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If you have already tried to export a big movie 'After effect' in 'swf' (flash format), you've probably encountered a problem during the export. Whether animation crashes after a certain time or freezes directly, many people find themselves stuck because they do not want to start over.The solution and go through the FLV video format and incorporate it into a flash file (swf).Informations. This tutorial was made in Flash and After effect CS6 CS6. This method requires at least Adobe Flash Player 8.1.
After effect - Rendering FLVLet's start by opening our project 'After effect'.To make a record of your movie, go to the menu 'Composition - Add to the render queue'.Then click the 'output module: non-destructive' (written in orange).Select the format 'FLV' and check the 'Audio Output' box at the bottom if you have sound in your animation. If you want to adjust the speed of the audio output, click the 'Option format' button in the 'Audio Output'.In the queue record, now click on 'Destin: Compositionx.avi' (written in orange). Select the name to save the animation '.flv'.Rendering can take a long time depending on the size of animation.2. Flash - FLV to SWFOnce we have our video in FLV format, we will create a new flash file to incorporate. To do this, open Adobe Flash and go to the 'File - New' menu.Indicated the same parameters as for your composition in After Effects and click 'OK'.Then, go to File - Import - Import Video.Click 'Browse' to select your FLV video and then select 'Add the FLV file in SWF and Play In Timeline'.Select 'Embedded Video' and check if necessary 'Include Audio'.Now if you move the cursor over the red scenario, your animation should animate as in After Effect.To ensure compatibility with the most people possible, we recommend that you publish your flash file for an older version of flash.
To do this, go to File - Publish Settings.Select 'Adobe Flash Player 8' or a more recent version and click 'OK'.Important:.flv files using the VP6 codec, they require a version of Adobe Flash Player 8 (or higher).Finally, export your animation swf by going to: File - Export - Export animation.Your animation created with 'Adobe After Effect' is now exported swf.
Using After Effects and Flashby Jim Tierney, Palo Alto, Ca, USA©2001 Jim Tierney. All Rights Reserved. Used at CreativeCow.net by kind permission of the author.Article Focus:This is part of a presentation Jim Tierney will be giving at. The presentation will be on using AE and Flashtogether, with some intro tips for Flash, info on what is supported asvector (the info presented here), the best way to get it out of AE, thebest way to get it into Flash, and when and why you should use AE to createFlash content.The Flashing Cow (and other lurid tales):Using After Effects and FlashFlashI'm assuming that if you're interested in this topic you know something of Flash, so I'm not going to go into a great deal of detail on it. I do want to explain one thing, since I mention it several times later on.
That thing is Symbols.What is a Symbol?A Symbol has many uses, but the attribute were concerned with at the moment, is it's use as a 're-usable' element in Flash.What do you mean 're-usable'?Well, if you copy and paste something in photoshop, for example, if you copy a picture and paste it into a new layer, the photoshop file size goes up. It now has two layers with, say, a 640x480 image on both of them. It saves each copy of the image, resulting in a larger file size.In Flash, if you make a copy of a Symbol (which can be a 640x480 image), it only includes the original image once. Every time you copy it, it just makes a pointer to it (or proxy is another way of putting it).Flash has the great capability of being able to have multiple copies of something and every time it needs to display one of the copies, it just looks over at the original and uses that.
It doesn't need to save all the image data for each copy.For example.we have a single 200x200 pixel JPEG Symbol, which takes up about 10K by itself. The.swf file is 16K.If we duplicate that single 200x200 pixel JPEG fourteen more times, and animate a few of them, we end up, which is 19K.That's 15 copies of a 10K image, with animation that takes up a whole 19K of space.
Using Symbols can be a very powerful way of keeping your file size manageable, espicially if you're using bitmap images.Hopefully, that makes sense. The key thing to remember is that if you have copies of Symbols saved in a file, they don't increase the file size. And it's extremely important to keep Flash files (.swf files) down in size, as they'll usually be downloaded over the net.When does After Effects save out vector objects?There are four cases where AE saves out elements as vector objects:1) Solid layers with Masks2) Illustrator files (without gradients)3) The Path Text plug-in4) The Audio Spectrum and Waveform filters1. Solid Layers With MasksPretty simple stuff.
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The primary way of getting vector objects out of AE is to create a mask on a solid layer (created with the New Solid command). Unfortunately, you can't duplicate the layer, and have the duped layer reference the original as a symbol. Each mask on each layer is a different symbol. So even if you have a mask in the shape of star, and you replicate it 10 times, and don't change anything, AE will still put it in the Flash file 10 different times.It's fine if you just want to animate one shape or something, but, like I said, one of the key ingredients in keeping the.swf file size down is to use Symbols. If you can't make copies of something that can be referenced, you can't make symbols. This is one of those cases where just designing like you normally would in AE, will bite you when you go to Flash, and you CAN'T fix the fact that you have 20 layers with a star mask (or whatever) that aren't referenced. If each layer is doing it's own thing rotating, and moving, but the mask is exactly the same, there's no reason they shouldn't be a symbol.
So now you have 20 symbols when you pull it into Flash, where you should have just one.So what to do about it2. Illustrator FilesUse Illustrator files. Illustrator files are maintained as vectors as well, and more importantly they're referenced.So, if we bring in a star shape created in Illustrator, and put it on a layer, any duplicates of that layer will be referenced. If we make 10 duplicate layers, only ONE star shape will show up in Flash when we import the.swf file. The other layers that use that star shape will just reference that one copy of it.Depending on the complexity of the vector object and how many duplicates you have, the amount the file size is going to be reduced will vary, but can be quite significant. The other advantage is that objects are generally easier to create in Illustrator anyways, since you have the full complement of tools.For simple stuff you're not going to re-use, masks are fine, but for most other stuff, I recommend going the Illustrator route.One note about Illustrator objects, make sure you don't use gradients. Only Illustrator files with flat color fills (and stroked paths) will be saved as Vector objects.
If an AI file has a gradient it will be either rasterized, or left out of the.swf file, depending on your export settings (discussed later). You can't use gradients with masks either, so it's not really a disadvantage just something to know.3. Path TextProbably the most useful vector supported feature in AE is path text. Flash has some pretty decent type tools.
By and large they're better than what you find in AE, however, there isn't anything like Path Text.The only instance where Path Text is rasterized is where Fill Over Stroke is utilitized, which is one of the rendering modes. It's not that big of a deal, as I don't know that I ever would have used it if not for having to write this. Path Text as your probably aware lets you use a path (mask) to have letters follow around. It gives you a lot of animation control that you don't have in Flash.As you can see in this, we can animate the tracking, have it randomly animate the scale of each letter, the position, etc.You could do some of this in Flash, but the issue is that, you have to break the text apart, which means that you can't edit it after you animate it. If I decided to change this text to 'motion graphics' and I was in Flash, I'd have to redo the complete animation.Since it's Path Text I can just open up the options dialog and change the text. Badda bing, same animation, same everything, except different words.I can then animate the path and do all sorts of other stuff to the text that wouldn't be doable or would be difficult in Flash.
Very easy stuff in AE, tho.:) Take a look at it4. Audio Waveform/SpectrumInteresting couple filters and very cool to play with.They're very useful for creating elements that can be used in Flash. If you need to create some randomly animating lines or create something to go along with or based on an audio file, these filters do it very well. Basically, it takes an audio file and renders out the waveform in a vector.I'll show you a couple examples of the type of stuff it does.
It works pretty similar to Path Text. You can assign a path to it and have it follow the path or just leave it alone, and it will animate based on an audio file you specify.It also has a built in polar coordinates filter, which gives you a look like. As you may have noticed, the file size can get kind of large. Espicially if you turn on the gradient feature (Hue Interpolation). This doesn't actually create a gradient, but it does cause each line segment to be a different color. This can cause a pretty dramatic increase in size. Just take a look at the file size of the above file.Basically, just a neat little filter for automatically creating randomly animating lines, which can be very useful.
As far as I know there aren't any limitations on it, that would cause it to rasterize.5. The Export DialogAlright, what does all this junk mean?JPEG Quality: Should be pretty self-explanatory If something gets rasterized, it's going to become a jpeg image, and this just sets the quality of the ensuing jpeg image.Unsupported Features pop-up: This defines what happens when AE can't save something out as a vector. If you have Ignore selected, then anything that isn't a vector doesn't get saved in the.swf file. For example, if you have an Illustrator file in the shape of a star, and the outline of the star is just a stroked path, but the inside has a gradient applied to it This will cause just the stroked outline to be saved to the.swf file.
Since the gradient would cause the star to be rasterized, the unsupported gradient is left out. If you select Rasterize for this pop-up, then anything that can't be saved as a vector will be rasterized as a JPEG image, with the quality set to the amount in the JPEG Quality slider.Audio Controls: Turn this on if you want your.swf file to have audio. The three pop-ups control the quality of the audio.Loop Continuously: By default this is off, causing your Flash movie to play once, then stop. Selecting this is just like selecting 'Loop' in the Quicktime Player it causes the.swf movie to play over and over and over again.Prevent Import: This prevents the.swf file from being imported into the Flash application, so people can't reverse engineer your movie. There are ways to get around this, so don't put too much faith in it.Include Object Names and Include Layer Marker Web Links: Just means those things will show up in the Flash application if you import it in there.Flatten Illustrator Files: This is appears to be buggy, but I haven't heard one way or the other from anyone at Adobe about it.6. Other NotesOne other bug jpeg files aren't referenced like they're supposed to be.
If you import a logo saved as a jpeg, and use it 20 times, it should only be saved once. Currently, it's saved in the.swf file 20 times. This is a bug and should be fixed in a future version of AE.The AE Team chose to implement vector support in as many places as possible over spending the time to optimize the file size of exported.swf files. This is a fair choice given that AE doesn't support most of Flash's key features (interactivity for example), and you are most likely going to bring it into Flash anyways to add interactivity and use with other elements. Flash will then do the optimizing when you re-export out of it.When you import an AE.swf into Flash you'll notice that there are a large number of Symbols created. AE creates a Symbol for each object, on each frame, so in the name of convenience, keep your animations short or you'll end up with several hundred Symbols.
There's a bit more to it than that, but just be careful about exporting long animations. You may end up with a couple thousand Symbols in your library.Hope you enjoyed it.cheers,Jim-Jim TierneyDigital Anarchy. Jim Tierney is the creator of Digital Anarchy and has worked on some of the most widely known and respected After Effects plug-in packages out there. Starting at MetaCreations, with Final Effects, and moving on to Atomic Power and their Evolution and Psunami packages. He also worked for Cycore for awhile, but was primarily involved with their 3D software and only remotely involved with Cult Effects.
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