How do they do that? Video in flash

[rninja]

I have seen some flash sites use images or video in such a way that the images run like a video and are given a photoshop "duotone or tritone" effect.

I think it is an awesome effect and would like to know how to do that and how much work is involved.

Thanks in advance for any help! Rninja

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[oldnewbie]

You're probably talking about tracing bitmaps.

Look at this:

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/11387.html

Check the "Marilyn" model!

ldnewbie

 

[rninja]

How about something like this:

http://www.toniguy.com/

Is that the same kind of effect?
Thanks for the quick reply Oldnewbie! Rninja

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[rninja]

In the very begining there is a girl in a small video like window...

Sorry, forgot to mention it before. Rninja

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[rninja]

Oh, and an even better example of the effect:

http://www.terrorpilot.com/

Rninja

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[rninja]

Thanks for the URL oldnewbie. I didn't get to see the "merilyn" model, but I did read it.

I have one question. How do you atually make the video effect? I actually have to make a video sequence into gif frames or what?

Thanks again for the info. Rninja

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[wangbar]

To get the frames in in the first place the easiest thing to do is have your video as a QuickTime file. You can import this directly into Flash and then export it as a sequence of images: Flash splits the video up frame by frame and turns each one into a bitmap.

You can mess with these bitmaps in Photoshop or Fireworks to create the duotone effect (or just leave them as full colour like in the Toni&Guy site) then reimport them into Flash and use them like a keyframe animation. The file size can get really big really quickly though...