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Incorporating Flash Animation into Premiere Pro Movie
Does anyone know the best way to incorporate flash animation into a Premiere Pro movie?
I am creating a presentation that needs to show web interaction activity – i.e. typing into a browser, showing what/where to click to get to a specific area of the website, etc. I thought it would be easiest to animate the typing/clicking portion using Flash and then import it into Premiere Pro to use within the movie presentation.
In Flash, I am using a 30 fps rate. I am then exporting to a Windows AVI file with settings of:
720 x 480 pixels (same as my Premiere Pro movie)
16 bit color video format
NOT compressingWhen I incorporate it into PPro and then export the entire sequence, the quality of the Flash portion isn’t very good and the animation isn’t smooth.
Anyone have suggestions?
Oh… I tried Quick Time, too, with even worse results.
Thanks in advance!
Jodi
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9 Replies
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https://www.swftools.com/tools-details.php?tool=1602070882
swf2avi > import swf into this software, then export as tga sequences with transparency.
Perry
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If the exports are the right frame rate and you render the file in PPro then it should playback properly. If not I’d say there is something not right in the export from Flash.
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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No need for other programs.
In flash, export — movie, jpeg or or bmp sequence Jpeg works well enough for me.
I would use 640×480 though, and let project PAR strech as required.
George Socka
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Thanks for everyone’s response and help! I’m off to give everything a try.
Thanks, again everyone! 🙂
Jodi
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The difference between using swf2avi vs not is “transparency”.
Perry
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Well, I’ve tried everything, and nothing seems to be working well. Using the SwfAvi and converting to tga sequences would probably be ok if there weren’t so many frames (over 1000) – it just creates a HUGE file in the end.
Would it be better to try to do it all in PPro? Does anyone know how – if it’s possible – to show the “typing” effect in PPro (i.e. one letter at a time coming on screen)?
Thanks, guys…
Jodi
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The files get huge? Each file is not that big, the reason you have so many because each file represent 1 frame. As far as doing the typing effect in PPro, I guess you can animate a keyframe with a track matte… You can do this easily with Premiere elements also.
Perry
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Each individual file wasn’t so big, but when I got them into PPro, it just took about a half hour to render – when it finally finished and I played it back, it was really jumpy and flickered a lot. I tried importing them in both as individual images and then as a single clip (numbered stills), with the same result.
Maybe my export settings are wrong?
File Type = Microsoft DV AVI
Compressor = DV NTSC
Color Depth = Millions of Colors
Pixel Aspect Ratio = Square Pixels (1.0)
Bit Depth = MaximumIt’s going to eventually have to be exported both for the Web and onto DVD, so I was trying to make it DVD-ready first to make sure the quality was good. If you have any suggestions, I’d greatly appreciate them. (I don’t know much about compressing and such, so I was just trying to go by the book.)
I’m going to work on the track matte thing, now – thanks for that! Hopefully once I find a good solution, the rest of the video will go smoothly.
Thanks for your help!
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Where are you seeing the jumpy and flickers? In preview windows? Windows Media Player? What’s your machine specs? Ever try to burn a test DVD to see if it is still jumpy? Could it have to do also with “interlace” problem?
If you are rendering just the portion of the animation, it should not take 30min. Just couple. Perhaps you need to check or uncheck “Optimized Still” option in the general tab?
Hope this help.
Perry
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