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  • Widescreen Flash movie dimensions

    Posted by David Donnenfield on October 10, 2007 at 4:06 am

    I have an exported FCP movie that is widescreen (1240×720) and I’m trying to compress a Flash movie out of it. I can put this through compressor at 320×180 and preserve the widescreen, but this is smaller than I want. When I try to input a multiple of these dimensions to make the movie 50% larger at 480×270, the On2 Flash video plug-in in Compressor doesn’t like it. I get zilch . . . won’t compress. Does anyone know if I can pick my own dimensions for outputting flash movies, or are there only certain dimensions setting it will accept? If so, what are the right flavors?
    Thanks,
    DAvid

    David Donnenfield replied 18 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    October 10, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    I use On2 Flix Pro, their standalone Flash encoder, which does allow creation of any size Flash video. So, its not a Flash thing per se, probably more likely a limitation caused by the integration with Compressor. Have you tried using it from inside QT Conversion or QT pro?

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  • David Donnenfield

    October 10, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    No, haven’t tried it from inside those two QT products. I’ll give QT Pro a try. Sure wish I had known this limitation of Flix Exporter before purchasing it. Makes it kind of a silly product.

  • Mike Eberly

    October 10, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    David,
    I work with QT source files that are 1280×720 – outputting to 640×360 using Flix On2 gives good results.

  • David Donnenfield

    October 10, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    Right, but 640×320 is larger than I want. Shooting for 480×270 or even a little smaller. And, I’m specifically referring to On2’s Flix Exporter 8, which I’m using inside of Compressor. Maybe you’re using the Flix Pro stand-alone product.
    DD

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