not expecting you to provide a detailed answer - some information as to whether this would be possible would be ideal. (maybe a few hints too ;)

You can see the original (and code) here, at flashkit.com:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scri...-1855/index.php

any help greatly appreciated,

thanks,

jeff

Flash Typography And PNG Graphics Display Awful In Ie
Pomade is a design collective located in Manhattan-

www.pomade.tv

Awful Problems With Flash Contacts Form..
Hi all I am in the process of making a flash form for my site, but I just cant seem to get it to work so I was wondering if anyone would mind looking at my code please?

The Flash stuff (made a button called send and put these actions on it)

Code:
on (release) {
if (txtname eq "" or txtemail eq "" or txtsubject eq "" or txtmessage eq "") {
stop();
} else {
loadVariablesNum("form.php", 0, "POST");
gotoAndStop(2);
}
}
I have 4 text fields with the correct var names txtname txtemail txtsubject and txtmessage.
I also have the following php..

Code:
<?php
$to = "my mail address";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$txtemail = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$txtmessage = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>
I really cant see where I am going wrong, as no emails are being sent
to that address. If anyone could help I would be really grateful.

Many thanks

Sli

Image Quality Lost, Exported At 100% JPEG Quality
I am working on a Flash website for a design group to display their work. These designs needed to be scaled down to fit the format of the website and many of these designs have body copy with small text. In the FLA file they look ok, but when I export the SWF, the text looks really bad.I know JPEG compression isn't very good for text but even when I export at 100% JPEG quality it still ends up looking different. The text looks very "sparkly" with the thins of the letters have been lost. The original assets that they gave me were all in one photoshop file at 150dpi with one design per layer and some of the text were just slightly pixelated if you zoom in (all text were rasterized and flattened into the designs). Some of the same images supposedly from that file had been used on their previous site with no problem. On some of the images in the PSD I can see that some of the thin strokes in the letters had been lost a little from scaling the designs down. This has been really frustrating and I can't think of how to rememdy this problem. Anyone have any suggestions?

-Sorry I did not realize that someone had already asked the smae type of question. I am trying the suggestions from the other thread.

<param Name=quality Value=low> Plays High Quality Flash
I want to adjust some flash content on my site depending on user rights.
The systems shows a slide show with swf/images, if the user is logged in he will also see a list of thumbnails with all flashes that is going to appear in the sideshow. This list is contained within XHTML markup and has nothing to do with the slide show other than containing the individual slides.

It would be nice if I could set the quality for the swf's in the thumbnails to low since 10-20 high res flashes tend to use a lot of CPU. Using <param name=quality value=low /> to achieve this has so fare granted no success.

Things I've tried so far are:

1. Setting <param name="quality" value="low" /> for the individual flashes in the thumbnail list. The flashes are still displayed in high res. Tried using " ' and no hyphens.
2. Sending the flash var _quality=low through the src of the thumbnail list elements. <param name="movie" value="/src/flash/movie.swf?_quality=low" /> with and without hyphens.
3. Googling quality settings for flash which all say to use <param name="quality" value="low" />

Things to point out:
1. I have no control over the swf. These come from all sort of people so I need to be able to adjust the quality via the web page.
2. I've tried different ways of writing the quality strings. value='low' value="low" value=low and so on.
3. The quality settings change if i right click and select quality -> low but they always start at high.
4. The source code writes what I expect it to, the flash simply ignores the values I send it.
5. I'm using a windows based machine with Fire Fox 2 and CS2, the site uses XHTML and my flash player is 9,0,124,0

Edited: 08/28/2008 at 07:55:30 AM by Cbastus

Low Quality Movie With High Quality Files?
hello again...well in the meantime the only way i managed to keep my pixel fonts crisp is by putting the movie quality to low ...however...i have some graphics in it that really won't show with low quality. is there any way i can have the movie at low quality yet be able to show certain graphics in high quality? perhaps by importing them in a certain format, or can i apply a property to them or someting??? or is it all or nothing?

i would appreciate any suggestion!

TY!

Low Quality Mc In High Quality Movie
the thing is....
i have my movie which is in high quality then i want one movieclip within this movie to be low quality, so i gave it this action:

onClipEvent (load) {
_quality=low;
}

this didnt work and the whole thing is still in high quality.

i'd appreciate anyone telling me what i'm doing wrong!
THX!!

High Quality To Low Quality Question
I have a loader taking up frames 1 - 3 that I want to remain as high quality and then from there on in frames 4 - 19 I want as low quality.

I have added on frame 1

_quality=high

and then on frame 4

_quality=low

But this does not seem to work - it seems to always be low quality throughout.

Where am I going wrong? - Any help would be so so so so welcome

Thanks in advance
Jools

Changing Low Quality Back To Hi Quality
Hi
i am making a CD rom with a lot of levels in flash

the misic is on level0
submenus on level 1
mainmenu level 3

any way when i load one swf onto level 1

this swf is flash lowquality file
which is fine as this is needed to run the movie

however after i unload the movie or press another option on the main menu

everything stays in low quality mode
is there some script that will bring the whole flash movie and all levels back to high quality?

hope someone can help
cheers

Cannot Alter "document-jpeg-quality" And "use Imported Jpeg Quality"?
sometimes in MX i can always choose between "use document default jpeg-quality" or "enter an integer for quality" for imported jpeg-data. (possibly jpgs generated with photoshop 6)
sometimes i can never - i just have to choose between "use imported jpeg-quality" or "enter an integer for quality".
(definitely jpgs generated with photoshop 7)

can anyone tell me why this happens?

are there preferences in photoshop 7 that solve my problem?

thanxx jo

Quality
How would I be able to preset the quality of my movie to "medium"? I want to make the quality of the movie "medium" so the viewer doesn't have to toggle the quality.
Thanks

Better Quality
how do i get better quality out of my flash text
graphics?

When Quality Set To Low... Could You Help?
Hi
I have problem with my flash site.
http://www.tpu.fi/~t1tluoma/

In my navigation panel pictures appear over it when mouse is on, but when quality is set to low, those pictures won't appear in right place anymore. Why?
Please check.

Thanks.

Low Quality
I finished an intro sequence and it looks like crap, all pixelated and such when i test the movie. What can i do to fix this? I am suing flash 4, Thanks.

Quality Changes
Hi just finished my portfolio site at

http://www.gadgetproductions.com

and have been asking for feedback in the new site forums, it seems the player switches to a low quality setting on some peoples machines rendering the text etc. illegible. Can anyone confirm this and tell me how I stop this from happening...

I have spent three months completeing this site and am using it to try and get work so any help would be hugely appreciated!!

Tv Quality
Hi

is it posible to use flash for tv quality movie
how can i do it?

thanks

CHE

Quality
Is it possible to set Quality rendering to specified MC, like
bubles._quality = "low";
except that do not work, SO IS THERE some other way to do it?

Quality
Does anyone know if the following is possible?

Have a movie clip at high quality. Loads another movie clip in at high quality. Then the first movi clip changes its quality to low or meduim while it does a peticular animation, but the other movie clip it loaded stays at high quality?

SO basicly what i am asking is... Can differant movieclips be at Didderant qualitys?

Better .jpg Quality ?
hello,

When I load in my external .jpg files into my flash movie, the quality of the .jpg´s that shows gets kind of bad.

Do anyone have any tip on how to improve the .jpg quality?

thx

Bad Fps Quality
Hi,
Im not sure if this is supposed to go in the newbie section, but anyways...
I just made the first page of a flash website and it seems to be lagging when the motion tween starts playing. The movie is set to 24 fps in case you were wondering. It is hard to explain but once you see it u will get what i'm talking about. Go over the buttons while they are still coming in and you can see how smooth they are, but once the motion tween where the background changes comes in, the buttons are really laggy. Not that much is going on in the movie so i dont know why it is doing it. Any help would be appreciated. I attached the .fla file and you can view it at: http://www.testsite.filetap.com

Thank you,
Aaron

Quality
Hi,
i hope u all r doing fine, I was just wondering if u could help me with my problem, whatever clip i make on flash whenever i preview it the quality of the graphics is not as good as of the orional .fla file. i mean the in .swf the quality is decreased.
help me if can.
thanks

Jpg Quality
Hi guys,

I have one .fla file with only one scene (an intro scene). In that scene there are several jpg and when the file plays this one sees perfectly.
Even so, when I add other scene (even an empty scene) the quality of
those jpg it's bad.
Could anyone help me, please? What is going wrong? How can I repair it?

TIA

JPG Quality
Hello, i tryed this clip._quality="BEST"; and it doesn't work my jpg still looks like mhell in my movie can anyone help me with this?

Low Quality
simple question, whats the actionscript that u put in the begginning of a movie to set it to low quality?

[MX] AVI Quality
I have a bit of a problem. To make my animations less time consuming I use a lot of animated symbols then pull them onto the stage. As an SWF or HTML file that works fine but when I convert the file to an AVI or quicktime file the animated symbols don't move. can anyone help me find a way around this or am I just going to have to animations the hard way?

Bad Quality?/
here i hav a serious problem

when i save any animation made in flash 8...as animation gif.

they ask for dpi [resolution] [match screen]

after that the saved animation has a very bad qaulity

plz help me out of this biggggg problem??

GIF QUALITY
I have to export my flash movies as a gif but the image quality is bad when I do that. Is there any way to keep the quality of the image in a gif?

thanks

Best Possible Quality SWF To FLV
in your experience, how can you get excellent quality when converting a SWF to FLV.. SWF is long animation with alpha channels, and needs to be FLV. As of now, using FLV encoder, the quality isn't so great, on highest settings.. any suggestions out there?

Quality
i cant seem to figure out what the problem is when i save my advertises into animated gifs the quality just become horrible here an example.

http://www.acegam.com/advertises/pcube.gif

Tv Quality
can u make flash that could be converted into an advertisment that could be broadcasted for television? I am interested in making a commercial for artists touring in my area for a promoter.

Thanks in advance!

JPG Quality
I am working on a portfolio site for a photogpraher so the quality of jpgs is very important. I want to know what the ideal way is? When I used 150dpi on my site and had the sliding bar etc, the image quality was very poor. so, what dpi/how to load/any tricks/etc. Anything would help -
thanks.

JPG Quality II
I asked about the jpg quality before a couple days ago and someone sent me the thread below, which answered most of my questions.

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95380

And this may sound a little retarded but how come the professional photography studios and stuff manage to make their pics look so luminous and sharp? Whats the trick?

Quality
Hey im just wondering why whenever i see a flash site with imported graphics or pics it has like this ugly thing around it like the quality.....
anyone know what i mean? is it my player browser or does everyone see it?

I took a screenie and circled some things i often notice
And the site i used was http://www.royalcartel.com/update/

Very nice site but i just used it so i could figure out my problem
Heres the screenie http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=qulaity7cm.png

Awful Quality

Hey, i had a question. When i preview or save my flash files, whatever i do, the quality of my picture somehow turns awful. I tried saving it as a .bmp and importing, but nothing helps. Someone please help! Thanks in advance