• Adobe After Effects

  Export to swf problem…

  Posted by Jay Byron on October 9, 2006 at 4:44 am

  I did the 3D Reflections and animated signature tutorials. I want to incorporate these in a web site. I exported as .swf files but was only able to play movie if I “rastorized” instead of “ignored” unsupported features in swf settings when exporting. My file size was much bigger when rastorized. What’s up? Thanks for your help.

  Jay Byron replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tim Kurkoski

  October 10, 2006 at 8:05 pm

  Rasterized means that the images are turned into frame-by-frame pixel data, the same as a normal video file. SWF files normal describe the images using vector data, which simply describes the shapes and math of the images and thus requires much less data.

  Because the SWF format doesn’t support every type of effect that AE can create (or in some cases, AE doesn’t know how to translate what it does to SWF), some effects have to be rasterized, which means you end up with larger file sizes.
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  Jay Byron

  October 10, 2006 at 9:31 pm

  Thanks for the response. I guess I’ll have to live with a larger file.

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