Animated Gif very poor quality

[lenny]

Hi,
I am using Swish to produce my movie and then exporting it to flash. I then
import it into Flash MX and save the movie as an Animated Gif but the
quality drops so much that it looks terrible, especially when I compare it
to the original flash.

Can I change any settings to try and up the image quality a bit when it is
exported as an Animated Gif?

I am exporting as a gif instead of leaving it as a flash movie only because
I want it to be a link and I can't seem to work out how to make the whole of
a flash movie a link.

Any thoughts on both these points would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Lenny

[Jeckyl]

Maybe try exporting from SWiSH as an AVI, and then using a (free) AVI->GIF
tool (I'm sure I've seen a few of these around). That may give you a better
result.
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All the best,
Jeckyl

[Brandon Bradley]

lenny wrote:

> I am exporting as a gif instead of leaving it as a flash movie only because
> I want it to be a link and I can't seem to work out how to make the whole of
> a flash movie a link.

You can make the entire flash animation clickable by placing a invisible
button (hit state only) over the entire stage and assigning it a getURL
behavior. That would retain all your quality and the swf format.
(Animated gifs are still limited to 256 colors)

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Brandon Bradley
Macromedia Certified Instructor
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