.swf to .avi

[Anable]

FlashMX comes with an export movie option to turn your swf file into an avi file. When ever I use this option though, I lose a ton of color information. Almost as if it were running in 16 color mode. Is this just a limiation of the exporter built into Flash or is there a setting I need to tweak?

 

[Anable]

A few updates and additional information:

On the video format I've tried putting it all the way up to 32/w alpha and I still get a bleached look. Also, the main reason I wanted the .avi format was because I thought it was less cpu intensive but when I run my film on an older machine (PII 400), I still get slowdown in the exact same spots as when it was an swf file.

 

[Naft]

from what ive worked with avi's on flash, even when im using purely grayscale, and export as full quality .avi i get crappy lines and mismatched colors. i think it is due to compatibility problems between the vector point drawing used by flash and the digital video information(video recordings of actual things etc, basically pixel based, but in video); so information is compromised when converting.

it is also possible that i am limiting quality in some way im not familiar with yet, but it seems to just be a universal problem.

tell you what i can do though, i have a friend who is a flash expert, ill ask him as soon as he gets online. which is now.

ok, he says that after you choose where to save and all, and choose the color depth, etc. it pops up a video(avi specific) compression chooser thingy, ranging from uncompressed(which takes up hundreds of mbs and is VERY processor intensive) to really crappy compressions. he suggests using DivX for watching only(if your flash doesnt have it download the codec or whatever at www.divx.com), and for importing into other projects uncompressed.

he said that good quality compression shouldnt effect the video or color quality at all.