FLASH 2 QUICKTIME: This time it's sucktacular

What more exciting way is there to kick off the new year than with a wretched tech question?

So I'm currently trying to export an fla. as a quicktime movie from CS3, it's for a comission and i have to hand it over in the .mov format...

Here's the thing, the swf plays back fine at 25fps (more or less) despite the multiple effects being used, but the quicktime movie of that same file has massive frame rate drop in the graphics intense bits. I can't export to avi as movie clips refuse to play back in avi at all...

I imagine other people have encountered this problem and not just me, I'd love to know how you might have tackled it. The toon will end up on NG as a gloriously crisp swf so no worries there, but I can't hand over this choppy crapfest and expect to get payed!. Any ideas?

Also, here's a drawing to make shit less boring...

Harry New year

Love Happy

FLASH 2 QUICKTIME: This time it's sucktacular

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Oney 2009-01-01 19:52:23

I don't know

Wonchop 2009-01-01 20:08:21

Only thing I could reccomend is to try and keep cpu usage low whilst exporting (ie. closing ram-sucking programs like Photoshop or keeping browsers off of Youtube.)
You could try asking <a href="<a href="http://mrsimon.newgrounds.com">http://mrsimon.newgrounds.com</a>">MrSimon</a>. He managed to turn one of my movieclip infested swfs into a decent video using some sort of program.

BoMToons 2009-01-01 20:11:45

I'd reccomend swf2avi then you can convert that into .mov using premier or other video editing software.

I've used swf2avi and had great results, it captures effects, nested animations, etc etc.

I think it can be bought for around 30 bucks.

HappyHarry 2009-01-01 20:11:45

It'd be better if I didn't have to shell out for another program to do what flash should be able to do in the first place...but I might have to, thanks.

Starogre 2009-01-01 20:12:28

sorry, love to help but i'd like to know too if anyone else knows, just in case this happens to me too....

does that pig have pink pubes? he reminds me of ganon from link to the past

Fautzo 2009-01-01 20:13:02

I've had that problem too, it also happens with animated GIFs.

beast-unleashed 2009-01-01 20:23:40

record with "Camtasia studios". make sure you edit it to record at 30 fps (dont worry it will be fine like that). i say this because it record in very HIGH quality, no frame skip and it can record sound.

mmankt 2009-01-01 20:30:26

moyea swf to video , flashants swf2video, both of em work great i used them to export my movies and they run much better then in flash.

rtil 2009-01-01 20:38:59

don't use moyea unless you have a good machine - it's a screen-capture based software so if it frameskips at all those will show up

magic swf2avi is the best program i've found for exporting swf to video

i don't think it's ever let me down. no it is not free but if you're down with the pirates they can hook you up

HappyHarry 2009-01-01 20:38:59 (Updated 2009-01-01 21:16:37)

I tried Moyea first as someone else suggested it, and there was frameskip, making it pretty useless.

I'm trying swf2avi now, is this thing supposed to have a progress bar as it converts or am I stuck waiting?

SkyBullet 2009-01-01 20:46:15

I got no idea :(

Mattster 2009-01-01 21:04:13

My suggestion is download hypercam, it will have a trial thing at the top, so extend it's area just above your flash. Put the movie in After Effects or Movie Maker and crop out the 'unregistered icon', then export it from there.

That's what I do in situations like that :P

zappawadda 2009-01-01 21:32:15

Do you have a Mac or PC?

I've heard if you've got a Mac you can use the newer version of Garageband to import a swf file, and because its used for soundtracks, you can export it as a mov with your audio track.

On a PC i found the best results using the Moyea swf-mov converter, but I only used the trial version.

Good luck, and your movies are badass.

HappyHarry 2009-01-01 21:32:15

PC, I've given Moyea a shot but there's still frameskip unfortunately.

Thanks tho :)

omegared 2009-01-01 21:38:28

I don't know but good luck man!

wanahakaluga 2009-01-01 21:49:28

u may have won the battle but u wont win the war

Koalafish 2009-01-01 22:44:18

I THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW THAT I DON'T KNOW A SOLUTION

SpikeVallentine 2009-01-01 23:19:55

DAM. FLASH DRAMA.
I've had stuipd stupid problems like that before.

Super if anything...grab a camera...and film it from screen to camera, then digitize. It would help if comp has LCD screen, the results is pretty decent, then maybe tackle it with color correction.

Shelling out on other programs might be a solution too.

SpikeVallentine 2009-01-01 23:21:14

or if anything...............export as avi....and improvise your way out of the movie clips, change the movie clips to graphic clips instead maybe? This stuff makes me go crazy, so I hope you stay sane!

John-The-Biter 2009-01-02 00:06:44

Is that picture part of the Playboy video your making?

RubberNinja 2009-01-02 00:16:12

Flash can't do it for shit, you need to use swf2avi. I have been for years now.

CountLessFilms 2009-01-02 00:28:14

Flash cs3 and quicktime just dont mix. i remember everytime i exported flash movies into quicktime using flash 8 and they would work perfectly, but with cs3 its not the same.
ive been trying to fix this problem myself.
But what you could do is get a screen recording program and just use that.
ive used some pretty good ones and the quality came out perfect (same as the frame etc)
hope that helps.

Alienslushie 2009-01-02 03:20:41

How do u make a fla. file into an swf?

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