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Flash -> AE options
I’ll admit it: I assumed this would be easy and intuitive. All I’m doing with Flash is drawing a simple animation with the pencil. I’ve actually only done the first frame. As a proof of concept, I went ahead and tried to import that one-frame flash into AE.
AE can’t import it.
See, here’s the reason why this is a problem. Yes, I could probably generate an AVI or whatever. But the point behind doing all this in Flash was that you can zoom in real close in a Flash animation, and because it’s all vectors, there’s no detail loss – at least not in the bitmap sense. That’s sort of what I wanted to do with this thing in AE. Zoom in with the camera, and my background layer (a sheet of paper) and the Flash pencil animation would both zoom in, and the Flash would lose no detail. I plan, at times, to zoom WAY in (example: I plan to have an extreme closeup of the character’s face).
So. What am I looking at? The need to create an AVI with a ridiculously high resolution (looking at 50000+ by 50000+), just so I can capture the detail that is natively inherent in a Flash animation?
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Are you using CS3?
I’ll assume you aren’t.
The ability to import swf files was added in CS3. -
True enough. Stuck with AE7. It can import a SWF but it evidently doesn’t do it correctly.
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