How do you Convert Director Image Cast to Flash bitmaps

[TomGilleland]

I have a director external cast with about 1400 bitmap images. I sequence through a series of these cast members for animations. I need to scale these image as sprites in my project. If you scale a bit map sprite through lingo, the sprite sized will get fixed and maybe cause other problems. Macromedia suggest not to do this. Macromedia suggests converting the images to flash bitmaps so that they will scale correctly. Does anyone know a way to convert all of these as a batch or something?

Thanks,

Tom

http://www.beachware.com/

 

[kennethkawamoto]

First you have to export your cast members to JPEGs, unless you have them as separate files. To do this you can either do it manually (!), or use Xtra such as Direct Image Xtra <

http://www.directxtras.com/DImage_home.asp?UUID=1608219>

Then you convert them to SWFs. To automate you can use tools such as Swift-tools <

http://www.swift-tools.net/index.html?generator>

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk