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Web Project
Im doing my first ever web animation of a logo for the top of the webpage. The web designer said that all I need to do is make the animation just like I would for video except change the frame rate to 15fps and export as SWF.
Anybody have any experience with this or tips before I start this new journey?
Thanks!
Eric Sampson
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6 Replies
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I don’t do that very often, but you should know that a lot of features of AE won’t survive the SWF export process. Check the AE help for “SWF”.
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It seems unwise to export it as an SWF – either it will only increase file size unnecessarily because AE will “bake” all its stuff to pixel data even if it’s vector based or you will loose many features. in a way it’s a loose-loose situation. A much better way would be to provide your web guy with a standard video clip or a FLV file, with the first option being perhaps the better since he then could do the FLV encoding himself and tweak settings for optimum performance.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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you can also render out as a png file or jpeg depending on whether or not you need transparancy. go to shaveplatypus and do a search on swf and ae. i did this a bunch on
and http://www.velocityouth.com
any time you need help let me know
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Thanks Everyone!
side question Davey….how did you do that light glowing effect on your velocityouth website that plays over the photomontage?
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its just a background that comes with ae 7.0.
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I’ve had really good results and small file sizes by exporting a jpeg sequence of a logo into a folder and importing the files via the “import folder as frames” option into imageready – then exporting an animated gif compressed the way you need it. Works great every time. You could also import the individual frames into flash and have more control over the flv/swf encoding process as needed.
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