HELP! Best QT.mov for FLASH?

[SAB0TAGE]

I want to save Flash scenes to QuickTime and put them 2gether in iMovie.
I have Flash8 at home and MX at work. I cant get my Flash 8 toons to save in QT. I can get my MX files to save but they look like crap.

1.How do I get my Flash 8 toons in to QT format?
2.How do I get my MX toons to look better as a QT video.
- There are a few options when i Export video as a QuickTime video
What is the best configuration?

HELP :Xead:

[ElusiveMoose]

Read this (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_to_video.html). It deals primarily with migrating Flash to broadcast, but deals with video export as a consequence.

Good luck...

[pixelmark]

Having the same issues. I'm trying to work through it at my global warming thread. I might try the .avi thing again, had sound troubles before. Let me know what is working for you, Sabotage!

[SAB0TAGE]

I really want the freedom of putting my animations in to some video editing software.

In Flash, I exported movie to QuickTime.mov then dropped it in to iMove. The lines look as though they were done on an etch-o-sketch.

Then I exported movie as AVI and dropped it in Windows Movie Maker. Same crappy look.

What is misleading about imovie is that it looks great in the project. The pixilation seems to come after I share or export or burn to DVD....

With WMM it looks like crop from the start so I didnt invest any time on it.
Im going to try and read through that article *Thanks Moose* and poke around on line.

[ElusiveMoose]

When going to a video editor, your best quality option will almost always be exporting a sequence of hi-res png's from Flash and importing them into your editor. Then mix sound in the editor.

Anything else and you're making a compromise somewhere along the line.

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Curious... You said it looks fine in iMovie, but like garbage when you render it out... Are you looking at a full res preview, or is it smaller? Have you checked to make sure you have anti-aliasing turned on for your render?

Also, check your compression settings in iMovie when you render out. It might be too high....

[SAB0TAGE]

It looks good in the full screen preview of iMovie. If there is any quality loss there I can’t see it. Last night I burned it to DVD. Watched it on the TV and it looked like an old school Nintendo game. I don’t need it perfect but that pixilation really kills the feel of the toon. I checked the compression settings like you said and I got it looking good.
Here are the settings I used:
Ok, I go to ……………………………........……[SHARE]
Then………………………………….......……. [QUICK TIME]
Then select Compress movie for: …………[EXPERT SETTINGS]

These are the settings I get:
Compression: h.264
Quality: High
Key frame rate: 24
Frame reordering: yes
Encoding mode: multi-pass
Dimensions: 720x480

[vicjperry]

Great advice!
Whenever I exported a flash animation as a .mov, the quality was pretty good but the sound was way out of sync. I read somewhere that my framerate (12fps) wasn't compatable with the sound in quicktime. I think 30fps was the best to use, if I remember correctly. Then again, what the hell do I know?

[pixelmark]

Apparently, you knew about the incompatable frame rate! Moviemaker sucks. An improvement is to export avi's from Flash (meaning everything will have to be on the main stage/ no movieclip symbols work) and then open the avi into QT and (using QT pro) export the .mov as a .mov (seems as if you have the sound thing checked the frame rate seems to remain the same). A vast improvement over a wmv file, but I wouldn't watch it on a screen larger than a few inches! Hope this is some help.

[SAB0TAGE]

OK here is a new twist on my Flash vs. QT problems:

At work I am using Flash MX. I click export to QuickTime. I get a video that I can watch and drop in to iMovie.:D

At home I am using Flasg 8. I click export to QuickTime. I get a video that begins with a pop up telling me that Flash is being used and it may not work properly and do I want to [Enable] or [Disable] Flash. Enable lets me view it. Only there are no controls (i.e. play pause) on the bottome of the video and I can not put this .MOV file in iMovie. :Xead:

I think the Amish were dead on when it comes to technology.

[ElusiveMoose]

Curious, do you have a Mac at work and a PC at home?

When you export to QuickTime on a Mac, it converts the swf to a real QT stream. On a PC, when you export to QT, it takes the swf and puts a QT wrapper around it so that the QT Player will be able to play the swf. It may look like a QT video stream, but it's not.

It sounds like CS3 has fixed most of these "features".

[SAB0TAGE]

Thank you

You are very good Moose.
Yes I have a PC at home and a iMac at work.
So it would stand to reason that if I were to email my .swf to my mac and export it to QT I would get the real deal.

Thing is, the PC files are with Flash 8 and the Mac is Flash MX
I have messed around a bit with converting my Flash8 files to FlashMX. I dont think I'll loose anything in the convertion, as they are pretty simple animations w/ out sound.

I'll give that it.

So far I feel the drop in quality with the compression is worth the ability to drop scenes in iMovie. It is very user friendly for a Flash begginer.