Re: FLASH: After Effects to Flash

[John Dowdell]

At 10:06 AM 3/19/99, Geoffrey Roth wrote:

>I have a client who needs an After Effects animation they produced

>translated into a Flash piece. They have provided me with a completed

>quicktime and a bunch of illustrator files containing most of the elements

>I'll need to start from - so it's basically a matter of importing & putting

>it all together... simple enough.


99 times out of 100, if they have an asset as QuickTime, then they should

deliver it as QuickTime.


Perhaps if you peer beneath the surface, the client might be believing

"Flash will make it small!"? If so, then not necessarily.


The content and the final "look" are both huge, immense variables in

something like this. If a non-Flash designer made an arbitrary animation in

AfterEffects, then they'd likely be better served by a new animation in

Flash than trying to convert the existing content somehow.


I may be reading too deeply into the situation there, but is there anything

that prevents the client from use this existing AE/QT clip as QuickTime in

the web page? And if they want vector artwork, and give you the curves,

then do they realize that the final result may be different than their QT

composition...?



jd




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