Flash :: Quality Loss When Importing

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?

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/

Loss Of Sound When Importing Quicktime
I use flash mx 2004, and i have quicktime 6.5 installed. when i import a quicktime movie it works all fine, except i get no sound.

does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Importing Without Losing Quality...
Is there a way to import jpegs and avi files so you don't lose so much as much quality? All my export settings are at their highest, but when I import high quality jpegs and avi's, they come in at such a low quality it doesn't matter how I export them. Any suggestions on how I can get optimum image quality? Thanks.

Importing .png Image And Keep Quality
How come when I import a .png or a .gif into flash it makes the image unclear to what it would look like in a regular HTML page. This has been bursting my bubble for a while now so I finally decided to ask! Thank you in advance for the help!

Importing Images With Best Quality
Whats the best way to import an image(which file extension) in order to keep form loss of quality, I cant seem to import this one image right without it becoming fuzzy. Its a grid that fades out so I think that it is absolutley needed to use photoshop.

Importing Text - Quality Issues
I am importing text from a text doc into Flash and for some reason the quality is very poor. Here is the file. Left side is imported and right side is written inside Flash. There has to be a setting or something doens't there?

Help Me Out With Importing Quality Image File
Hi Flashkit dudes....
I'm having a terrible problem with importing the quality image file into flash. I've designed a nice background pic in photoshop using different techniques and looks really nice. And going to File>Save for web, I saved that as ".PNG-24" since I wanted that background with transparent. But when I get imported that image into Flash, the images gets just too terrible to look at. Everything turns out to be really disturbing.........Please suggest me what should be done for better output. Any sort of help would be highly appreciated.Thanx in advance.

Sayamish

Poor Image Quality When Importing SWF
I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added more images the SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and used a main page to import the smaller SWF files into a target. However, I found that all my clean crisp images become dull when imported but still look sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all the JPEG settings and push them up but still with no luck. Does anybody have any insight to why this is happening?

Importing Video-- Poor Quality
i shot this 12 second presentation today with a guy saying some stuff related to a product, edited it in final cut express, and exported it with quicktime conversion. the file is huge in this mode, and when i try to import it as embedded, it plays back at a crawl speed--unusable. the quality of a single image while stopped is fine.

when i export the movie out of final cut as a quicktime movie_.mov) the file is small, and the mpg plays fine and at a decent quality on its on withing the quicktime movie player, but when i import it the quality is terrible in flash.

i have tried almost every combination: embedding, linking. no luck.

any suggestions would be great.

thanks!

Losing Photo Quality When Importing To Flash
I have noticed that everytime I import a .png or .tif into Flash, it loses quality. The same file is rather large (png = 500kb, tiff 1.9mb), but I would rather have quality over compression. I already went into properties and selected lossess png but that doesn't seem to help. Does anyone know how to reduce Flashes compression?

[F8] Runtime Image Importing -- Quality Issues
ive recently been experincing quality issues while importing images at runtime.
im writing an invoicing program in which you type in a persons contact details and the products which they are buying. It then puts this info into a database, and creates an invoice image on the server (using php image editing functions), again using the inputted details.
my issue arises when i try to import this image back into flash, it becomes pixalated and unreadible.
i have searched the forums and discovered plenty of posts about pixalated images, however they all seem to only have solutions for images imported into the library before runtime. (for example i have tried to turn jpeg quality up in the publish settings, to no avail. ive also tried many formats)

the images are fine when i look at them directly on the server in any format i try putting them in, its just when flash retrieves them that i get issues.

to import the image i use the following basic code:

Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("invoice", this.getNextHighestDepth());
invoice.loadMovie(image_url,invoice.getNextHighestDepth());
//image_url is the image URL returned from the php script.
any ideas?

cheers
Ben

Help With Preserving Image Quality When Importing To Flash
I am very new with designing, and I would like some help with preserving image quality...i designed the layout in photoshop and all the images are very clear, but when i save them as png's and import them to flash, i lose quality of the image. Is there another way to import directly to flash...??
Also i would like to create a mask with very fine horizontal lines...and have images passing behind them, like a horizontal pattern over all the images. I have created it in photoshop again using patterns and transparencies, but i do not know how to import it into flash. I know PNG and GIFs support transparencies, but in flash the lines are not recognised...!

Can someone help me pls!

Image Quality Deteriorates When Importing Jpegs?
I'm saving them as high as possible. They look good when editing, it's as soon as I play the movie the edges get jagged and I lose detail. What am I missing here?

Importing Quicktime Into Flash> How To Make High Quality...
Well here is the thing. I want to import flash and every time the quality looks really crappy. Does anyone know how to improve the quality of the quicktime videos when they are embeded into flash? Thanks

Mike

Low Quality Images When Importing Into Flash ( Please Reply Within 2 Days )
When i import an image into Flash, I'm starting to get low quality images. It was not like this before. What should i do?

Importing "quality" Video?
Hi!
I imported some video (.avi format) into flash. I used the auto settings for the DSL/Cable 786kbps but the clarity is just terrible. Everytime there is ANY movement at all it gets REALLY bad. Is there anything else I can do without increasing the file size exponenially?

Thanks in advance!

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

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

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