Flash Files to Video?? why so slow?

[Thwiipp]

Hi im going to author a DVD and am going to put my animated logo in the beginning of the video. I created a little animation of it n flash and tried to output it to AVI, put the video was all choppy and slow, i tried SWF2Video but that gave me the same result , i also tried outputting to quicktime which was a little better (not as choppy but still slow) can anyone help me as i need to get this done soon and would appreciate it. Thanks.

[furball6969]

what is the content of the rest of the DVD? The reason I ask is because if it is something that you've captured through, say, a ATI AIW Radeon, then you could set up your TV output and route the PC TV output back in to the capture input and capture while you are playing the flash file.

I've done this with some RM files I wanted to transfer to VCD. Works great.

[Thwiipp]

I hought of doing that, but i cant output like that i have a Geforce 3, not an AIW, the rest of the video was captured through Firewire froma DV cam.

[Supremus]

I use Flash all the time to create menus for DVDs, and it works perfectly when exporting to AVI using the HuffyUV codec. I then convert to MPEG with TMPGenc.

I am sure I am stating the obvious here, but just in case, you have to set the correct frame rate in Flash, instead of using the default 12fps, or whatever, as this would definitely cause the animation to be jerky. Also, Flash doesn't allow uneven frame rates such as 23.976 or 29.97, so you have to set it to either 24 or 30 and then change it afterwards in VirtualDub, or something like that.

[BJ_M]

make it at 30fps .. encode it at 29.97

[Thwiipp]

Yeah i had already done that since i know that DVD's are at 29.97 fps, but when i output to AVI its slow and choppy so whats wrong here?

[Supremus]

You mentioned that things improved when you used Quicktime, right. I am just wondering if it's because your machine can't play it back quickly enough as AVI or QT.

Have you tried doing he full conversion to MPEG and seeing if things improve here? If the menu is full 720x480 res, most PCs would be a bit unhappy about playing it back at full speed as AVI or QT, but compared to an uncompressed AVI, QT should do a slightly better job, but probably still not enough. If you haven't tried this already, try and do the full conversion to MPEG and play the resulting file in WinDVD, PowerDVD, or something like that. Hopefully it will be OK.

I take it that the file definitely has the right frame rate if you load it into VirtualDub and check? If it does, I can't see that it should be Flash's fault.

[Thwiipp]

Ok thanks for all the replys i got it working, strange though, Im using Flash MX, but what i had work on was set to flash 5 compatibility, i changed it to flash 6 and tried it again, when i did it it was still choppy, but then i outputed again with no sound and ite was fine, i brought it in to my editing software so i can add the sound and convert to Mpeg2 but it didnt read it , so i reencoded the AVI in TMPGEnc, and then i editing prog recognized it and i loadined in the music and it plays great!!!! Thanks again for all the reply's