When I save my flash movie as a quicktime video, the nested animation only displays the first frame of the nested animation.
Is there a setting in flash that I'm missing?
It's on a mac using Flash MX2004
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Hey there guys/gals. I have a very similar problem. At school I was tought to always use movie clips as opposed to graphic simbols and the teacher said that they were just better and u could always put some animation in them if need be. Now Here is my problem. They play fine in a swf but like otheres here when u export them as a quicktime to edit together the project, I ended up loosing all the nested animation.
I had the same problem not to long ago. If you want the movie clips to play you need to publish them as a quicktime movie. It will not work if you export the movie. Check off the quicktime checkbox in the publish settings and then publish it.
Hey there guys/gals. I have a very similar problem. At school I was tought to always use movie clips as opposed to graphic simbols and the teacher said that they were just better and u could always put some animation in them if need be. Now Here is my problem. They play fine in a swf but like otheres here when u export them as a quicktime to edit together the project, I ended up loosing all the nested animation.
Your teacher was right in teaching you to develop for swf or Flash format, but if you want to make your stuff media ready, that's probably not the way to go. Most of the animators selling their stuff to film only use graphic symbols. I've tried it, doesn't work for me, but then I know my media is the web not film.
Thanks Doubloon, unfortunetly i get a "the quick time installed does not support the handlers".... go figure i just don't know what gives with that. I went to the Quicktime site and installed the lastest quicktime thinking that that might fix it but nada. Have any of u guys ever gotten this type of message??
I have always gotten the same message; I figured it was a bug, or my copy of Quicktime just being the regular consumer download one and not Pro. Luckily the software that came with the webcam I got for AnimationMentor converts to MOV just fine. I'm a lucky guy! :cool:
In my experiance, if you export Quicktime from Flash you get a Flash embedded in Quicktime, and even the movie-clips play. What's more you can then import these into Premiare, and export them as what video format you will. It does help to export the sound seperately, though. I find being able to use Movie-clips as well as graphics very usefull.
In general, if you're going to make a quicktime of your Flash movie, all the nested animations need to be graphics (not movie clips).
Although, at Flash Forward San Franscisco last month, one of the speakers mentioned a couple of screen capture programs that might work to some degree (basically you would run your swf with movieclips and the software screen captures that as a quicktime), but the results might not be the best quality, especially for higher frame rates. (unfortunately, I don't recall the specific software packages he talked about).
I found a program that turns SWF to AVIs which -run- in Quicktime, but from there you can turn the AVI to a move and there's no loss in quality. 15 or 30-day trial of it too. If I can get back on tonight I'll send you a link.
Just change the behavior of the movie clip to graphic and set it to "loop" or "play once." Do this for all movie clip instances.
...and next time around make all your symbols graphics, not movie clips.;)
Flash assumes you'll want movie clips, since that symbol type is callable via ActionScript on a web page. But for a linear presentation like a short, Graphic symbols are best.
I worked with a web developer once who was deriding a presentation he was adapting. It was linear, and all the symbols were graphics. He was questioning the skill level of the contractor who created it. I pointed out that graphic symbols were best for this particular project because there was no actionscript driving it and using graphic symbols allowed the developer to scrub the timeline and see all the animation, including the nested symbols. He quickly agreed, realizing he was looking at it from a web developer's point of view rather than envisioning what was best for the presentation.
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Hey there guys/gals. I have a very similar problem. At school I was tought to always use movie clips as opposed to graphic simbols and the teacher said that they were just better and u could always put some animation in them if need be. Now Here is my problem. They play fine in a swf but like otheres here when u export them as a quicktime to edit together the project, I ended up loosing all the nested animation.
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I had the same problem not to long ago. If you want the movie clips to play you need to publish them as a quicktime movie. It will not work if you export the movie. Check off the quicktime checkbox in the publish settings and then publish it.
Your teacher was right in teaching you to develop for swf or Flash format, but if you want to make your stuff media ready, that's probably not the way to go. Most of the animators selling their stuff to film only use graphic symbols. I've tried it, doesn't work for me, but then I know my media is the web not film.
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Thanks Doubloon, unfortunetly i get a "the quick time installed does not support the handlers".... go figure i just don't know what gives with that. I went to the Quicktime site and installed the lastest quicktime thinking that that might fix it but nada. Have any of u guys ever gotten this type of message??
http://lionelordaz.com/
http://lionos.blogspot.com/
I have always gotten the same message; I figured it was a bug, or my copy of Quicktime just being the regular consumer download one and not Pro. Luckily the software that came with the webcam I got for AnimationMentor converts to MOV just fine. I'm a lucky guy! :cool:
In my experiance, if you export Quicktime from Flash you get a Flash embedded in Quicktime, and even the movie-clips play. What's more you can then import these into Premiare, and export them as what video format you will. It does help to export the sound seperately, though. I find being able to use Movie-clips as well as graphics very usefull.
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Are your nested movies graphic symbols or movie clips?
From what I've read this is a problem with all versions of flash, there may be external programs that do swf to quicktime etc.
movie clips versus graphic
In general, if you're going to make a quicktime of your Flash movie, all the nested animations need to be graphics (not movie clips).
Although, at Flash Forward San Franscisco last month, one of the speakers mentioned a couple of screen capture programs that might work to some degree (basically you would run your swf with movieclips and the software screen captures that as a quicktime), but the results might not be the best quality, especially for higher frame rates. (unfortunately, I don't recall the specific software packages he talked about).
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I found a program that turns SWF to AVIs which -run- in Quicktime, but from there you can turn the AVI to a move and there's no loss in quality. 15 or 30-day trial of it too. If I can get back on tonight I'll send you a link.
Just change the behavior of the movie clip to graphic and set it to "loop" or "play once." Do this for all movie clip instances.
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...and next time around make all your symbols graphics, not movie clips.;)
Flash assumes you'll want movie clips, since that symbol type is callable via ActionScript on a web page. But for a linear presentation like a short, Graphic symbols are best.
I worked with a web developer once who was deriding a presentation he was adapting. It was linear, and all the symbols were graphics. He was questioning the skill level of the contractor who created it. I pointed out that graphic symbols were best for this particular project because there was no actionscript driving it and using graphic symbols allowed the developer to scrub the timeline and see all the animation, including the nested symbols. He quickly agreed, realizing he was looking at it from a web developer's point of view rather than envisioning what was best for the presentation.
And that's the end of story hour for today, kids... :D
Tell us another one uncle D!
:D
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
That's -freaky-. I was going to post the exact same thing earlier, even with the same ridiculous name. Great simians think alike?
Well, there was this one time when I was down in Louisiana... ;)