New site: http://www.hallmedia.com

[hey_suburbia]

I'm working on our companies new site and would like to hear any suggestions/critiques. "interactive" and "markets" don't work under "work". How do the .flv's run on your computer? especially those on MACS..

THANK YOU

http://www.hallmedia.com

[squan]

Great work, nice colours!

Your office looks cool too.

[hey_suburbia]

Great work, nice colours!

Your office looks cool too.

Thanks. We're shooting a video for it tommorow to replace the xml picture slideshow. We spent a lot of time programming the left menu under "work". How was the performance? On older MACS, it tends to studder a little doing menu transistions. It's all actionscript too, no motion tweens.

Was there anything that bothered you about the site?

Mickey
http://www.hallmedia.com

[squan]

The menu works flawless on my pc, and I did some preeeeeetty crazy clicking on it! ;)

And I haven't found any downsides yet. I was going to say "add some sound", but the site works just super without, so ...

:thumb:

[slinkyart]

Very nice! It's warm and inviting and it keeps the users interest to want to click around and look at what your company is all about! :thumb: Great work!

~cheers

[treatkor]

looks nice. the .flv videos were pretty much un-watchable on my Mac (G4 400mhz with flash player 8 beta). audio and video both very "stuttery". but other than that it looks very nice and all the flash motion seems nice and smooth.

i recently built a site that uses flash video (mo-pho.com), at first all the video stuff was a mystery to me but after some reading i figured it out. below are the Squeeze3 settings i used.

I also recommend checking out this article on Macromedia's site: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_encoding.html


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<AceSettings>
<Configuration Name="Medium" OutputType="Flash FLV" DefaultName="Progressive Broadband Low" EnableAudio="True" EnableVideo="True">
<VideoCompressionSettings CodecType="Sorenson Spark Pro">
<DataRate Value="368640"/>
<FrameRate Value="1:1"/>
<OutputSize Width="240" Height="180"/>
<BitRateMode Value="Sorenson Two Pass VBR"/>
<NumberOfDisposableFrames Value="0"/>
<CompressionSpeed Value="0"/>
<DropFramesEnable Value="False"/>
<KeyFrameRate Value="60"/>
<AutoKeyFrameEnable Value="True"/>
<AutoKeyFrameSensitivity Value="50"/>
<MinQualityEnable Value="False"/>
<MinQualityValue Value="50"/>
<ImageSmoothingEnable Value="False"/>
</VideoCompressionSettings>

<AudioCompressionSettings CodecType="Fraunhofer MP3">
<DataRate Value="128000"/>
<SampleRate Value="44100"/>
<ChannelCount Value="2"/>
</AudioCompressionSettings>

<PlaybackSettings/>
</Configuration>

</AceSettings>

[hey_suburbia]

treatkor,

Thanks a lot. We are currently HEAVILY experimenting with different .flv settings.

I saw that Sorenson 4.2 will use the new flv codec that flash 8 will support, we were also looking into the Flash Communication server, soon to be named (Flash Media Server).

I think in about 6 months, flash video will be totally redifined by flash 8 and their new codec... too bad this site needs to be done within a week... :tired:

Anyway, thanks for the settings, we will add them to our list of options.

[BoonDock]

I think that everything works except for the logo in the upper right of the site...the colors don't mesh well with everything else. Other than that, it seems pretty sound. Ya might think of just getting rid of the intro though...most people don't want to sit through intros anymore.

[Tocksiq]

i think this site is nicly layed out and professional i like the colors too

[Zach-E2]

not bad, man..
the preloader is over extended height wise. it goes outside of the box about a pixel or two on the top.