Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
Karl DeSaulniers skriver: Oh and any Movieclips you have that play content inside them, move their content to a new layer on the main timeline. Unless you need them to be scripted. Like perhaps it's a particle effect. Or even worse, a virtual camera. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] what is realaxy video
Hello flashcoders, short video about Object Builder language in RASE: http://johnlindquist.com/2010/10/23/what-is-realaxy/ -- Ivan Dembicki http://realaxy.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
Thank you for your advice. But I did not understand what you mean: Export a MOV file using the Animation Codec with the highest settings first. I can not export move file from Flash. I said this function does not work. How did you do export from Flash with best and largest settings? 2010/10/24 Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com: I have had very good success. Export a MOV file using the Animation Codec with the highest settings first. Here you want to set things to Best and Largest sizes. Your not going to be keeping this copy necessarily. Then open that movie in Quicktime and export to your desired settings for what ever your wanting the video for. Oh and any Movieclips you have that play content inside them, move their content to a new layer on the main timeline. HTH, Best On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:48 PM, natalia Vikhtinskaya wrote: Yes, I googled. Can somebody recommend really good tool? 2010/10/23 Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net: I would rather use a dedicated tool. Googling swf to video should find most of them. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to Powerpoint
Use VB, and embed the control, have the control load your swf, have your swf load the data. Did it years ago and it worked fine. On 10/22/2010 11:47 AM, Lehr, Theodore wrote: I want to do it dynamically... the data in the movieclips will be changing From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Mynarcik [nat...@mynarcik.com] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 11:36 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to Powerpoint You could always go the oldschool route of taking screenshots and pasting on the slide(s). On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Lehr, Theodore ted_l...@federal.dell.comwrote: Anyone have a link to a tutorial or something that gives siome guidance on how to create a powerpoint presentation from Flash - like I want to click a button and then be given a prompt to open or save a pps - and the presentation would be made up of, say, an image (object) on each slide No - I have not googled yet but I will :-) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
Hi Natalia, Sure, its simple. Go to file menu, select export, select QuickTime in the drop-down menu, navigate to the folder you want to save everything to, hit save, a dialog box will pop up, on it there should be a QuickTime Settings button - select it, Once you have gotten this far, now you must start thinking of how you want things exported. If your flash movie is just regular animations as in timeline animations, you can select stop export when last frame is reached or if your flash movie has script and other animations inside movieclips not on the main timeline, you can stop exporting after a certain time has elapsed. this option is a little tricky and you may have to export multiple times to get the desired results. trial and error on that. I think this option is what will help in a situation like what Henrik was suggesting could happen. Flash has trouble exporting scripts because they can extend past the main timeline, but if you stop export after a certain time elapsed it exports the movie more like a recording than an export. My advice is to take the script effects and remake them (to the best of your ability) as an actual animation. If you can not do that, then you would probably need a screen recorder to capture the action and then place it in your fla. But back tot he export. Once you have chosen the way you want to export, and you've clicked the QuickTime Settings button, in that dialog box you will see a Video Sound and Prepare for internet streaming. the first one is where you will find the Animation Codec. Make sure the Video check box is selected and then choose the Settings button. Under the drop-down menu, select Animation (This is the Animation Codec) then you will have some settings that will show, like a Motion and Data Rate and Compressor. Here is where you set things to the highest. Set the frame rate to current (the rate you made your flash file) or 30 fps (usually best for real motion) Data Rate Should be grayed out so don't worry about that, if it isn't, set it to automatic the first round, and then Compressor should be set to Millions of Colors+ or what ever is the highest in your drop-down, or just drag the slider all the way to the right if your slider is not grayed out. Press ok. Go to the Sound check box, enable it if you have sound, don't if you don't. :) Here set your audio to the least compressed. Compressor : none Rate: 48.000 Size: 16 bit Use: Stereo then choose your stream type. I usually use Fast start with compressed head (I believe this improves the loading of the video when served from the internet and deals with the buffer, but don't quote me on it) Now when exporting this movie, know that it will take a long time if you have a large movie. Especially if your using scripts and embedded movies with animation and your timing the export. So view and time your movie as a swf first to get a general idea of how long it will take. Literally, get a stopwatch and time it. record how long it takes for it to play with all the scripts and animations doing their thing. Take this time and put it in the box for export stop with elapsed time. the format is kind of weird. Ever looked up in the corder of your video recorder and saw those strings of numbers usually looked like 00:01:35:24. Well that string I just typed says the track is 1 min 35 sec 24 mill- sec. You will need to set the time you got in this format for that export option to work properly. Once you have the file exported, then go open it with QuickTime and export that file to the size and settings you need for displaying on the internet File menu - Select Export or maybe in your case Export for web. NOTE: Do not over write the export you made from flash. Keep it on the side as you may have to try several times to get your perfect file for the internet. This file will have all the detail in it at a clean and clear resolution and sound and can always be compressed down. (I make a duplicate of this and edit that one just to be safe) There are some situations where an persons flash file has code or certain ways animations are made that just don't translate, so this is not the most perfect of solutions, but like I said when I started this. I have had much success. HTH, Best, Karl On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:17 AM, natalia Vikhtinskaya wrote: Thank you for your advice. But I did not understand what you mean: Export a MOV file using the Animation Codec with the highest settings first. I can not export move file from Flash. I said this function does not work. How did you do export from Flash with best and largest settings? 2010/10/24 Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com: I have had very good success. Export a MOV file using the Animation Codec with the highest settings first. Here you want to set things to Best and Largest sizes. Your not going to be keeping this copy necessarily. Then open that movie in Quicktime
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
On 10/23/10 11:34 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: The built in exporter is crap and doesn't deal with actionscript. You might get better luck with a 3rdparty solution. I don't think that's true. But it will only export a move as long as your main timeline - the solution is usually to make a second fla and make the main timeline as long as you want your exported movie to be (or a couple of frames longer even) then load your swf into that, and run the exporter. I like to export to uncompressed quicktime, or use lossless compression. It will actually run your swf, and capture each frame. Kevin N. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
@Henrik One possible solution for the script problem is to take the frame that the MC which has that script in it and extend that MCs frame to the same length as how long it would take to execute. Even if there is only one frame inside that MC. The export reads the main timeline and if you have a MC that sits on one frame, extend that frame to the execute time length in frames and it will give the main timeline export the room to record your script working/ executing. Then just move frames that would come after that effect/script to the appropriate spot on the timeline considering this adjustment. Your main timeline will be super long, but It should export your particle effect. I think also, you have to export as animation to execute any scripts you have in your fla. This is just a theory and I have not tested, but if you try, let me know if it works or not. Best, Karl On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Hi Natalia, Sure, its simple. Go to file menu, select export, select QuickTime in the drop-down menu, navigate to the folder you want to save everything to, hit save, a dialog box will pop up, on it there should be a QuickTime Settings button - select it, Once you have gotten this far, now you must start thinking of how you want things exported. If your flash movie is just regular animations as in timeline animations, you can select stop export when last frame is reached or if your flash movie has script and other animations inside movieclips not on the main timeline, you can stop exporting after a certain time has elapsed. this option is a little tricky and you may have to export multiple times to get the desired results. trial and error on that. I think this option is what will help in a situation like what Henrik was suggesting could happen. Flash has trouble exporting scripts because they can extend past the main timeline, but if you stop export after a certain time elapsed it exports the movie more like a recording than an export. My advice is to take the script effects and remake them (to the best of your ability) as an actual animation. If you can not do that, then you would probably need a screen recorder to capture the action and then place it in your fla. But back tot he export. Once you have chosen the way you want to export, and you've clicked the QuickTime Settings button, in that dialog box you will see a Video Sound and Prepare for internet streaming. the first one is where you will find the Animation Codec. Make sure the Video check box is selected and then choose the Settings button. Under the drop-down menu, select Animation (This is the Animation Codec) then you will have some settings that will show, like a Motion and Data Rate and Compressor. Here is where you set things to the highest. Set the frame rate to current (the rate you made your flash file) or 30 fps (usually best for real motion) Data Rate Should be grayed out so don't worry about that, if it isn't, set it to automatic the first round, and then Compressor should be set to Millions of Colors+ or what ever is the highest in your drop-down, or just drag the slider all the way to the right if your slider is not grayed out. Press ok. Go to the Sound check box, enable it if you have sound, don't if you don't. :) Here set your audio to the least compressed. Compressor : none Rate: 48.000 Size: 16 bit Use: Stereo then choose your stream type. I usually use Fast start with compressed head (I believe this improves the loading of the video when served from the internet and deals with the buffer, but don't quote me on it) Now when exporting this movie, know that it will take a long time if you have a large movie. Especially if your using scripts and embedded movies with animation and your timing the export. So view and time your movie as a swf first to get a general idea of how long it will take. Literally, get a stopwatch and time it. record how long it takes for it to play with all the scripts and animations doing their thing. Take this time and put it in the box for export stop with elapsed time. the format is kind of weird. Ever looked up in the corder of your video recorder and saw those strings of numbers usually looked like 00:01:35:24. Well that string I just typed says the track is 1 min 35 sec 24 mill-sec. You will need to set the time you got in this format for that export option to work properly. Once you have the file exported, then go open it with QuickTime and export that file to the size and settings you need for displaying on the internet File menu - Select Export or maybe in your case Export for web. NOTE: Do not over write the export you made from flash. Keep it on the side as you may have to try several times to get your perfect file for the internet. This file will have all the detail in it at a clean and clear resolution and sound and can always be compressed down. (I make a
