oh, don't get me wrong.... It is a very cool looking site. And I could never do such myself, but I don't think it would be hard to do. But that is also the point, when one wants to show off their work, it's best to use the KISS method, "keep it simple stupid"
bigmac- 05-01-2008
Yeah, I like that site Chris, though no, it's not a very stunning technical achievement. And yes, the mirrored reflection effect has been extremely easy to do on the fly since Flash 8 when they introduced 8-bit alpha masking. You just take bitmap captures of your content area then place them into a mirrored movieclip with decreased alpha and masked with a bitmap gradient. They've become an extremely popular design element since Apple set the style trend, so they've become a typical visual effect in the Flash world. I've had to build several of them, most notably on the AOL elections maps that I built last fall.
Shofixti- 05-01-2008
Yeh I know there isnt anything terribly original in that site, but it does it all rather well I think, even the way the buttons kind of affect each other...
Shofixti, what difference did the tif format make? Did it render better in Flash or something?
Using TIF Over JPG made both a massive Size and Quality difference, as well as being able to include an alpha channel!
bigmac- 05-01-2008
I'm a little confused... what were you using as a TIF? Is that entire video saved with lossless compression? 13mb for that length of video is pretty steep.
Shofixti- 05-01-2008
I'm a little confused... what were you using as a TIF? Is that entire video saved with lossless compression? 13mb for that length of video is pretty steep.
Still, I was impressed I could get real footage that small at all! last attempt I made to do something like that was like 500 MB
bigmac- 05-01-2008
Have you looked at the Sorensen codecs or FLV publishing? A decent quality video of that length should be in the neighborhood of 1 to 2Mb, or maybe 3 for REALLY pretty quality. There's also an app called MediaScrubber which is an insanely powerful media compressor. It was the defacto standard 4 years ago while I was doing video in school. Of course, times might have changed a bit since then :) Either way, the codec algorithms just keep on getting better, giving better quality with increasingly less file size.
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