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exporting
hi i am new to these forums and also very new to AE.
i have an animation with 2 jpegs a stroke effect and text animation, now i want to put it on my site and i would assume that exporting it as .swf would be the best option. i find that it doesnt come out the same and the file size is huge.
can any one advise me on the proper way to this?
thank you in advance, and i did look around the forums for a while but it ended up confusing me even more :0(
Alan
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2 Replies
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What is the final destination for your animation? the web? Maybe you need to try to export (render is better) and flv, if flash is your final destination).
For swf to be small they need to be from Vector layers and raster effects like stroke are killers for file size, as are the jpegs.
Audio Waveform is a nice vector substitute for Stroke (just don’t reference any audio in the plugin and it looks like Stroke). But the jpeg layers will always be raster and therefore big. The only options are AE solid layers or Illustrator (vector) layers in AE.
Here is the place to see which layer will keep a swf small:
See “Supported Features for SWF Export” at bottom.
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first of all thank you for replying,
the final output is for web.
if i do it with an flv, will the outcome still be the same on the site? meaning…can i have it on a background and not have a border (basically just blending it in to the background)?
and how do i render as opposed to exporting?
im sorry that i basically know nothing and probably shouldnt be using these tools.thank you for your time
Alan
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