Scanning a Drawing for Flash Animation: File Formats

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Cable, for Expert Village. In this clip, we're going to go over some of our scanning principles to go ahead and capture all of our drawn frames. After you're finished scanning, it's important to come up with a name you can mention, and be sure that you know where you're saving your files and what you're naming them. Choose an appropriate file format. Tif is always good; pretty high quality, low compression. Make a folder. Know where you're putting that folder. And put all your images, all your files that you scanned, in one folder. Now after you have all your files scanned, you can see, if we open up the folder where we've designated all our files to be saved in, that by default; and usually with most scanning software and ink and paint programs, you can rename your files in a particular way so they make sense. We have less than 10 frames. So we'll have from 0001 to 0008 files in our folder. And this makes sense to most programs. It will let us handle them easier when we start to ink and paint them."