I recently tried to do so and it doesn't come out. The screen is either blank or it comes out as a grey square. It is 78 frames long and it has a .mov in one of the layers. (Maybe thats the problem, but how do I fix it?)
I did File>Export Animation and put the output format as Flash (swf). Did I do something wrong? Please help!
How do I properly export my file into a .swf?
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h3artbr0ken
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Does it just have a movie on one layer? Are you trying to export a flash "flv" type thing?
Many people get confused by Flash/SWF exporting from AS because a lot of video is "presented" as an SWF format or using the Flash FLV format to play video files (Youtube for example or other video sharing sites). If you are trying to us AS to export "flash Video" you can forget it. That isn't what it does. AS SWF export is the "basic" type or SWF, that is vector animation, not video or FLV.
Flash/SWF can be used to combine and present two types of content; video and vector based animation. AS exports vector based SWF animation but can't export to FLV or raster based Flash/swf video format.
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Other things to look at is what types of effects are you trying to export in your SWF. Besides the video layer, some of the layer effects aren't going to export "properly" to SWF. Bones controlling vector layers with flexible binding will produce much larger files than layer only animation.
-vern
Many people get confused by Flash/SWF exporting from AS because a lot of video is "presented" as an SWF format or using the Flash FLV format to play video files (Youtube for example or other video sharing sites). If you are trying to us AS to export "flash Video" you can forget it. That isn't what it does. AS SWF export is the "basic" type or SWF, that is vector animation, not video or FLV.
Flash/SWF can be used to combine and present two types of content; video and vector based animation. AS exports vector based SWF animation but can't export to FLV or raster based Flash/swf video format.
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Other things to look at is what types of effects are you trying to export in your SWF. Besides the video layer, some of the layer effects aren't going to export "properly" to SWF. Bones controlling vector layers with flexible binding will produce much larger files than layer only animation.
-vern
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windstormer
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It's a big question. Here's one suggestion: if you have a scene where only a small section is being animated, just animate that section in AS and then import that into Flash. I did this with a guard restraining a prisoner by holding his struggling arm. I just animated that bit in AS. The rest of the scene was drawon out in Flash. Made for a much smaller file size.windstormer wrote:I'm having the same difficulty. Thanks Vern for the insight how the swf works in AS.
What is the best way or method, that you see, to produce a quality animation using the choices made available with AS?
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?