combining AE and Flash?

[Mike James]

Someone had a good link to a tutorial about this. It might have even been a cow tutorial. I’ll dig around and see if I can find that link because it was sooooo detailed.

FYI, Adobe originally said that the new video collection (which includes After Effects) will release in the 4th Quarter. Which means that AE7 which has a seamless export to Flash (with alpha channels) is right around the corner.

But for now I’ll hunt for that link.

Mike James
VFXpodcast.com

[Jimmie]

thanks Mike.

hope you find the link. 🙂

[Kathlyn Lindeboom]

Here’s the link to our AE-Flash tutorial:
https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/brimelow_lee/ae4flash1/index.html

This tutorial demonstrates animating text in AE exporting it to Flash. Hope it helps.

Kathlyn Lindeboom
The Mistress of Mmmooooo!

[Jimmie]

yeah, I’ve seen that tutorial already. Thanks anyway.

I am hoping for a tutorial going the other way, from Flash to AE.

Take my Flash movie into AE Pro, and add some effects.

[Kelly Johnson]

Well, you can import swf files and quicktime movies into AE which you can create out of FlashMX.

I did this for a tradeshow website. I created a presentation in Flash which linked to a movie. Then, within that movie I had imported a separate swf file and put that in an AE composition which I rendered out as a quicktime movie that was then exported as an flv file out of AE. That flv was put inside a separate flash file and was called from the first.

Just keep the framerate the same between the two. You can export a quicktime movie or w