Plasma Screen Presentation
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- CX
I got a high paying presentation project for our team by opening my big mouth at work.
Anyway I think Ill do it in Flash/Swift 3d. The catch is they want it to work on a 40 inch (probably 16-1) Plasma screen for display at trade shows. Here are the questions:
1) Should I just have Flash stretch to fit (which will probably look like crap with bitmaps)?
2) What size of Flash movie should I work at?
3) Also they wanted it on a CD-ROM (it may have to be a DVD). Should I treat this like a broadcast project instead of the regular CD presentation?
Please help if you have any idea.
Thanks.
- Nirvous0
16 x 9 letterbox
CD is good.
After effects would be better, but Flash will do.
- CX0
At first they mentioned Director but our team doesnt have it and it doesnt sound to complicated for aFlash.
Sorry can you please elaborate a little on the letterbox thing?
BTW I was at you site today. Nice site man.
Anyone else?
- Nirvous0
Your television is a 4:3 ratio. Most of the plasma screens support 16:9 ratios so you can get the cinematic feel on that nice wide television.
Thanks for the nice comment.
- _b_0
Unless you need some kind of interactive logic using actionscript/lingo do it as video.
An aftereffects piece rendered as video will be able to be far richer visually than Flash - if you make a really intensive Flash piece it will always struggle to play back at full screen. Ya know?
- mvl0
Hey Cx,
I did a piece like this about 2 years ago for a trade show presentation. It was projected on a 10 ft. screen. Basically, I was in a crunch for time, so I grabbed a stock video cd off of (then) eyewire's website and mixed the different video clips together and added animation text effects with After effects. I essentially played it as a quicktime video which worked. we played from a computer and you can make quicktime play fullscreen too. hope that helps.
- err0
If you like do it in flash and turn it into video via aftereffects.
I have a bitch of a time doing the interlacing thing, Heres my research for converting flash to video. Read up!
- err0
Sorry sorry sorry
I didn't mean to put those AEP project files in there.
They are not mine BTW thhey cam with one of thos tutorials
- CX0
Thanks. I dont know After Effects at the moment unfortunately. I wish I did. If anyone would do this in Flash would you work at regular size and stretch it to fit? The bitmaps would probably look like crap on the screen, but Im not sure.
- CX0
So if this was done in flash what size would you start at? As in whateverXwhatever pixels.
Anyone else have any answers or tips?