FLASH: From Flash to Video

[Curtis Bay]

We have a clients who would like to repurpose an 800x600 Flash presentation

in development right now for broadcast. They require a video tape in Betacam

format (NTSC).


There was a discussion on the list about a year ago regarding this, and I

clipped some information then that I still have, but I have a couple of

questions regarding audio/animation sync.


>From what I understood from that thread, you need to do several things:


1) avoid saturated colors to stay within NTSC or PAL-safe palettes

2) resize the flash movie before export to compensate for the square-pixel

to rectangular-pixel adjustment on television monitors

3) keep text and action away from the edge of the screen--10 and 20%

respectively--(why? I don't know)

4) output a BMP or PICT sequence

5) import sequence into video editor such as Premiere

6) lay down the audio track

7) output to videotape, compensating for the 30 fps to 29.97 fps issue


My question is this: How do you keep your animation and audio in sync?

Obviously it is impossible to preview complex Flash animations at 30 fps on

the computer. What would happen if I took a 15 fps BMP sequence and

stretched it so on output it was 30 fps? What I want to avoid is rendering,

importing seeing the audio is off, guessing at the changes in Flash,

re-rendering, re-importing etc etc...


Not my area of expertise, as you may notice :>)


regards,

Curtis 


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