Flash :: Possible Loss Of Quality

Jpg Quality Loss
I creating a simple photo site that dynamically loads jpg's through loadMovie and my problem is flash seems to be recompressing my jpgs and I'm getting some pretty unacceptable quality loss ( banding, artifacting).

I didn't notice this last night at home (using MX) but I noticed it today at work using MX 2004.

If I just load the jpg straight into the browser it is acceptable but if I load the same jpg with flash in a browser the quality degrades.

Is this normal? Can I make it so Flash doesn't recompress my files?

hers's he simple code I'm using:

Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 1);
holder.loadMovie("photos/"+(--num)+".jpg", 4);

Player quality settings are on high.

Site can be viewed here, the second bird shot or the plane shot are perfect examples

http://s89995399.onlinehome.us/

bird:

http://s89995399.onlinehome.us/photos/17.jpg

plane:

http://s89995399.onlinehome.us/photos/9.jpg

WMV To FLV Without Quality Loss
is there anyway to convert a WMV movie to a FLV file with out loosing video quality ?

Button Quality Loss
When I import a transparent image (both GIF and PNG) they look perfectly fine when I test them. However, when I make a button and place these together as a button (up, over down, hilt), the images suffer quality loss. I've explored all my options and I don't know how I can preserve the quality.

Loss In Sound Quality
whenever i change the sound clips from event to stream, the quality just goes down the toilet.

is this normal? can anything be done about it?

Quality Loss When Importing
When I import a file that I have saved with photoshop (as any file format) I loose quality and the pictures look lighter in color. What am I doing wrong?

Kris Murray

Loss Of Audio Quality
Some of my users complains that while viewing the live streaming of my application, the audio quality deteroriates over time. The audio tends to sounds jerky for a while and then the audio is completely lost. This happens when the video quality remains constantly acceptable, hence I don't think its a internet connection issue.
I am encoding my audio at 11025Hz and 20kbps. I wonder if anyone has encountered a similar problem or has a solution to this. Thanks!

Multipointing Quality Loss
I have setup two servers and have server to server streams going. When a user publishes a stream a netconnection is opened to the second server and once "NetConnection.Connect.Success" is received the netstream is created and then stream via Stream.get(name) is attached and publish. This works fine, the quality is the same on the second server.

The issue is when the netconnection is lost to the second server, and then reconnected. I setup the netstream the same way as when the netconnection first connected, however the quality after reconnecting is not the same.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? What would some possible causes of quality loss from server to server be? I am using the admin console to sample the streams.

Is There A Loss In Movie Quality When ....
Do you lose quality or processor speed when you load the movie to be played into a parent movie? Like, if the child movie is very processor-demanding would you lose quality just because it is not a single SWF, but an SWF calling another SWF into itself?

Because I have tried this out and the child movie seems to be choppier than when I run it by itself. Also, kind've off the subject, why does flash not detect the same fonts Photoshop does? Is there any way to control what fonts Flash sees?

Thanks you guys! I'm a lurker here but I knew this would be the right place to ask about technical flash stuff.

Horrible Loss Of Quality T_T
Whats wrong? everything was fine as you can see here in the preview mode in Flash MX:
http://free.hostultra.com/~zero25x/image.html
(the lines in the back look a little messed cuz i saved the screenshot in paint, but it looks clearer)

Now look what happens when i upload the SWF:
http://free.hostultra.com/~zero25x/site.html
(also in the preview, the preloaders borders dont look so messed up, but in the uploaded version they do)

Here are the image files im importing into the flash since they were requested:
http://free.hostultra.com/~zero25x/others.html

EDIT: Changed the links, so no more exeeded bandwidth

Edit #2: nvm fixed, u can click em now. gay host >_<

Sudden Quality Loss
Been working on this site for the last three weeks and all was going well when...I preview (as I had done before) and all my JPGs are appearing at medium or low quality.

Now here's the thing: if I right click while previewing, to pull up the contextual menu, and select "High Quality", they go back to looking great. WTF?? It's like I hit some switch that auto publishes images at a lower quality. Is that possible?

Any help much abliged.
gR

Loss Of Quality Of External Swf
hi

I get a loss of Quality of my external swf. When i run the swf file on its own the quality is as it should be, when i load this swf in a mc it losses it's quality what im i doing wrong.

thanks in advance

BMP Quality Loss In Motion Tween?
When I put an image in my flash (mx) file it's perfectly clear. But as soon as I use that same image in a motion tween, it's suddenly all smuthered and low quality.
I already checked some publish settings and it seems all is set well ("no loss", 100% export quality, etc.).

Can anyone tell me what could be wrong?
Thanks.

ROK.

[F8] Loss Of Quality Between Illustrator And Flas
Hi there guys - dunno if this is a common problem but I've just done a live trace on a photo in illustrator(cs2) and exported it as a swf, but when I open it in flash its full of little holes like its been perforated - same as an AI file - also the pictures I make in illu and photoshop are much duller in colour when opened in flash even when I make them in RGB - is this because the colour mode in flash on a different setting? how do you change it?
nice1 peeps - D

Scale Sprite Without Quality Loss
Hi.

I'm trying to make a menu that has a rounded rectangle as background. I'm using a sprite and the Graphics.drawRoundedRect method to draw this. The width of the rounded rectangle (it's actually a sub menu) depends on which choice is selected from a parent menu, and I want to animate the resetting of the width with an enterFrame event handler. I'm currently using the .width-property of the sprite, but this way the rounded corners of the rounded rectangle don't stay fixed, instead they are dragged out. Is there any way to resize a rounded rectangle and having the corners stay unaffected?

Hope this was understandable.

Henrik

[CS3] Exporting GIF (image Quality Loss)
I've made a little gif file in flash, when i preview it (swf), it looks just like what i want, but when i export/publish it as GIF, it doesn't look the same as what i want.

here's the GIF file.

i'm not very good at using the settings for the GIF. can anyone please help me with this problem? i want the GIF to be exactly like what i see in the SWF.

Strange Quality Loss After Publishing?
I created a page layout in Photoshop CS2 and imported it into Flash CS3. The layout looks crisp and clean in the Flash work area, but when I publish it, it's fuzzy? Even when the Jpeg Quality is set to 100%? Anyone else having this problem? This is the first time I've had this problem, so I'm not sure if it's a problem with Flash or Photoshop.

Image Quality Loss When Scaling DOWN
Im scaling from an image size of about 640x480 to something around 188x134 I can't remeber if those are the exact dimensions but they are poprotionate to the original image size however the lines in the image look more pixilated and boxy in flash, but in photoshop they look fine. Is there something I am doing wrong?

Image Quality Loss When Rotating
Anybody knows why it happens and if there is a way to fix that? When I rotate my imported image, the quality really suffers.

Jpeg Quality Loss When Using LoadMovie
I have a jpeg inside a movie clip which moves around and stuff. I've already compressed it using photoshop to make it as small as possible. It looks good in the .swf file when published.

However, when this same swf is loaded into another movie using loadMovie the there is a loss in quality.

I have set the publish settings for both files to best. In the library I have set the quality for the image file to best also.

What else can i try?

Jpeg, Any Bitmap, Import Quality Loss?
i know this has been asked about a million times and i have read the replys but now i cant find any of the threads - i have tried every diffrent file format possible but everytime i import an image into flash it gets lighter, noticeibly. i have embedded color profiles, saved at max quality, what is the trick to maintaining the quality/color of my images?

Bitmap Downsized -> Huge Quality Loss
Hi,

i have checked similar threads on this forum but don't really find a solution for my problem :

I have a bitmap of 1024x768 that i would like to rescale to 96x72. (so the ratio stays the same)
I've tried to put it in an mc and then resizing that mc to the smaller value, but the result is really poor. I recognise the bitmap, but it's really distorted.

But if i right click the stage and select 'zoom in' , it shows that the bitmap is still smooth.

does anybody know how i could make that smaller bitmap smoother?

thanks

Quality Loss In Loading External Movies
Hi,
I am loading external swf files in my main.swf, while doing so i'm experiencing a loss in quality of images or text in the loaded swf file. Any suggestions for getting around it ?

How To Resize Image To Full Screen Without Loss Of Quality?
How to resize a photo to full screen, irrespective of the user's screen resolution, and still keep the photo's quality crisp and sharp.

Look at this web site, the photos are full screen and the quality is perfect, and it doesn’t matter what screen resolution you have:
http://www.brook-pifer.com/

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!

I'm At A Loss
i'd like to create a "jeopardy"-style quiz game for use in an educational setting, but i have practically zero expereince with flash. the game doesnt need to be complicated, just categories with 5 questions, when $ amount clicked on, question is shown full screen, another mouseclick, back to category view. if at all possible, i'd like to be able to load dift categories and questions from a text file. can anyone point me in the right direction to get started with this? or is it beyond my very limited abilites?

thanx!

At A Loss, Here Is My .fla, Please Help
Hey everyone, I posted a few days ago asking for help but the suggestions I got didnt seem to get me anywhere, I've tried alot of stuff with no success, I think I need a real flash wizard to help me. I have this one last thing to do but I cant get it to work and its keeping me from moving forward on this project. Here is my fla (3 mb) http://notos.bartolsfeet.com/hall2.fla

What I'm trying to do is make a scroller so that everything but a medium sized rectangle is masked, and so the user can scroll up, down, left, right to view the entire movie (basically I'd like for everything in that fla to scroll in unison). I was hoping for something similar to this http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...6691/index.php
but at this point as long as everything in that fla will scroll in unison with a 'mouse over' and the animations and actions still work will be PERFECT lol, I'm desperate!! ;P
Thanks alot to anyone who helps

At A Loss...
I am trying to create a drop down menu and I thought I had done everything correctly. Apparently, I have not because when you mouseover the menu item, the hand appears but nothing drops down. I've spent the day pulling my hair out and going over everything and can't figure out where I've gone wrong. I've attached the file of my monstrosity if anyone cares to take a peek.

Thanks so much!

Bridget

Var Loss
I create a var in one frame:

Code:
stop ();
_root.onEnterFrame = function (){
var tempUsername:String = userInput_txt.text;
var tempPassword:String = passInput_txt.text;
trace(tempUsername);
}
next_btn.onRelease = function (){
if (userInput_txt.length >= 6 && passInput_txt.length >= 4 && passInput2_txt.length >= 4){
if (passInput_txt.text == passInput2_txt.text){
gotoAndStop ("NewUser2");
delete _root.onEnterFrame;
}else{
alert_mc.gotoAndStop ("CreateUserError2");
}
}else{
alert_mc.gotoAndStop ("CreateUserError1");
}
}
cancel_btn.onRelease = function (){
if (saver.data.existingUser){
gotoAndStop ("Login");
}else{
alert_mc.gotoAndStop ("CannotQuit");
}
}
In the second frame that var (tempUsername and all of them) become undefined. Why is this? (The second frame is in the same scene)

I'm At A Loss
Ok, so i've been trying to use the hitTest function, i've done alot of reading of it, but i just cannot get it to work >_<
This is the layout of the current Scene;

_____________________________/ -------Rollover#_MC
Scene 1 ----- Logo_MC ----- Text_MC
_____________________________ -------Play#_MC

Ok so thats the deal, now.
When i click on Rollover_MC, i want it to play - Play_MC.
I've been trying with hitTest, i cant get it to play when i click, the problem is, i can click anywhere and it will play. Instead of just on the Rollover_MC.

My current script is;

Code:
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.CPL.TextLoop.Rolloverone._xmouse, _root.CPL.TextLoop.Rolloverone._ymouse,true)) {
_root.CPL.TextLoop.one.gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
_root.CPL.TextLoop.gotoAndPlay(15);
}
}
I'm willing to use a onRollOver if i could get that to work. Any help would be appreciated. Its the only thing left to do!

Loss Of Colour
When importing PSD files from Photoshop the colour output is different. What format can you use in Photoshop to ensure the same colour output in Flash? I am using Photoshop 6.

PLEASE HELP.... PLEASE(Loss Of Ideas)
Hi guys..

I think i have tried everything here but this is not working.. I need help.. any help will be greatly appreciated..

I have 2 scenes in a movie a preloader and the main scene with 3 frame labels (1,2, and 3).. I also have a button called Navigate which when clicked opens a movie clip.. it shows a drop down Page 1, page 2 and page 3.. When one clicks on either of those 3 page numbers i want it to goto the appropriate frame label.. but it does not do so..

I am attaching the fla for your reference to see what is happening.

Thanks for your help
Uday

Var Loss In Scenes
Why is it whenever my flash movie enters a different scene all the variables from the other scene is erased? Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Swf Byte Loss
i'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed problems when uncompressing swf files out of zip archives?

often i have swf files that are off by 2 - 6 bytes when they come out of the archives. we are currently using zip archives to transport media between servers. i'm wondering if it is a zip problem or if it is a compression problem. switching to a new archiving method (.tar) is possible, but a huge level of effort becuase a lot of the .zip's are created by applications so it will require code changes both in the applications that create them and the apps that read them. it would be much simpler to just add in a compression property to stop compressing the files.

has anyone else run into this problem before?

Loss Of Sound In MX
I am running a fairly large flash mx fruit machine simulation program as a windows application. Every spin of the reels I create a new Sound() object,
attach the spin sound and start it, then stop it when the reels stop.
There are also a feew other sounds for holds etc. which happen frequently.
I have tried for days to fix this problem, but after a number of spins the sound distorts and then disappears completely. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this. Your help would be most appreciated, thanks.

Sound Loss
For some reason when I embed a quicktime movie in a flash swf when I publish it I lose the audio track does anybody know why?

Memory Loss
I used to do a lot in Flash, but have never considered myself to be an action script guru. However, the last time I did anything beyond creating motion tweens was in Flash MX, and right after it was released, so it's been a few years. Anyway, I have gotten to the point of not even knowing proper syntax in AS, but if I could find something basic (similar to WebMonkey's html cheat sheet) that would kick my brain back into gear I could catch up fast. Can anyone point me to some primers that would help my brain shake the rust off? I'd appreciate it.

FLV TO 3 GP AUDIO LOSS
Please help me with this one:
Using RHEL4 running fms2. The .FLVs created by FMS play well (include audio as well as video), however, when they are converted to 3gp using ffmpeg, they retain the video but loose the audio.
Any one??? Please??

Loss Of Focus
Hi
Sorry to sound like a div head - but I have a .swf background and I use javascript to open a straight bowser window. This is fine, but when I click the mouse on the .swf (now the background) the browser window looses focus. Is there anyway of keeping the browser window in focus, while being able to interact with .swf file behind?

Here is the code I presently use

button_mc.onPress = function(){
getURL ("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('','newWin','wi dth=800,height=700,left=200,top=100,toolbar=Yes,lo cation=Yes,scrollbars=Yes,status=Yes,resizable=Yes ,fullscreen=No'); NewWindow.focus(); void(0);");
}

Thanks in advance
R

Totally At A Loss.
Been trying to figure out how I can make this little jetplane thingy I made not pass the sides of the screen...

This is my code on the jet.

Code:
onClipEvent(load){
speed = 20;
xb = 20;
yb = 20;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
xb += speed;
}else if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
xb -= speed;
}
if(Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){
yb += speed;
}else if(Key.isDown(Key.UP)){
yb -= speed;
}
this._x = _x + (xb - _x) / speed;
this._y = _y + (yb - _y) / speed;
}
Now I need to get my borders to stop the jet from moving. The borders are simple lines (line tool, 1px each) along the sides of the stage. Each are called (in instance name, they're each movieclips) bordertop_mc, borderbottom_mc, borderleft_mc, and borderright_mc.

Now, I cant figure out a way that will make the ship stop in its tracks without it going haywire... I understand how hittest works, but I just dont know how to try and make the jet_mc movieclip stop moving completely at collision with a border, and still be able to have it go back in another direction when I press the opposite (say its at borderleft_mc, hit the right key and it'll go right, without it staying stuck on the borderleft_mc)

byeah... I don't know.

Performance Loss
Hi,
I have a strange performance problem, the site I have done performs fast on my PC but when it´s uploaded it performs awfully (like a 60% performance loss). The site it´s uploaded on a free server of tripod.
If I have two browsers one with the local main page opened and one with the web main page opened at the same time, the local file performs great but the web don´t.
Could the banners that they add to the site and the code that they use to display the banners be the cause of that performance lost?

maybe this thread is not very related with AS but I didn´t know were to put it, and since my site uses AS to do almost anything I put it here.

the site url address is:
http://polacofede.tripod.com

thanks,
Polaco

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

Loss Of Fluidity On Release
I am trying to understand the scripting needed for movie commands. I have used buttons before (i.e. "on (release), "on (rollOver)") but what I want to do is know how it works with movie events. Here are my questions:

1) If on rollover I want the movie to play from frame 2 to frame 20 and stop what would I write for the scripting?
2) Same button, but what would I use for the rollout feature? (I have 21-40 as the same as 1-20 but reversed)
3) Also, how would you write out the scripting if I wanted the same animation as the rollout for the release of the button, without initiating the rollout animation again after I moved my mouse off of the movie?

Is it better to just use a button hit area for what I want? Or do the "onClipEvent" coding?

Thanks a lot
ZogDog

At A Loss, Could You Give Me An Idea?
thank you. i have a site that i am developing http://www.starband.com/sales, username moon, password landing. under the top tool bar, supporting documents, module 5...if you select any of the links to the right (using ie6) they replace my entire browser window with a blank page. i am using colin moocks getURL javascript pop up script. i have used it on other sites with perfect success. do any flash gurus or heavyweights have any idea why this is happening? i would really appreciate any insight.

Possible Loss Of Quality

if i create a movie that is 100 pixels by 75 pixels, and i import a .jpg as a graphic... when i view this movie full screen, will the picture suffer from poor quality, or does the fact that flash uses vector graphics help maintain the picture quality?