Flash After Effects- P2

Flash After Effects- P2: Flash Designers: Take your projects to the nextlevel with After Effects’ robust toolset. You areabout to take a journey that combines thesetwo powerhouse applications. Enter the worldof Adobe After Effects. Welcome aboard.
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Flash After Effects- P2 Summary Your journey has begun. This chapter introduced you to After Effects. Each of the four exercises discussed the steps it takes to create a typical project. Although Flash and After Effects share a common project workflow, the two applications differ when it comes to animation and visual effects. Throughout the chapter comparisons were made to Flash, its workspace and workflow. These tables summarize the key similarities and differences.Table 1.1: After Effects and Flash Workspace After Effects Workspace Similarities to Flash Differences from Flash Project Panel It is similar to the Library It provides more information in Flash. It displays the about the imported footage imported footage and stores files within the panel itself. compositions. A search feature allows you to quickly locate footage nested within folders. Composition Panel It is similar to the Stage in In addition to magnification, Flash. It is used to compose, there are more controls preview, and edit a project. available. The workspace outside the Comp Window’s image area does not render pixels, only a bounding box. Timeline Panel It shows the structure of You can access individual your project’s composition. Transform properties for a Footage layers are stacked layer. Adjustment layers can in a similar order. Keyframes be added to effect other are displayed over time. layers.Table 1.2: After Effects and Flash Project Workflow After Effects Workflow Similarities to Flash Differences from Flash Creating a Project The project file is similar to Only one project file can be a Flash file. It references open at one time. Flash can imported files and stores the open multiple files at the animation for publishing. same time. Importing Footage Files These imported files are used The files are NOT embedded to compose the project. within the project. Setting Keyframes Interpolation is the same as After Effects interpolates tweening in Flash — filling both space and time. Bezier in the transitional frames handles give you more between two keyframes. control over a motion path. Applying Effects Enhances items on the Stage. After Effects provides hundreds of effects and an unlimited number of ways to combine them. Rendering a Project This is similar to publishing You have more output a file in Flash. options available.36 Chapter 1: Getting Started in After Effects CHAPTER 2 From Flash to After Effects Video production presents technical requirements and limitations that can’t be ignored. This chapter explores the world of broadcast design and offers a basic guide to exporting Flash files to After Effects.2 Flash to Broadcast Video .................................................. 382 Publishing SWF Files for After Effects ............................... 452 Using the QuickTime Exporter ...........................................512 Exporting ActionScript-driven Movies............................... 56 Flash to Broadcast Video Say you have just finished the world’s greatest Flash animation and want to watch it on TV. What do you do? Similar to the Web standards you follow when publishing your Flash file online, there are video standards you need to be aware of when creating a Flash file destined for video. This chapter guides you through these technical issues surrounding broadcast design. These include frame and pixel aspect ratio, fr ...