Bret Williams
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It’s pretty much the same product as imageready. It’s easier because it has less functions than photoshop. But yeah, lots of people use fireworks. It’s much more web function than imageready. You can do some pretty nice dhtml pull down menus in there, as well as some advanced rollover and swap image functions.
The bigger question might be how long it will be around. Since Adobe and Macromedia have merged, one can only wonder which overlapping apps will disappear. I’d guess Fireworks will be lost, but some of the functions will be ported to PS/Imageready. On the other hand, Dreamweaver will remain and GoLive will go away. I can’t think of anything from GoLive to port to DW. 🙂
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Be it flash video or quicktime or whatever, if you try to create a video as a background, you’re looking at a background that would be megs, or tens of megabytes in size. And considering that most screens now are the resolution of HDTV or better, it’s going to be huge. And as far as I know (Curtis?) there’s no way to make a flash video, flash file, or quicktime file as a background. Maybe with layers or something overly complex?
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Well it’s faster. But you can’t export unrendered material. FCP will render it during export. However it will leave your timeline unrendered when it’s done. Just like print to tape. So yes, render the timeline or you’ll be wasting lots of time rerendering.
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That would be the correct QT format to export for use with your encoding software. The aspect ratio will look correct when played back with a non-square pixel compatible player, like your DVD player on your computer. QT will display it as square pixels, therefore appearing squished (or stretched depending on your point of view). FCP also displays non-square pixels at the correct ratio (actually it can display them as square or non-square).
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I don’t know. I don’t know flash. I don’t believe in doing sites in flash. Just elements. A menu bar here, a graphic there, etc. You’re talking backgrounds, which means the entire page has to be done in flash. The only flash I do is in LiveMotion, which is a discontinued product.
On creating in Motion, then flash, it would seem that once you know flash that would be quite a silly useless thing to do. And if you don’t know flash, it’s just as silly. Flash for the most part is a scaleable vector based program. Animations are made of vector illustrations that are animated by the underlying code. Things created in Motion are frames of pixels. So they’re very large files, but it doesn’t matter since they’re not going to be downloaded. So Motion files can have all sorts of fire, sparks, motion blur, etc. and be photo-realistic. Vector based illustrations are very small files and are meant for download. They tend to be more cartoonish and simple, but the limitations of flash has also created a whole new art style imho. I think it’s actually brought about better design in many ways. People are forced to get messages across with simple type animations and geometric shapes instead of heavy 3D animation, drop shadows and particles.
Flash is like animated illustrator files, while motion is like animated photoshop files. Any sites you know of that are doing something like what you’re thinking?
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If nothing else works, open the boris tool, switch the cable on the back of your mac, make your edit, and switch the monitor cable back.
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Basically, those tools aren’t used for making backgrounds. Perhaps you have an example of something you’ve seen? Your most likely option is flash, but that’s not really a background. In fact, flash is always the frontmost element. But if you wanted a background that’s always moving, you would make your whole page as a flash file. Pretty steep learning curve.
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The DSR-11 input is set via a switch on the front. There is no such VCR mode on the DSR-11.
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You are most likely using too low a bitrate on your mpeg encoding, or not a variable bit rate, etc. Moving content is harder to encode that stationary content. So when something is moving, the overall quality of the image is going to suffer if you have too low a bit rate.
Try posting your encoding specs, and you may want to ask the folks in the DVD SP forum too.
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Is he watching this on a DVD or his computer screen? Since you’re talking about QT, I assume he’s watching it on his computer screen. For this purpose you have created a stretched qt of 720×480. That is DV or DVD’s native resolutioin, which uitilizes non-square pixels. For a computer screen, which uses square pixels, the correct size would be 640×480.
I’m not sure about the black bars at the top and bottom, unless he’s trying to view it full screen, which would result in black bars at the top and bottom because the two aspect ratios don’t match. But in a simple qt viewer there shouldn’t be any black bars.