zoom effect...

[Romulus]

I was looking at an effect done with Flash at:

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

If you click on the movie screen that says 'Japanese launch attack on Pearl Harbour', it will launch a Flash MC that has background on the event. However, there is a zooming technique used in this that is really good. After it has finished zooming in, there is also a '+' and '-' button in the top left hand corner of the screen that allows you to do it yourself.
I'd like to know how you can make an effect like this possible??? (just the basic zooming in on a particular part of an image without losing any of the good quality....not the '+/-' thing)

[sfa]

All they seem to be doing is changing the size of the MC. The bigger it is the more it seems to zoom. Once it is all vectored it doesnt effect the quality. Once the image is so big, probably it would be best to split it. Once it zooms in a certain amount, the larger piece stops zooming not to use up too much memory.

SFA

[tg]

i actually went to a lecture given by the guy who runs secondstory (the company that designed that sight), and they started out with one image, and when you clicked on it it started the zoom with one swf but was finished up with a totaly different swf.
to see more of their work go here (http://www.secondstory.com/?features)
to see another awsome zoom go here (http://www.secondstory.com/?features) click on the image, in the popup when the intro starts just click on the page to skip through it. click on the oval icon on the left (discover an egyptian tomb), and then explore. it is pretty cool. this site seems to go on forever.

[Romulus]

what you're doing with the different swf's, and what they would look like, if you were going to mimick the zoom effect. I picked the 'Pearl Harbour' clip because it was the most straight forward. It's a map and you're blowing it up. Obviously something like that mummy thing (which was extreamly cool!) is way over my head.
But I'm hoping that I can find a way to produce a simple zoom effect.
The way that I wanted to use it involved having a MC with someone playing a guitar. At the end, as he's about to play a chord with the pick, I would want to freeze it there and then zoom in quickly on the pick in his hand so that the pick and his hand would take up the entire screen. But I need to do this without losing any quality of image. I was trying to import a BMP image just to practice with (and then using the trace bitmap tool), to vectorize it to see if that would keep the quality no matter how close I was zoomed in, but it did not.
So now I'm wondering if you use different swf's, how are you getting it to go from one to the next to produce the zoom?
I mean, is script being used to scale the size of these to produce the bigger images??
Sorry I'm having a little trouble with this....

[tg]

not sure exactly how they accomplished it, he kinda went over it really quickly, and i was very new to flash (only using it about a week), so alot of what was said went over my head. go to http://secondstory.com/ and email them and see if they will give you some pointers on setting a similar zoom up or how they did that one.

[Romulus]

I'll give that a shot. See if they'll give me a little help....
thanks.:)