Converting Flash to Quicktime

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Converting Flash to Quicktime

I have had a look around the forums but i am still not completley clear on this:
I have an animation made on Flash MX 2004 saved as a .swf file that opens in Flash Player, do i need a previous version of Flash to turn my animation in Quicktime?, How do i do it

Or if there is an easier format to export into can someone tell me

Also, does anyone know how to make a Flash .swf into a moving avatar

Thanks, G

MacBookPro, 1.83 GHz, 1GB SDDRAM, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Jul 26, 2006 6:01 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 26, 2006 6:53 AM in response to pumpkin person

Not sure what a moving avatar is, unless you want an animated gif? To get that, or to get the QuickTime version, just export the animation from Flash authoring.

If the swf is just time line animation, and is saved as an older Flash format (Flash 5 for example), you can open it in QuickTime Player and export to a normal QuickTime movie there, though you might lose the audio. If the animation is partly Actionscript, or to make sure you keep the sound, you could use a scren recorder such as Snapz Pro X v2.

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Answer 2

Jul 26, 2006 7:22 AM in response to pumpkin person

Follow Colin's advice for the answer.
Easiest method is to open your Flash project and "Publish" it to QuickTime using the Flash 5 format. This file can be opened with QuickTime. QuickTime Pro would allow you to save as which would put your Flash file into a .mov container. It would just be a .swf inside a .mov file and would retain audio and mouse actions.
To convert to .gif (animated) would require you export from QuickTime Pro to Image Sequence and then assemble these frames using a GIF builder app like Image Ready or GIFBuilder.

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Answer 3

Jul 26, 2006 11:47 AM in response to QuickTimeKirk

You'll need the original FLA to publish. You can publish right out of flash to a Quicktime movie. Dropping the step of publishing to a flash version 5.

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Answer 4

Jul 26, 2006 1:02 PM in response to David M Brewer

I just exported it to Quicktime and it took up 30GB on my computer, this is just a 2min animation i did!!!

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Answer 5

Jul 26, 2006 1:17 PM in response to pumpkin person

ok so i exported it to a quicktime file of a decent size, then i converted it to an image sequence and now there are hundreds of .png pictures on my desktop and my Finder software has completley frozen up - i can use other software et... but i cant open files, open a finder window, i cant even restart it
Thanks for the help, G

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Answer 6

Gavino

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Jul 26, 2006 3:58 PM in response to pumpkin person

Hi, I've kind of got a similar problem. When I want to export some Flash animation as a quicktime for a client to see, for some reason he cant download it. When I make an quicktime movie on my screen, it plays fine. When I email it to him it doesnt work. I have Flash MX, the latest quicktime download (7.1.2) What am I doing wrong?

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