Making Flash Animation for Cinema/Theatres

im just wrapping up a film for a client. its a cinematic
short and will be transfered on to film ( i dont know much about
this) however the resolution they asked us to work in was 2048 x
1536 (which i think is a carry forward from the usual) 720 x 540
now my question is - is this the right way of going about
this? i know Phil Nibbelink who did Romeo and Juliet and went
straight from Flash to Film worked in 2048 x 1234.
anyone have any ideas about this?

It's all about ratio.
The shape of nearly all pre-1950s movies were 4:3
The shape of many Disney animation movies and European
movies: 1.66:1
Most American movies today: 16:9
Epic movies: 2.35:1 (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars)
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> im just wrapping up a film for a client. its a cinematic
short and will be
> transfered on to film ( i dont know much about this)
however the
> resolution
> they asked us to work in was 2048 x 1536 (which i think
is a carry forward
> from
> the usual) 720 x 540
>
> now my question is - is this the right way of going
about this? i know
> Phil
> Nibbelink who did Romeo and Juliet and went straight
from Flash to Film
> worked
> in 2048 x 1234.
>
> anyone have any ideas about this?
>
>

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FieldManWoodStock wrote:
> Hi, my company is a web animation firm. One of my client
request us to produce
> a Flash animation for TV commercial use.
> Any concern on the format as well as film dimension?
> Should I convert the swf into DVD/ mpeg format or
something?
>
> Sorry that I am a rookie on TV commercial production.
Thanks for your reply
> in advance.
>

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Making a flash animation into link

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Thanks Urami
Nice and simple, thanks very much
Gaz
On 5/9/07 12:29 am, in article
fbkpp1$juf$[email protected], "urami_"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Garry Bradley wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Could someone tell me how to make a animation placed
into Dreamweaver
>> clickable? I just need a simple link to another page
but I can¹t find where
>> to link anything in. Is it a parameter that I need
to set up?
>
> You need to make that within flash movie.
> You could use big invisible button on top of your entire
content
> or simple apply onMouseDown event to the timeline which
will make
> the whole stage clickable, follow by getURL action.
>

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