Let walk through Some of the important things for Flash broadcast. Almost 15 years ago, Flash animation were quietly moving from computer screen to Computer screens. Animation were exported from Flash to AVI or Quick timer move. But the process was painful because so many limitation on the way like limitation of Flash Frames and layers. Flash animator preparing breaking their project in to 20 – 30 section.
With the introduction of HD video in Flash Player 9.0.115 and the ability to create and play HD video using the H.264 codec and the .mp4 format Flash became untethered. The same video can be just as easily played in a browser as it can on a Sony Playstation or the HD screen.
In the Flash Player 10, Flash animators will be producing content, in Flash, that shows up, simultaneously, on 52-inch HD screens, computer monitors, gaming systems and SmartPhone screens. In this article I am only going to deal with preparing Flash animations for TV.
PNG sequences are the way to go when frame accuracy is critical. PNG sequance is better than Quick timer option. With this technique your Flash movie, for want of a better analogy, is treated as a Flip Book and each frame of your Flash movie is rendered out as a numbered PNG document.
We can see the png files saved with sequentially numbered. Open After Effects CS-4 and import. Navigated to the folder containing the PNG images and selected the first file in the sequence. After Effects recognizes this selection as being the first image of a PNG Sequence and selecting “Force alphabetical order” makes sure the images come into After Effects in order. The neat thing about this is when I click Open, the sequence arrives in the After Effects Project panel as a single document, not 75 individual images. From there a Video or Motion Graphics artist can further manipulate the files before outputting for broadcast.
TV displays less color than your computer monitor. Monitor can display all of the RGB colors from 0 to 255. When it comes to TV. Flash palette needs to be reduced to a range from 16 and 235. Black, [0,0,0], actually gets shifted to [16,16,16] meaning the colors between 0 and 16 are clipped. Same thing for white, [255,255,255]; it gets downshifted to [235,235,235]. The color that really tends to bleed is red, might want to reduce it from [255,0,0] to [200,16,16] and add the swatch to your color palette.
If creating custom colors is tedious you might want to head out to the web and pick up Warren Fuller’s FlashNTSC swatch palette.
Import Swatch Color
Installing it isn’t difficult. Open the Flash Swatches panel and, from the panel pop down menu select Replace colors. When the Import Swatch Color dialog box opens navigate to the folder where you saved the .clr file, select the file and click Open.
When the dialog box closes, the NTSC Swatches will appear in the Swatch panel.
