Hello,
I am having trouble with a 30 second Flash animation for a television commercial. The animation will overlay footage and the production house needs to incorporate my animation using After Effects. I hope someone can help me…
I know next to nothing about After Effects, and the tests I have done on the trial version trying to bring in swf files have been less than encouraging.
The flash file is an actionscript-controlled lip-sync animation with limb and body movements animated in the timeline.
Initially I thought it would be safest to export the movie as a series of PNG files with alpha channels for transparency but the export feature doesn’t seem to animate symbols - only the timeline animations. That is, the lip sync doesn’t play in the sequence.
Next step, try to import the swf file into After Effects. I purchased QuickTime Pro (as after effects said it needed it) and generated the SWF file as version 5 format (Quicktime limitation). The SWF file imported fine but caused 2 problems.
- The SWF became jumbled when any editing or timeline changes were done in After Effects.
- After Effects didn’t use the alpha of the SWF file (there is no background layer in the file, just a colour chosen from the movie properties). I could be doing something wrong in After Effects, as I said I’m very green with that program.
Next step, generate a QuickTime movie from Flash and import that into After Effects. This had exactly the same problems as the SWF file.
Can anyone point me to a tutorial that shows how to bring a flash animation into After Effects effectively or some tips on best practive producing this?
Thanks in advance.
