[Kurt Murphy]

Thanks Dave, I forgot to mention that I was using the Collapse Transfomations – That’s why i knew that i could scale the physical file size down. But unfortunately, even scaled the file is still huge (meg-wise) and it makes AE CRAWL…

[Kurt Murphy]

I’d Parent them all to one Sphere then, scale THAT sphere… They’ll all scale relatively then…. Hope this helps,

kurt murphy

[Kurt Murphy]

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Ouch. Well, then I vote to try to remake the XFL format as something useful. I can see where Flash would render out Transfer Modes, some 3D, etc., but I use Illustrator files WITHIN Flash all the time. I really thought this might be a great solution to animating in Flash’s clunky interface.

I’ll try Roland’s good advice and convert my files to shape layers (assuming that Flash will translate those)….

thanks,

kurt

[Kurt Murphy]

Thanks Todd, one last question though – I read the ‘rtfm’ but saw no mention of illustrator, .eps, or .ai files. The beauty of this type of file is the small file size. I usually create most of the files for Flash in Illustrator for this reason. I get an ‘unsupported file type’ error when i look at the html file. I slowly found out it was from having the 3D switch on, then continuous rasterization on, then possibly trimmed layer, etc.

Please just let me know, does it not recognize Illustrator files without having to rasterize them (or do i have to save them differently)?

thank you,

kurt

[Kurt Murphy]

Todd,

Thanks for the response… I’m home now so I was able to experiment. I see that Flash doesn’t recognize 3D layers (so I turned them off), AND Continuos Rasterization (so I turned that off). Then I see that it doesn’t recognize ai files (unsupported file type). What DOES it recognize? I can animate in AE MUCH easier than I can in Flash. I want to keep my file sizes small so I don’t want to rasterize any 3D or effects. I was hoping that i could do this…..

thanks,

kurt

[Kurt Murphy]

Thanks for responding Tod… I exported my AE project out as an AFL, but when opened it in Flash, nothing showed up… Either in the timeline nor library. I deleted the null layers, camera, and parents (leaving only illustrator files with keyframes), and still nothing showed up. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

thanks,

kurt murphy

[Kurt Murphy]

I’m afraid that I haven’t worked with Boris; but I’ve used other Boris projects and when there’s a major AE or OS update, the Boris filters don’t update (the EFFECT layer is there, but no keyframes or filter). This happened so many times, that I quit updating Boris.

I’ve used Invigorator since its inception, and it’s been a godsend. I HIGHLY recommend it for logos and more. I also recommend that you get the Invig Pro – This allows you to bring into AE models from other 3D programs…

kurt murphy

[Kurt Murphy]

Ariane,

Try ‘David Photo’ on Niagara Falls Boulevard – They transfer may kinds of media (don’t know about film though); and perhaps ‘Show Productions’ on main in Williamsville. If none of those can do it, then I think you’ll have to make the trek to Toronto. (Dave, thanks for the heads up).

I live in Amherst, so call me at 837-0954 if you think I can be of any help.

kurt murphy

[Kurt Murphy]

Dave,

Thanks again… And it is the same Kurt from the same Buffalo (thanks for the vote of confidence!). I didn’t know that about the codecs (so much for knowing my stuff). When I get info on them, they say Apple Animation (I’m assuming the Animation+ codec because they contain an alpha). When i look at the Render Details it says ‘Preparing’ for stretches at a time, which leaves me to believe that you are correct (I’ve never seen that before). The production house that created these easily could have used AE’s text instead of these massive 3D movies – you barely notice that they’re 3D anyway….

Again, thanks Dave.

kurt (from Buffalo) murphy

[Kurt Murphy]

Go to the great videocopilot.net – Adam has a tutorial on hitting someone with a vehicle and the windshield cracking.

kurt murphy