flash in posts - is it possible ?

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Hellmare

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Excuse me for the lame question, but how can I import FLASH (swf file) in my post? It will be good if you add button specially for flash - it's smaller and will replace GIFs which are toooooooo big :< thanks in advance
 
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To the best of my knowledge you can't.

UBB doesn't support swf.

As far as it being better than animated gifs...probably not, only because most people would just use sequenced bitmaps anyways making it just as big if not bigger than a gif.

Flash is usually only smaller for vector artwork, it's not too good at handling bytemaps.

Also you'd get everyone adding audio or something making it 100x larger than it should be and making it fairly annoying with 15 different sigs all playing at once.
 
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actually Flash works fine with Bitmaps. You can make the Flash movie and export it as an animated GIF or a QT movie althought that would negate your purpose.
 
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Using the exact same sequence of bitmaps, both 400x200:

<a href="http://neogeo.myeva.net/mprize2.swf" target="_blank">Flash</a> 59.6kb

<a href="http://neogeo.myeva.net/mysteryprize.gif" target="_blank">Animated Gif</a> 30.3kb.

The Flash one may fill your screen totally, the movie is still 400x200 though.

Flash should usually be used with vector art whenever possible. Shockwave is more the bit/bytemap app.

Although that paradigm does seem to be shifting as Shockwave is losing namebrand popularity to Flash, Director feels like it's becoming less and less a web product. Though the new 3D functions are nothing less than awesome. I thought T3D was the shit when it came out. The Havok engine makes my old portfolio look like trash!! ha ha ha.
 
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Oh, also, the flash movie is 6 frames so is the animated gif. And the Flash is set with no sound and the lowest possible compression level...which is exactly the same as the highest compression level in this example. Both 59.6kb.
 
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Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>To the best of my knowledge you can't.

UBB doesn't support swf.</strong><hr></blockquote>

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thanks I just asked - i know differences between swf anf gif but flash i meant that i can use 10 or 100 times one bitmap but in gif this will be different images hanzo1.swf with sounds is 30k but animated gif is 50k then ^_^ what can we talk ofcourse you can choose your method - to be gif or swf depending of size in thah case gif is bigger

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uaaaa :< how can i delete THIS post ?

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Briggs

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Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>Using the exact same sequence of bitmaps, both 400x200:

<a href="http://neogeo.myeva.net/mprize2.swf" target="_blank">Flash</a> 59.6kb

<a href="http://neogeo.myeva.net/mysteryprize.gif" target="_blank">Animated Gif</a> 30.3kb.

The Flash one may fill your screen totally, the movie is still 400x200 though.

Flash should usually be used with vector art whenever possible. Shockwave is more the bit/bytemap app.

Although that paradigm does seem to be shifting as Shockwave is losing namebrand popularity to Flash, Director feels like it's becoming less and less a web product. Though the new 3D functions are nothing less than awesome. I thought T3D was the shit when it came out. The Havok engine makes my old portfolio look like trash!! ha ha ha </strong><hr></blockquote>

Point taken.

I would rephrase that Flash is completely compatible with bitmap images, and gives you some control that you would not have otherwise - masks, etc. but an animated GIF is more efficient. If your final output is to be an animated GIF, Flash still may be your choice for the authoring tool and the GIF be your output. I guess it's the difference between Flash the tool and Flash the file type.

Heh, I said "Flash the tool"

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