FLY in effect on: http://xerogravity.net/v3/ ?

[blaatorx]

how did they fly in the worldmap background on http://xerogravity.net/v3/

hope to hear somebody about it

thnx

[pellepiano]

Seems to be a bitmap sequence ( or video ) , probably made in Adobe After Effects ( the color changes may have been done in Flash though ). There is also a After Effects like effect on the text on the splash screen.

[blaatorx]

allright does somebody have an idea how they fix this in AFTER effects ?

[Firefuze]

Hey,

Pellepiano is right, i used after effects for the sequence in the beginning and for the background. For the background i used a optics compensation filter, with a glow for the color change. And i exported it as a jpg sequence.

[blaatorx]

wow great, and how did you fix the loading bar flying away ?

[Firefuze]

It's a ripple filter, with some gaussian blur.

[chearn]

Can I ask you why you exported as a jpg sequence and not an SWF or QT? I'm trying to work with AE and Flash, but the file sizes are HUGE!

Thanks a bunch

[pellepiano]

The advantage of image sequences is that is compatible with older versions of Flash. Playing video in Flash is relatively new, it came with MX ( Flash can not play QT or any other format but its own though, so a QT movie has to be converted to swf first ).

[chearn]

Thanks pellepiano -

Could you (or anyone here) point me in the direction of some good AE with Flash resources. I have strong AE experience, but integrating with Flash is tough (mainly figuring out what I can do that will give a decent file size). My last 1.5 second clip started at 3mb!

Thanks for the time.

LB

[pellepiano]

Flash Kit is the biggest resource for Tutorials and example movies.

A search on Google will give you plenty of forums and tutorials for After Effects. And the combination with Flash...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...fects+%2Bflash

The framerate is of course important. Perhaps you can use less bitmaps and still get the right motion on your graphics.

[chearn]

Thanks man - I'll check it out.