problem importing SWF files

[Todd Kopriva]

Did you read the caveats in After Effects Help about importing SWF files?

from After Effects Help:
“SWF (continuously rasterized)
Note: SWF files are imported with an alpha channel. Audio is not retained. Interactive content and scripted animation are not retained. Animation defined by keyframes in the main, top-level movie is retained.”

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[Marina Zurkow]

I am baffled by the same problem. In AFX I get a blank 72 x 72 single frame. The swf file appears/animates fine in flash, and bridge. I have been successfully importing swf files to after effects for years. I did some trouble shooting with Flash’s export settings, and no luck.
There is no script, not even movie clips. Just straight animation made up of graphic objects, placed on the stage timeline…
Help! I have not found any information on this. other than this one posting.

[Frederick Ross]

I’m Having this same problem I was working with the flash files fine but I opened the AE file today and all my Flash animation file are 72×72 and 1 frame of black. They were working for the last few days, but not now. Any solutions to this. Im on AE CS5. I just tried to open it in AE CS5.5 and it opened and is reading the flash files fine. Why does it not work it CS5 all the sudden.

[Chris Forrester]

Same problem here where I am freelancing. I am on a mac os X lion 10.7.2 Mid 2010 Mac Pro. Using AE CS 5.5 with full updates.

I am having swfs working occasionally and then sometimes when i reopen the aep file I get ALL of my swfs as a 72×72 blank image. nothing has changed with the original swf, once it happen any new swfs I import are also coming in the same.

I end up having to shut down and reopen AE to kind of reset this, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. It is becoming really tiresome now.

Did anyone find a solution yet to whats causing this problem?

Thanks in advance

-Chris

Regards
Chris Forrester
demoreel http://www.chrisforrester.tv

[Chris Forrester]

Please check this follow up post regarding your problem

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1014734

Regards
Chris Forrester
demoreel http://www.chrisforrester.tv

[Don Devine]

I was having a similar problem–I have been working with swf files in After Effects for a long time with no problems, but suddenly they came in as 72×72 black (same as others have reported).

Here is what solved the problem for me:
The swf files that were causing me problems were on an AVID ISIS server. Once I copied the swf to a different drive (any drive…internal HD, Internal RAID, external firewire, etc.–just not the ISIS), then the files imported into After Effects fine.