Exporting Flash As A Quicktime Movie
Posted on 10 November 2008.
Since the release of Flash CS3, a new feature called QuickTime export was introduced. QuickTime export allows you to export Actionscript driven or timeline animations into a QuickTime movie file. One key advantage of exporting Flash as a QuickTime movie is the ability to playback your heavy animations as fluid as possible with no skipped frames.
Lee Brimelow walks you through the process of exporting ActionScript-based animations into a QuickTime movie and then compositing it within After Effects. In the process of demonstrating this feature, Lee also gives some additional advice with ActionScript-based animations.
i’ve been wondering how to do this! thanks a lot
No Problem! I think many people may have wanted to do this at some point or another.
Thanks a lot! Nice blog
No Problem, Jeffrey.
Yes, thanks a lot! This is very help
No Problem! Stick around there is a lot more to come!
hey man, i have Flash CS4 and i cant export my animation to the quicktime extension.. every time i do this, when i open the .mov file that was created it only shows the first frame!!! im going crazy! what am i doing wrong????
please help me :..(
heheheh 65 seconds = 1 minute 15 seconds??? heheheh!
I had the same problem because I had my entire animation in a movieclip, and then I had just placed the single frame of the movieclip on the main stage. I realized that if you export to quicktime, you need to put as many frames on the main stage as there are in the movie. So, for instance, my movie was 1850 frames, so I put the clip on the main stage and added a frame at frame 1850.
Now I’m trying to figure out haw to make the quicktime movie smaller, because it’s turning a 1mb .swf into a 70mb .mov! If anyone can help with this, let me know. Thanks.
You can use Adobe Media Encoder or any other similar tool to compress the movie down using a enhanced codec. Hope this helps!
Export to Quicktime from Flash is ridiculous as it only allows you to export as flash player v5 or lower.
LoLot – that’s why it’s only exporting the first frame. When you export in v5, bitmaps look like garbage and you can’t include any blending effects. That or what Sara mentioned – you need to have enough frames on the main timeline to accommodate any movieclip instances.
Come on Adobe – get with it – this is terrible.
You can always use the “Stop exporting after time elapsed”. What do you mean “it only allows you to export as Flash Player v5 or lower.”
I have a problem where I have an animation with lipsyncing and sound effects that gets all out of sync when exported to quicktime.
When I preview each individual scene in flash they all play fine. But occasionally when I publish the whole movie to a .swf file certain scenes get messed up. Sounds loop when they are only supposed to play onces, frames get repeated or played at a super fast frame rate.
The same thing seems to happen when I try and export it as a Quicktime file. I’m not sure what to do at this point. It’s really fustrating and I have a deadline fast approaching.
anyone solved this problem yet? I'm having the same problem.
Thanks for the info
I was trying to export to avi, but the actionscript code was not working. This is good solution.
Hi…thnx for the tips for exporting flash file to quick time movie..
we can compress the quick time movie size using compressor(mac)
I’m exporting a QuickTime mov from flash and it’s been about an hour. Is this normal?
Thank you for this! This really really helped.
thanx!
I found that any AS code will mess up the animation export. I had a "stop();" called at the end of the animation. When I deleted the entire code, I found that I could export in no time.
I used CS4 export to MOV settings, no sound, and to stop exporting after last frame was reached. 240 frames long at 30 fps. Completed in a minute and ready in a working .mov file! The flash file was on the desktop, and not a server, and exported back to desktop. No problem finally!!
Thanks all!