[Athanie]

Why yes, it is a double-post. : ) The more responses, the better, right?

[Athanie]

The animations were not rendered with fields, I’ve been using Flash to create the animations from scratch, and am exporting (from flash) .png sequences, and unchecking the box that says “interlaced.” The project is rasterized when I export the .png sequences (I WISH Premiere was vector-based, wouldn’t that be a sight?)

I also wish that I used adobe after effects instead, it’s a real fun program (I used to do animations using AE rather than Flash) however using Flash eliminates a lot of extra steps since I’d have to create the graphics in photoshop, illustrator, etc. It’s too late to do the whole thing over in after effects.

I’m finally pleased with how the final .flv files have turned out. It’s a pain to export them twice rather than once (once from Premiere to quicktime, and then from quicktime through the encoder to .flv), but it’s worth the quality.

[Athanie]

My recipe:

1. What resolution?
I’ve tried a bunch of them, 640 x 480 px is the largest I’ve tried. Text was still not great.
2. What video bitrate?
Audio bitrate is 128 kbps. For video, max data rate is 700 kbps.
3. What Font?
I used Tahoma in flash.
4. What size font? 15
5. Is there motion to your text?
there is some animations, but not for the text.

I realized that I could export from Premiere Pro a large Mpeg 2 file, which I can put into the Flash 8 Video Encoder (this is a separate program from Flash) and convert to an .flv. The result is much cleaner than trying the above recipe (exporting an .flv from premiere pro) However it’s an extra step and kinda a pain. I’m still not %100 happy with the clarity of the video, please suggest things if you have a better idea or technique.

Thanks a bunch