Finally

Well I finally have an issue. With work.

For the record this post will contain no inapropriate disclosures of any kind. Just general information.

I have these diagrams I have to animate of a circuit. The circuit image has to be rather large 700 pixels wide by 1200 pixels tall to be exact.
And then it has to have an additive overlay animation that "glows" the sections of circuits as they power on and off during operation of the circuit functions.
Now storing a 700x1200 jpg is a bit pricey when the budget for each loaded page across the net is supposed to be 750kb. I knocked that down a bit by vectorizing the core circuit image from 621kb down to 67 kb with negligable degredation of image quality.
My issue is the glow animations. I can't output them as vectors. The post render effect won't work through the mesh to vector converter since the converter plugin doesn't access the video post render routines in any way.

I refuse to hand create vector based glows because I have over 27 of these unique screens with glow animations and that option is just not acceptable.

So I am banging around a few alternatives.
#1. Talk to the course writer and SME about size. Do we really need the glow or can it be a sheesier, crappier looking overlay. Then I could vectorize it but it would not be whiz-bang like it is now.
#2. Isolate the frames and render them out as individual image layovers and compile them in swf to do what I need.
This is not a tremendous amount of work since the most complex animation only has 10 frames and I don't have to do any new work other than compiling. The only problem is that size may not really be effectively reduced since I will still be saving some larger stage images as a full 700x1200 index anyway. So the savings is questionable.
#3. Tell the customer that noone really needs to know about, or cares about, these circtuitry diagrams anyway so we should just drop them altogether. HEHEHE yeah right.

Oh well. At least it is an interesting problem and not just some "lack of resources" issue or something.