i have also been thinking about Scan converters. I wonder if there are any brands out there that can convert in a good quality. If anyone knows of a brand of scan converters, or even video output cards that would work, please post them lonebannana

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i actually got it off of a really good book i bought: "Flash 5 Cartooning". it is on their cd. I will see about making a copy(i don't think it would be a problem, since it is just a general color pallet). but i dont know if it is a flash-specific color pallet (never messing with these things before) it is called "Video Safe.clr". dont know if that is helpful. Mainly, it says to avoid saturated colors (red=RGB 255,255,255 ) also it suggests not using pure black or white, but to use: black=RGB 16,16,16 white=RGB 235,235,235 if you have a problem with me sending the pallet, or if the pallet is useless to you, those values may help. i dont know if this thing shows my email acct, either, so it is lonebannana@hotmail.com. i have some flash animations already made. when i post them to my site, i will tell everyone. Lonebannana

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Thanks for the reply. I am using a PC (sadly), and I have tried both 15 and 24 frames per second. Both look fine, actually, since the animation is not too complicated--yet. I had a problem with flash, actually. I am using flash to make the cartoons, and then just playing them full screen to a vcr i have. Like you said, the video is a little washed out. I did try making the flash into a quicktime and importing it to Premire, but i had problems with the sound, which doesnt really import to an audio track to QT. Also, playing flash full screen is so sharp! i tried a couple of test renders with premire and the quality just cannot compare! but it does look washed out. maybe tweaking some settings on qt....? I also found a color scheme with TV safe colors...which i havent used, yet....(???) but the next cartoon will use them. I need around 80 minutes of video footage in order to secure a time slot , and so far i have around 3 minutes done! So if you (or anyone else) has stuff that you wouldnt mind a whole city watching (theoretically) please, give me a email at lonebannana@hotmail.com . Band videos would be sweet, too, silver. thanks again for the post

I have done a basic spinning model of a baby from poser which i made into a 3ds model. I really want to use this as the basis of my animation, but i am curious to see how others have used it. by the way Vecta 3d can handle more polygons thatn swift 3d. And it IS much cheaper, and has a gradient shader, which i havent been able to figure out. thanks

have you heard of vecta3d? i have just got a copy myself and am exited to try it out with poser. It works with .3ds files only, but poser exports animation as sucessive .3ds files, so it works great (at least i think) check out the web site at www.vecta3d.com it is only 99 dollars. also, see what i have done at http://members.xoom.com/lonebannana/flash/boba.htm and http://members.xoom.com/lonebannana/flash/baby.htm

rather good, rather good. I am also trying some work with poser and flash. I would like to know how you did that, if you don't mind. looks like a convert bitmap, is it?