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A screen capture captures whatever number of pixels you are grabbing. If
your monitor is 1600x1200 and you capture the entire screen, then the
resolution you have captures is 1600x1200.

Then two things are happening:

1) you are making it a JPG, which is lossy compresion
2) you are shrinking it to 800 x 600.

To shrink it, Flash has to 'throw away' 75% of the pixels of the original.
So, no matter what, you are ending up with a lower resolution image than
what you started with.

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That would make sense. Why? You can only show 800x600 pixels in your final
presentation. What's the point of capturing more than that?

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If the images are that resolution, then yes, if you increase the size of the
flash file, you should be able to see all of the pixels at that particular
resolution.

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As long as you bring the images in at 100%, the available resolution of the
images shouldn't change at all.

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'Actual' size.

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I'm not sure what RoBo is, but have you considered using a product like
RoboDemo for this type of thing? That should handle everything for you.

-Darrel

Hi,
When I screen capture [using RoBo ScreenCapture] either web pages off the Net,
or dialog boxes of programs [I'm using Flash for a presentation instead of PP]
the images are pixelated or fuzzy or well, not good enough.
Let me explain In using RoBo, I make the capture at the highest Jpeg
resolution possible. When I bring the jpeg into Flash [import directly into
Library] and bring on the stage, I have to resize the image because it is too
big for the stage [being 800X600]. The projector I will be using for the
presentation is 800X600.so I set the stage for that.
When I publish the file and review it [setting my monitor to 800X600] the
images look terrible.
Maybe I should explain that when I do the screen captures at first, my monitor
is set at 1600X1200.
Should I set it at 800X600 when doing the captures first? I mean, does this
affect the final output of the resolution of the jpg's when they are placed in
Flash after the capture and import into the Library?
I have had to make captures of web pages, so I have my monitor set at
1600X1200 normally so I can get the most real estate on the screen as possible.
I make the screen captures using that monitor setting. But I have my Flash
movie stage set at 800X600.
My questions are:
1. Should I do the captures with the monitor set at 800X600 if the Flash stage
is 800X600? If so, why?
2. If the projector resolution is 800X600, can I set my Flash stage at a
higher size [resolution], say 1024X768? Will that actually affect the
resolution when the Flash movie is projected on a projector with an 800X600
resolution if the Flash movie stage is larger?
3. What affects the final resolution output of the BMP images [jpeg's] in
Flash for a presentation like I am doing?
4. What size should I capture the images at so I don't have to resize them in
Flash?

WHAH! I just want this presentation to be successful. It's a training session
on educating folks on computer virus prevention/protection from and ID theft,
something this world is in dire need of!

Thanks in advance form anyone who can help me,

Ellen:confused;

Thanks Darrell,
Appreciate the advice. RoboScreenCapture was a free program Macromedia offered a few years ago that does . . . . screen captures. I'll check out RoboDemo.