Tom Green shows how to easily take an effect created in After Effects and bring it over Flash using the XML format.
If you want to follow long with this tutorial, click here to download the files used in this tutorial.
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Tom is a professor of Interactive Multimedia through the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning's School of Media Studies. Like all faculty in the program, Tom believes his students deserve to be taught by instructors who are regarded as experts in their field and whose knowledge of their subject is current with industry best practice.
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I’m just wondering what the difference is.. BEcause I’ve exported stuff form after effects the normal way.. In fact I followed a tutorial from you about the rain you animated in the picture. Why did that work without the “XLF” ?
“Fomrat?” I’ve been in the digital industry for a few years now & I’ve never heard of this ‘fomrat’ you speak of. Sometimes I type too fast and reverse letters too
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Thanks, Tom. I just added a comment to the “Working with Flash and After Effects” page of After Effects Help to point to this video tutorial.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WSDE67F770-09B6-4f4b-AF9B-9E577311067A.html
Responding to Jimmy: Exporting the composition as an XFL file can make the individual layers in the composition available for independent animation and manipulation in Flash, unlike the old way that required you to render and export a flattened movie without individual layers exposed to Flash.
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Thanks Todd.. Makes sense now
come on.
it never was hard to export movies and sequences for flash. this is a redundant feature. i thought this was going to be interesting tut, but was mistaken.
I haven’t tried this at home but I hope it will reduce the size of the exported ae file when is published through flash. That is the main pain for me, when I am importing ae files into flash they get “heavier” than a normal flash swf file.
how do you do it with audio?
well if does not help me reduce the file size of my swf .. its redundant yeah ..
easily export a movie or image sequence and import in flash .. why go for all this
When I try this method, it says that the resulting .xfl file will be too big for flash to open.
But when change the compression to .flv from .png (which it recommends to do) I get a file that very pixelated. Anyone have this same issue or a solution?
what are the size limitations of the .xfl?
hi
sorry about my english
my problem is that my swf is too big somthing like 3.5 megasame like my fla(from xfl)
i looking for some tutorial that explain if there is somthing special in publising of fla that comes from xfl
Every time I export a comp from after effects as an xfl and try to open it in flash, I get an error that says Flash cannot open the xfl file…I’ve tried everything. What the hell!?
Hi Tom great video. Super helpful. Just wondering if you knew any information on Arduino’s and to make my aftereffects files I have put into Flash interactive with sensors on my Ardunio board?
Cheers LJ
You just saved my life! This also seems to works with CS5 Flash and After Effects, same steps
I tried it with FLV instead of PNG sequence and it worked beautifully. Thank you!
A problem happens when you animate an object starting from outside the work area. Flash doesn’t handle that operation correctly. So once you jump in Flash, your object that was supposed to start outside the box is inside the box and your ”motion” occurs anyway, but starting from inside.
Any help would be appreciated!