So I recently finished an animation for college...

iPodClock · May 17, 2009, 11:20:34 AM

Quote from: Biblo;1581041change each movie clip to a graphic
copy & paste into a new flash file
should werk

I don't need to do it now, it's basically done.

Safe___Clock · May 17, 2009, 11:21:03 AM

^_^ cool animetion

AstronautClock · May 17, 2009, 11:35:47 AM

hahaha

DWARFINATORclock · May 17, 2009, 12:08:30 PM

this is all on you

LuxenbergClock · May 17, 2009, 12:44:43 PM

and now i know

Sheep · May 17, 2009, 12:51:17 PM

and knowing is half the battle.

Dino Clock · May 17, 2009, 01:02:24 PM

Quote from: Sheepy;1581107and knowing is half the battle.

Whats the other half?

LuxenbergClock · May 17, 2009, 01:06:36 PM

cold blooded killing

Sinister Clock · May 17, 2009, 03:24:50 PM

I don't know why you would ever need to use the graphic type. It's shit, maybe if it didn't restart every keyframe and you could apply filters to it, it would be immensely useful, but elseways, it sucks.

Biblo · May 17, 2009, 03:52:11 PM

Quote from: Sinister;1581211I don't know why you would ever need to use the graphic type. It's shit, maybe if it didn't restart every keyframe and you could apply filters to it, it would be immensely useful, but elseways, it sucks.

for anything outside of direct swf embedding, the movie clip is entirely useless. so, any sort of television animation, tv advertising, animated gifs, film animation. basically half of all flash usage, movie clip is utter crap.

and the graphic only restarts on every keyframe if you change the amount of frames within it after you've given it keyframes on the main timeline. it can always be fixed by changing the start frame on each keyframe anyway

Poltergeist · May 17, 2009, 03:53:54 PM

The "graphic" thing actually does something? I thought it was just filler.

Sinister Clock · May 17, 2009, 03:57:43 PM

Quote from: Biblo;1581255for anything outside of direct swf embedding, the movie clip is entirely useless. so, any sort of television animation, tv advertising, animated gifs, film animation. basically half of all flash usage, movie clip is utter crap.

and the graphic only restarts on every keyframe if you change the amount of frames within it after you've given it keyframes on the main timeline. it can always be fixed by changing the start frame on each keyframe anyway

You can convert swfs with animated movie clips into video files by recording the swf with camtasia or something or using swf to video things though I don't see why adobe hasn't made an official exporter/converter which exports movieclips correctly.

SeedClock · May 17, 2009, 04:02:52 PM

how many movies did you make

i only made a few and thats why im still not good

TremcladClock · May 17, 2009, 04:40:24 PM

Quote from: Sinister;1581263You can convert swfs with animated movie clips into video files by recording the swf with camtasia or something or using swf to video things though I don't see why adobe hasn't made an official exporter/converter which exports movieclips correctly.

File > Export .AVI

Why would you dick around with third-party software or even consider using movieclips for anything in an animation that doesn't involve filters or AS?

Biblo · May 17, 2009, 04:53:39 PM

no no no no

3rd party converters are just lowering quality. and exporting into avi straight from flash is bad news too, it's not really built for it. the norm is exporting as an image sequence and importing that into an editing suite. get's the highest quality for each frame

Sinister Clock · May 17, 2009, 04:55:34 PM

Quote from: Erich Honecker;1581287File > Export .AVI

Why would you dick around with third-party software or even consider using movieclips for anything in an animation that doesn't involve filters or AS?

Because it makes everything so easy. The third party software isn't that bad, just set it going for a bit and come back and everything's fine! Also I was insinuating that exporting .avi directly from flash is a bit gay with not animating movieclips.

Let me use an example:
I want to make a walking man glow. The man is animated on multiple layers using a mixture of tweens and frame by frame and shit. I could:
A) Convert every frame to a key frame, thus making it a lot harder to change later on, then everything in each frame into a movie clip and manually make the glow incrementally increase in each frame, making sure to spend lots and lots of hours to get it all smoothed and eased out right.
Or I could:
B) Dump it all into a movieclip and tween that shit in 5 seconds.

Biblo · May 17, 2009, 05:13:32 PM

Quote from: Sinister;1581292Because it makes everything so easy. The third party software isn't that bad, just set it going for a bit and come back and everything's fine! Also I was insinuating that exporting .avi directly from flash is a bit gay with not animating movieclips.

Let me use an example:
I want to make a walking man glow. The man is animated on multiple layers using a mixture of tweens and frame by frame and shit. I could:
A) Convert every frame to a key frame, thus making it a lot harder to change later on, then everything in each frame into a movie clip and manually make the glow incrementally increase in each frame, making sure to spend lots and lots of hours to get it all smoothed and eased out right.
Or I could:
B) Dump it all into a movieclip and tween that shit in 5 seconds.

or, use After Effects for the glow. as flash filters are only really a lame after thought thrown in to try and make it seem more "Adobe" when they bought out Macromedia. Unless you're embedding the actual swf somewhere online, this is how it's best done

DigitalLemonClock · May 17, 2009, 06:43:34 PM

they're just tools guys

use whichever, who cares

iPodClock · May 17, 2009, 06:44:01 PM

YOU GUYS

peyoteclock · May 17, 2009, 08:54:18 PM

dude you didn't know what a graphic is, what the fuck is wrong with you lol

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