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 Posted by h on 12/29/05 16:44 
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message  
news:ubl7r1p3lih1tebf3ri6s9aodl8uojmra9@4ax.com... 
> Check this out: 
> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/cbmain4/ 
<snips> 
 
Uhh, I don't get it - I'm probably missing something here but: 
 
> Perfect liquid Flash interface (try resizing your browser, all the 
> content will auto resize/reposition, even the video). 
 
Isn't this just one of the standard Publish settings for Flash? No code  
involved, Flash will rescale a movie to fit your browser window on the fly  
anyway, won't it? 
 
> and has an alpha 
> transparent, looping video clip (constructed using Paint Shop Pro and 
> Adobe After Effects). 
 
Given that the logo/video stays locked in position against the background,  
wouldn't it be more efficient to render the logo against a chunk of  
background (rather than transparent) and lose the transparency completely?  
That way you do the compositing at your end to save the end-user's Flash  
player from having to do all that repetitive stuff. Might mean a marginally  
larger video clip I suppose, but the static background should compress down  
to next to nothing. 
 
Wonder what sort of performance-hit you take for adding alpha-transparency  
video effects, over say plain old vector masking or no masking. 
 
Genuinely curious, 
 
h
 
  
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