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website intro
I’m working on a website and my client has requested an animation intro. At this stage I have already completed the animation (using After Effects) and am now ready to render it in a web friendly format, I believe my best options are SWF or FLV.
Would I export it from After Effects as a SWF and just embed my SWF in the index.html? or do I export it as a full resolution animation file, then use Adobe Media Encoder to convert it to a FLV, followed by importing it in Flash CS4 then embed a preloader so that the animation needs to load 100% before playing?
I’m not 100% sure what is the correct way to go about this…? Any suggestions would be great 🙂
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My method would be to render at full resolution out of AE and then do your compression afterwards. The reason is, often our projects/renders from AE take quite a long time as they start becoming complex, and for web stuff I often find that I want to tweak the compression settings quite a lot to get the optimum quality/size balance.
So if you try and get it right from AE, you will be re-rendering your comp many times. If you render out the full quality one, you can try lots of different settings in your compression/encoder software (i haven’t used Adobe Media Encoder much but it probably works well).
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A SWF file might be a lot smaller as long as you did only animation that’s reproducible with the Flash player.
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