• Apple Motion

  Saving Apple Motion projects as a swf file.

  Posted by David on April 3, 2005 at 3:23 pm

  Hello,

  I am using Apple Motion software to create “flash” based projects for webbased presentations. How do I save Apple Motion projects to be used in web based work or as a “swf” file?

  Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated.

  Thank you,

  David

  Skip Hunt replied 21 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
• 5 Replies

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  Noah Kadner

  April 4, 2005 at 1:29 am

  You don’t as there’s no support for creating SWFs with Motion. Best thing to do would be to create a video and convert to Flash video.

  Noah
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  David

  April 4, 2005 at 5:14 am

  Noah,

  Thank you for your response! How would I do this converting motion video to flash video

  best regards,

  David
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  Richard Harrington

  April 4, 2005 at 5:18 am

  Flash has the basic converter included

  For best results.. get Sorenson Squeeze (which is a much better replacement for the basically defunct Cleaner and more versatile than Compressor).

  -Rich

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors
  Co-Author Final Cut Pro On The Spot & After Effects on the Spot
  Check out the new DVD: Photoshop CS: Essentials for Digital Video from http://www.vasst.com

  edit – produce – direct –
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  Richard Harrington

  April 4, 2005 at 5:19 am

  BTW.. I am sure Noan knew this and/or has his own opinions… he’s just so damn fast at answering.. so I figured I better get a post in while I could (grin)

  -Rich

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors
  Co-Author Final Cut Pro On The Spot & After Effects on the Spot
  Check out the new DVD: Photoshop CS: Essentials for Digital Video from http://www.vasst.com

  edit – produce – direct –
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  Skip Hunt

  April 4, 2005 at 1:21 pm

  I tried the Sorenson demo and it’s incredible. I did time comparisons with Cleaner 6 and the difference was staggering. Like the difference between 4hrs and 20mins for the same compression flavor. And, the Sorenson Spark component blows Sorenson 3 out of the water. And mpeg 4 for that matter.

  If you have AE, you can just import your lossless movie into AE and export as an .swf if you’re not embedding into a Flash Movie.

  I don’t get why you export as flv, then import into Flash to make an swf? Why not just make an swf to begin with? Or, is the flv format exclusively for embedding video into a flash movie without having to reference an external file?

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