A question for fellow Flash animators
What do you do when exporting, publishing, or converting your movie to a file format other than SWF? I’m always having problems with this, and currently, my specific problem with it is loss of frames. I can’t export or publish directly to Quicktime from Flash. This has never worked for me. Even though I have the latest version of Quicktime, I get an error message every time I attempt to do it. So what I’ve been doing is using an SWF converter (specifically, Magic SWF2AVI) which can change the SWF to other video formats, including MOV, MPEG, WMV, and of course AVI. No matter what I convert the file to though, it ends up skipping frames throughout the movie. For instance, here is the SWF version of the latest Geoweasel cartoon, and here it is in the converted form on Vimeo.
So what do you guys do? And what framerate do you usually use? (I always use 24 fps) I don’t know if it’s because I’m using Windows and not a Mac, or if that should make any difference, but I’m really searching for the best quality I can get. If you have any suggestions, please add a comment to this post, or send me an email (niko@geoweasel.net). Any help is greatly appreciated!
If you’re on a Windows machine, you cannot export directly to quicktime. They way I do it, is I export to PNG, and then export from After Effects (you have to add the sounds in there).
