Help for a flash newbie?
Hi all - I have only just begun learning Flash (took a few days of training in the fall but am otherwise learning through trial and error) so this may be a stupid question... but how can I control the display quality of the photos I'm using in a slideshow? They're being used in a webpage banner, and my client would like for the photos to have that popular pan/zoom effect, and while the pan effects are just fine, all of the zoom effects make the photos look distorted and pixellated as they're moving... almost wavy. I assume its because I'm using Flash to resize the pixel dimensions of the image in each keyframe and then letting the program fill in the blanks with a tween, but I don't know how else to get the effect I'm looking for.
I've seen a few tutorials that look pretty clean but involve a much faster, more dramatic zoom than the one I'm using.... is that the only way to "hide" the distortion of the images, or can is there something else I can do to make the motion subtle but still clean? Are the photos maybe just not high enough quality? (they're at 72dpi and are sized slightly larger than the viewable area of the movie, and the overal increase or decrease of the image is probably only around 10%) I've tried "Breaking Apart" the files and it didn't seem to make a difference, but are they maybe the wrong file format? (they're jpegs right now).
I hope this is making sense.... I don't really know how else to explain it. If it helps, the banner itself is here. (And yes, I know it needs some work overall, I'm just trying to focus on one problem at a time.)
EDIT: Well, after spending about 3 hours researching my problem online, I've discovered the problem (and unbelievably, its not me) - Flash 8 was aparently programmed without smoothing enabled for imported bitmaps, so any animated zoom or rotation is going to appear jaggy. They claimed there would be a fix with the release of the Flash Player 9, but from what I gather it still exists (and even if it didn't, my version of Flash 8 isn't capable of publishing for Player 9 - I wonder if there was a program update I missed?)
Anyway, just in case anyone else runs up against this problem, I thought I'd let y'all know. More info (including an ActionScript workaround which is WAY over my head) here for anyone who's interested.
I've seen a few tutorials that look pretty clean but involve a much faster, more dramatic zoom than the one I'm using.... is that the only way to "hide" the distortion of the images, or can is there something else I can do to make the motion subtle but still clean? Are the photos maybe just not high enough quality? (they're at 72dpi and are sized slightly larger than the viewable area of the movie, and the overal increase or decrease of the image is probably only around 10%) I've tried "Breaking Apart" the files and it didn't seem to make a difference, but are they maybe the wrong file format? (they're jpegs right now).
I hope this is making sense.... I don't really know how else to explain it. If it helps, the banner itself is here. (And yes, I know it needs some work overall, I'm just trying to focus on one problem at a time.)
EDIT: Well, after spending about 3 hours researching my problem online, I've discovered the problem (and unbelievably, its not me) - Flash 8 was aparently programmed without smoothing enabled for imported bitmaps, so any animated zoom or rotation is going to appear jaggy. They claimed there would be a fix with the release of the Flash Player 9, but from what I gather it still exists (and even if it didn't, my version of Flash 8 isn't capable of publishing for Player 9 - I wonder if there was a program update I missed?)
Anyway, just in case anyone else runs up against this problem, I thought I'd let y'all know. More info (including an ActionScript workaround which is WAY over my head) here for anyone who's interested.
