• Adobe After Effects

  Exporting to .SWF, image compression question

  Posted by John Cee on September 18, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the image compression when exporting to .SWF in AE.

  Here’s what I have in my comp:
  – Camera
  – Particular
  – Picture

  When I export the comp to .SWF format and use a quality of 2, the particular layer is fine since it’s in movement and doesn’t show any signs of bad graphics. The problem is the picture, it is very pixelated… and since it’s not moving it’s pretty obvious.

  My question is: Is there a way for me to export it to .SWF but somehow specificaly target the picture and make the quality of it better without having to turn up the whole .SWF quality?

  Since I’m using particular, if I turn it up to say 6 (high) the file becomes way too big just to make picture look decent.

  Thank you for your help.

  John Cee replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brendan Coots

  September 20, 2008 at 6:36 am

  Can you export just the camera/particular elements to SWF, then drop the picture behind them once in Flash?

  Brendan Coots
  Splitvision Digital
  http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
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  John Cee

  September 20, 2008 at 12:00 pm

  Hi Brendan, first of all thank you for your advice.

  I need to put a solid background that takes up the whole comp or else the .SWF is about 3 to 4 times the size if it’s “transparent” style. File size is an issue in this case so I don’t think I can use this method.

  Thanks. 🙂
  -John

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