pic gets ugly

[jkemi]

Hi ya all!

Im making this flash site in wich we showcase a lot of pictures, and then theres a zoom button wich opens a zoomed jpg inside the flash movie ...

its in size 550 x 550 pixels (100 dpi)

the picture looks good in Photoshop
but when i import it trough a turbine_image
and open the movie, it looks kinda ugly?

the file size is too smal too ? (an avarge zoome picture is about 45 k) the flash that contains it is about 10 k?

i have the jpeg quality when saving to generator template at a 100 %

but somewhere along the line theres a real quality loss ? where ?

/ j

[jdiogo]

Flash Turbine will not recompress the image at serve-time, the included image is exactly the same as the original JPEG file. The Flash template does not include the image, which is only integrated at serve-time when the movie is generated.

[jkemi]

I did an experiment ...

the jpg from photoshop is 46 k big

the trough turbine generated swf is 10 k (!?!)
(first to a generator template, and then trough
asp to a file)

and doing exaktly the same page and savin directly to .swf
gives me a file size of 47 k ?

why ?

[jdiogo]

That's happening because the JPEG image is not being included on the .swt file, it will only be included on the generated Flash when the movie is served by the web server.

[jkemi]

yeah .,. got it that far .,

i dont generate the movies real time
instead i use the write to file comand so that
it makes the file wich i then load on the server ...

but can i pervent it from hapening ?


[Edited by jkemi on 03-28-2002 at 06:12 AM]

[jdiogo]

Weird situation, since you should not be getting any JPEG recompression from Turbine - do you have the involved JPEG/.swf available online, that we can check? Alternatively please send it to support@blue-pac.com.