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AE or Flash??
Since AE can export to .swf or .fla, is there any reason not to use AE to create all of my flash animations? I own flash 8 but find the interface counter-intuitive. (and why can’t they convert the timeline to seconds instead of frames or am i missing something?)
Anyways, I’m wanting to do just images and text fading in and out and to post them as a .swf on a website. Any reason not to do this in AE?
Thanks in advance!
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primarily because AE isn’t vector and as such creates FAR bigger files for that sort of thing than flash does. if you’re needing to do something that’ll be viewed on a cd or something similar than AE would be great, but for web stuff flash is usually still the best option.
chris
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Thanks Chris, but AE now exports text as vector art when exporting to Flash (as either a swf or fla), so I don’t see the difference…. ?
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i haven’t looked into AE 7 much yet, but if it is in fact vector and scalable and the file size is comparable then go for it 🙂 only real reason to use flash would be file size considerations or if you need to add in additional controls to the movie.
chris
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It actually works in 6.5 as well. Here’s some good info for you! https://www.creativecow.net/articles/brimelow_lee/ae4flash1/ae4flash1.html
🙂
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I’d somehow missed that one, i’ll check it out, thanks 🙂
chris
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There are still issues using After Effects to create Flash animations. Flash can only accept one mask bringing in AE swfs, for instance. In the past I’ve used a Flash reduction program, Flash Optimiizer, it saves about 20% of the file size.
I’ve knuckled down and learnt how to use Flash though. It’s well worth it, although if you’re still not happy, then SWiSH Max is a cheap standalone Flash program that creates easy animations and even has guided scripting. Might be worth checking out.
Graham
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