2 questions from an After Effects learner

[Sedesign]

answer to the second question is that AVI files will not work for a moving background for the web. You have to convert your AE media be it AVI, MOV, MPEG etc to a SWF file in order to use it with flash. AE can do this but take in mind this is a new feature in AE and it does not support 3D, cameras, lights, and a lot of the FX you’d use. My suggestion is to get your hands on a copy of “sqeeze” That way you can output from AE using all the wonderful toys into a Mpeg, AVI, mov etc.. Squeeze then converts your media into a SWF file there. And at this point cant tell the difference between cameras, lights etc.. hope that helps

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[Jsloman]

Hello there,

I am certainly not an expert, but I think that your file size depends alot on the compression you are using. If you are rendering a 10sec clip at 320×240 uncompressed, it would likely turn out to be in in that file range. However, using quicktimes h.264 compression, even at best quality would probably come out around 1-2mb. Does this help at all?

Jared Loman – jtechproductions.com

[Syed Iqbal]

thanks dear,
Note that the Flash based presentation is not intended for use on web, it will only be run on PC or a data show.
As far as importing AVI, MOV or MPEG files (videos) into Flash is concerned, I am pretty confident that you an import these files either directly on the stage or if you wish to make that video sequence as your movie clip in Flash then you can import that at the time line of that movie clip symobol in Flah.

Do you mean AE excludes all camera, lights layers while exporting the content as SWF?

I will try to search Squeeze on the net as trial version if available.

Thanks again

[Syed Iqbal]

Dear Loman
Thanks for your feedback. Just let me know, where can I change these settings? You could send the screen shot at my email address nofiljee@gmail.com and I will appreciate that a lot.

One more thing, what are the technques behind designing a great composition? I feel as if I cannot jot down everything on a piece of paper before going any further. On the other hand, the long list of available effects and the endless possibilities sometimes overwhelmes me and the work comes to a hault.

I just want to get rid of this feeling and wishing so desparately to adopt a proper way of goin g through any design process. Any suggestions from you or other will be tons of assistance for me.

Take care.

[Michael Szalapski]

Don’t export your video (unless you’re exporting flash stuff) use the Render Queue. There are LOADS of options in the Render Queue for outputting video at various levels of compression and various formats. Read the manual on how to use it.

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[Sedesign]

yes. when exporting from AE to a SWF file it ignores things like cameras, lights, 3D effects / layers etc… I must have been confused when i read your post. I had (what i thought) a similar problem a while back where i needed some fancy graphics for a site i was making and i am NOT a flash programmer however i am an AE user. So my solution was squeeze.

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