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Can AE be used to make interactive Fash graphics ?
Can I use AE to create interactive graphics.
I was considering downloading Adobe Flash to do this but I have some knowledge of AE and it would be great if AE had this ability.Thanks in advance.
Justin.
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After Effects can create a movie that is exportable as flash, the only things that are interactive is that you can assign hyperlinks to markers, so when a movie is playing, and that time in the timeline is hit, the browser jumps to the next URL.
That’s it: no click/mouse-over etc.Sometimes it may seam easier to start animating in After Effects because it has better timeline controls (in my experience) but when you export to flash, you can very illogical results: a new movieclip for every frame and every image in that frame, before you know it, you have 15000 symbols in the flash library and it slows to a halt. Click once, wait five minutes.
I have no experience with the new interchange format between flash and AE CS4, that’s supposed to keep the layers in the timeline, and looks to be mostly developped for injecting video in flash, not aniamtion per se.
I used to know my way around macromedia director very well, now I’m an after effects nut, but I really hate Flash, it has such a different way of thinking about timelines …
So if it’s a bigger project, do some previz animations in After effects, and get a real Flash programmr to do the endresult. or risk the jump and ask around in some Flash forums for more advice maybe.Good luck!
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If you take a look at my web page: http://www.kennethgreen.net, I used After Effects for the animation. I then exported to Flash [as a movie]. I placed where buttons should be and included VERY simple Action Script commands, and presto, a moderately interactive menu. I obtained basic Flash knowledge in college. All in all, it’s very simple.
Also, if you look at https://www.universalimages.com/
They used the same concept I did. The designers give the illusion that this is complicated Flash interactivity and design. When in essence, all they did was design and animate in AE, Maya, etc. and then export as Flash movies. Threw in some roll-over button scripts [which you can look up online] and there you have it.
KennethGreen.net
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Thanks for your feed back.
I think I am looking for something much more interactive than the link you showed above.
I will design it in AE then try to replicate it in Flash then add the interactivity I need.Thank you.
J.
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