Hi sorry to repost, i am super curious as to how to get this working.
In a previous post, I asked how the video was done on this website intro. The file is very very small (under 2 MB) and the quality looks great, even when scaled to full screen.
http://www.shiseido.co.jp/anessa/
Pieter Helsen was kind enough to reply:
"On top of the video is an overlay with a checkered black and transparent pattern. Because of this, you can cut lower the quality of the video enormously without the video appearing to be of low quality or blocky."
OK so this makes sense to me, but here at my office we cant work out how to do this exactly. We created a few grids in an external program then brought those into flash as PNG. But the website seems to have the grid programmed into flash, so it was created in flash somehow? Our attempts look very blocky, and upscaling the video makes the grid look terrible.
Any insight into this process, or even if you could tell us what this technique is actually called - we would be most thankful for your help.
Thanks!
J.