3D COMP EXPORT TO FLASH

[Steve Roberts]

There’s no advantage in that.

By “unsupported”, AE means that the feature will be rasterized in an SWF file. It will appear as it does in the comp window, but the resulting SWF will be a huge animated JPEG movie, not a small vector movie.

So creating a quicktime movie, then exporting that as SWF will probably get you the exact same big rasterized SWF file. To reiterate, it will look fine, but be a really big SWF. How big? Do a test.

If you don’t mind big SWFs, go ahead. Otherwise, if you really want 3D in a nice small vector SWF, I recommend starting with Swift3D, not AE. AE rasterizes just about everything, since it was designed as a video app, not a Flash app.

Anybody else?

Steve

[Nathan]

you could also do a batch compression on the resulting jpg image sequence, that my free up som mb’s also do a squeeze n a resulting QT movie. But yes Siwft would be a good way to go. I use Lightwave with the swift plugin and I can get good 3d stuff at a low cost.