Flash Site Design - creating a wide movie clip (2700 pixels wide)

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creating a wide movie clip (2700 pixels wide)

macron

2005-03-25, 6:30 pm

hi all, i'm trying to make a wide movie clip with images and text that slides
back and forth beneath a mask layer. the sliding movie clip is 2700 pixels
wide, but the movie clip workspace is a lot smaller than that. is there a way
to enlarge the movie clip workspace so that i can work on the wide movie clip
more easily? alternatively someone suggested i shrink the movie clip down to
25 percent and dynamically scale it up at runtime, but wouldn't that distort
the images and text it contains? without a paddle, macron

tralfaz

2005-03-25, 6:30 pm

"macron" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hi all, i'm trying to make a wide movie clip with images and text
> that slides
> back and forth beneath a mask layer. the sliding movie clip is 2700
> pixels
> wide, but the movie clip workspace is a lot smaller than that. is
> there a way
> to enlarge the movie clip workspace so that i can work on the wide
> movie clip
> more easily? alternatively someone suggested i shrink the movie
> clip down to
> 25 percent and dynamically scale it up at runtime, but wouldn't that
> distort
> the images and text it contains? without a paddle, macron

If the image in the library is full size, when you scale down in Flash
it doesn't alter the data, it just displays less of it. When it gets
scaled back up to it's normal size it will be just as it was before.
Just make sure not to use any odd scaling number.. keep it to 100% 50%
25% to make it look the best. Also, keep the positioning on exact
pixel numbers like 100.0 and not 100.2 etc.

Because it is so large.. 2700 pixels, the file size must be pretty
high. In that situation I think I would make a separate swf file of
2700 pixels wide to hold that image and load it in dynamically with
loadMovieNum and use a preloader to show loading progress.
Then you can work on the larger image at 100% scale in the external
file.
tralfaz

macron

2005-03-25, 11:17 pm

:beer; hey tralfaz many thanks for your suggestioni solved my problem by
concatenating the images into a single very long skinny jpg and aligned it with
the background of the movie clip. i was able to keep the image file size
reasonably low by finding a happy jpg quality, so the final file is only around
347k, which is dealable. much obliged, macron