Flash to DVD.... how and what format

[Develonet]

Im trying to get my flash file converted over to a looping video clip, on DVD
that will play on a wide screen TV. Hope some experts here can help with a few
pointers.
1. I made it 1020x720.... should it actually be.... 1280x720?
2. I've downloaded several demos of SWF to DVD conversion softwares, yet none
seem to provide the graphics quality once converted. What software is best?
3. What format is best to convert to for the best graphics? .AVI, .MOV, .WMV,
.MP3?
3. What's Bitrate do when converting? I assume higher is better?

Hope someone here can at least provide me a few expert pointers on how to best
get my flash file to widescreen TV with the best quality without spending
hundreds on additional software. Oh, and I am using Flash8 if that matters.

Thanks for any help!!!
KZ

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I had such a dilemma recently too, with the difference I used Flash to export
to different movie formats. None of which I tried provided the same quality as
the swf. But it's not only the formats there's also choice for codecs you can
use. I didn't try all of them because the encoding itself took quite some time.
Maybe someone with more experience could give us an advice on which codec to
use?
Is it possible at all to achieve the quality of the swf?

[mk_1000]

Hello,

i have had also the problem to bring an Flashmovie to DVD in widescreen format.
Here is my solution, maybe ist fits your problem, even late:
- Create Flashmovie with stagesize 1024x576
- create new symbol and insert all frames into this
- delete all frames and layer from the maintimeline
- modify stagesize to 720x576
- insert an instance of the newly created symbol in the main timeline and add
as much frames as you needed
- scale the instance in horizontal direction to stagesize, its about 70.315%
- export swf-file
- convert swf-file to mpeg with an Aspect Ratio 16:9 Widescreen
(i convert with Adshareit SFW2Video, so i need to insert frames as above said)
- add mpeg-file with DVD-Authoring tool to an DVD

so thats it.

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Thanks mk_1000, I'll give this a try.