RE: Commercials (WAS)Re: FLASH: Impact of frame rate on file size?

[pete clark]

I work for a company that does video production for a variety of clients.

Usually we create self/product promotional videos or these clients. About a

month ago we had a guy who wanted some crazy text effects and Flash was

definitely the way to go.


It was VERY easy to use Flash. Just set your frame rate to 30 (in our case)

and set the background color to something you can get rid of, usually blue

or green, it depends on the text and your video. Set the dimensions to

something your format can handle (720x480 for DV in our case). Render the

animation you create in Flash as an AVI.


Then we dropped it into Premiere, but you could also use just about any

other high-end software package like Avid or Edit*. If you wanted to do

further effects you can also drop it into After Effect and do whatever. In

our case the animated text needed to be overlaid a video clip so I set the

transparency of the text animation to the background color I chose in Flash.


Then Print to Tape and your done.


It's true that you need a fast system to see the Flash animation at 30 FPS,

but the systems we use for video production need to be fast anyway to handle

video rendering. We use dual PentiumII 450, 198Mb RAM, and most importantly

AV Hard Drives. You could definitely get away with a slower system though

for smaller jobs.


Since then we've used Flash quite a few times in video projects. It's

perfect for broadcast quality effects that would normally be a pain to try

to create in After Effects.



pete clark

noram digital media : : a new media firm

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