Re: FLASH: After Effects to Flash

[Geoffrey Roth]

Just to address some of the points/questions which had been raised:


The animation is to be used as a 55 second-long email greeting card,

therefore the 20+ MB download the the AE/QT represents is unacceptable.

(Granted, a concerted effort was never made to optimize the QT for the

internet, as it was known from the start that final delivery would be via

flash). My re-creation of the QT featuring 55 secs. of non-looping music is

about 260k -- much more managable given the target audiance, than even an

optimized QT would be, in my view.


My task was simplified by the fact that the AE/QT producer, while not a

seasoned Flash vet, does have an awareness of the capabilities/limitations

of Flash vs. those of After Effects. Therefore, he understood that some

effects would have to be "reinterpreted" in flash, and that, though every

effort would be made to stay faithful to his original, there would

necessarily be certain visual discrepencies between the two animations.


Let me just say that, though grateful for any and all feedback given my

postings, I was a bit surprised that only one person addressed my actual

question, which was concerned with freelance rates for developing a project

such as the one described above and in my previous two postings as well.

(This is perhaps because my original query had been unclear, or perhaps

because discussing money is taboo -- you tell me). In any case, I'd like to

especially thank you, Brad.


Thanks again to everyone for their input.

Geoff

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From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: After Effects to Flash

>Date: Fri, Mar 19, 1999, 3:25 PM

>


> 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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