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Flash for Broadcast, Screening

I work mostly in Flash, for the web, but am wondering what is generally the best way to set up a Flash movie for eventual broadcast or screening? Would a 550 X 420 pixel movie hold up on a large screen (can the raw swf file be formatted as it is raster-based and can stretch), or should the 720 pixel broadcast be the standard for acceptable screening quality? Anyone that has submitted films to festivals in the past know or have a resource for this?

I work mostly in Flash, for the web, but am wondering what is generally the best way to set up a Flash movie for eventual broadcast or screening? Would a 550 X 420 pixel movie hold up on a large screen (can the raw swf file be formatted as it is raster-based and can stretch), or should the 720 pixel broadcast be the standard for acceptable screening quality? Anyone that has submitted films to festivals in the past know or have a resource for this?

i would suggest you work with the standard HD resolutions as broadcast (at least in the US) is going that way.

For screenings its touch and go depending on their set up. you would probably have to convert to DVD and they would screen on regular projectors.

if you have the money and are expecting people to select your work for screening on 35mm you can get the final sequence scanned at 2k or 4k from someone that does reverse telecine or DI.

550 would most likely not hold up when you blow it up.

Cool, thanks, skinnylizard. Frustrating that once you learn how to animate, you need to learn so much more or it will never be seen.

I am formatting my new movie for festivals and I figured that most of them will not show DVDs, only Beta tapes or film. So, if you're not going for film, you can stick to lower res. Personally, I'm working with 720p format, because it costs less in render time than 1080p. But if you plan to print to film, you can think 2k. Just one tip: do a lot of render tests, because Flash is knows for having issues on that sometimes. I have a movie done on Flash that I could never convert to a video file properly. If all you want is to draw on vectors, you can try Toon Boom. It's working great for me.

For film conversions or anything that is not to play in swf i would highly recommend that you work in 1080i.

export a movie sequence in .TGA and then take that into something like Vegas (Free with most vid cameras) add your sound to the timeline and then run a render in required file size.

you can also offer the .TGA sequence to a DI team and they can scan it to 2 or 4 k for transfer to 35mm.

For film conversions or anything that is not to play in swf i would highly recommend that you work in 1080i.

Why do you recommend interlace over progressive?