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rwatt451
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February 11, 2013
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Exporting animations containing nested movieclip symbols to .avi or .mov video formats?

  • February 11, 2013
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Hello, this is my first post here, I've searched around on a lot of old forums on this topic and most of the information relevant to it seems really outdated.

I have an animation workflow that involves utilizing a lot of nested movieclip symbols to achieve relatively complex animtions.  Ideally I'd like to be able to export my finished product into .avi or .mov for further tweaking in Premiere or Final Cut, but so far I haven't been able to get these options to work the way I need them to.

Exporting to .avi gives me a simplyfied version of my animation where none of the nested symbols play through.

I've read that if you export to QuickTime it may work the way I'd like; however, I'm running Windows and apparently you need QuickTime installed a certain way for this option to work.  I installed the free version of QuickTime 7 in hopes that would solve the exporting problem, but it hasn't.  I still receive the error message, "QuickTime is not available. Please make sure QuickTime is properly installed".  I feel like if I could get this working a lot of my problems would be solved.

Other options I know about are...

1. Using a high quality screen capture application to record the .swf playing in Adobe...

2. Finding some sort of conversion software that will convert my .swf file to an .avi or .mov.

So does anybody know how to fix the QuickTime issue?  If not, any suggestions for the two types of software listed above?

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Correct answer jimizt

Switching the movie clips to "Graphic Symbols" instead of movie clips works if you want to export to .avi. This can simply be done in the properties panel. It might be a hassle to switch a lot of movie clips to graphic symbols but it works if you can get away with it.

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jimiztCorrect answer
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May 21, 2014

Switching the movie clips to "Graphic Symbols" instead of movie clips works if you want to export to .avi. This can simply be done in the properties panel. It might be a hassle to switch a lot of movie clips to graphic symbols but it works if you can get away with it.

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onury86672507
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December 23, 2016

you saved my day

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undefine
Participant
September 1, 2013

One very simple answer: Swivel

It's created by Newgrounds and seems to work very well in converting 1080p SWF to MP4. Oh, and its free.

http://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/creator-resources/flash-resources/swivel

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    rwatt451Author
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    February 13, 2013

    The best application I've found as far as converting .swf files into various video formats (.mp4 .avi .mov etc.)  is called Moyea SWF to Video Converter (it costs about $100). There's a free trial so you can see if it suits your needs; although, it does throw a Moyea watermark over the converted video.  It works quite well as far as I can tell and you don't get the frame dropping problem most people see when exporting to QuickTime.

    All the other  free software out there seemed to simply not work when I attempted opening my .swf files, possibly because I'm using CS6 and these converting programs are all pretty old.

    I haven't tried the screen capture route; but from what I've read, the screen recording software is more expensive than the converting software.

    I'm still open to trying out the exporting to QuickTime option if anyone has any advice on how to make this work with Windows (as far as properly installing QuickTime).

    Anything helps!  Thank you.

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    moccamaximum
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    February 14, 2013

    In this Video Lee Brimelow describes how this Actionscript>Quicktime conversion works, and at Minute 8 of the video which exxport settings are best suited. As for the problem why Quicktime would not work on your machine, you should consider consulting a Quicktime forum. I`m sure there is sth like a Quicktime cleanup tool, that will get rid of a damaged installation.

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