Fetal Heart Monitor Strip

[David Bogie]

> Currently I am animating a heart monitor strip by placing the strips (a total of 24 for 8 min each) butting them up against each other and exporting as a .mov from FCP. I will then import the .mov into Flash. < Why Flash if your need is for quality? You haven't explained how you're animating them, where they came from, or how you are presenting them (except in Flash). What size is the playback movie? > My question is how to keep the highest quality possible when I export the .mov. The strips are an average of 1800 x 1200.< That's not a particularly large graphic but what format is your timeline? Conventional DV? HD? How do you make a 1800 pixel-wide graphic last for 8 minutes? > I wanted to keep them large for quality sake, of course the files are huge and start to bog down my cpu. If anyone has worked on a similar project and can modify my workflow or has suggestions on the proper settings to export, that would be great. I have to have it to the client by tomorrow. < Yes, use After Effects. But you can't have it to them tomorrow. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Kenwest]

Thanks for the response. Being that I am more comfortable with FCP, I was trying to stick with what I knew.
I ended up grouping the strips together in Flash. You’re right, read the freakin’ Flash manual which I will be doing a lot of today.

Thanks again,

Ken