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Cannot export a .MOV file anymore

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 22, 2021
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Animate exports a .MOV file but

after an Adobe update, it creates a TMP*.mov file which it automatically takes into Media Encoder.

I don’t want to encode or compress or change the file, I want the original .MOV

It won’t let me save the .mov exported file to a folder anymore.

The TMP version is created in an obscure folder that I can find and I CAN drag it out and rename it but I shouldn’t have to.

The “Start Adobe Encoder Render Queue immediately” box is un-ticked.

Been banging my head on the desk for an hour now trying to get Adobe to do something that used to take only a few minutes.

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thepixelsmith

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Are you on Windows or Mac?

Mario_CR

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To get the 'original' MOV file out of Animate simply use the following preset in the export window:

Format: Quicktime / Preset: Default (Animate)

It will render it without sending it to AME.

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Brian5E8BAuthor

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Thanks for the replies Mario and Keyframer, I'm not sure what I'm doing differently to you both but yes I tried QT and a variety of settings but I always end up in the Media Encoder.

Something's wrong somewhere but...

Perhaps it's time to bite the bullet and learn how to animate in After Effects, which I've been putting off.

It's just that it's so familiar to me because I've used Animate and Macromedia Flash for many years.

Can you do frame by frame animation in AE, I wonder?

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Brian5E8BAuthor

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After Effects isn't commonly used as a FBF animation program. Contrary to what was mentioned previously, it does have drawing tools, but they are rudimentary compared to Animate, Illustrator and Photoshop.

There is however a plugin called Pain & Stick that does a pretty good job of addressing that weakness - https://aescripts.com/paint-and-stick/

That’s very kind of you, thanks. I rarely draw directly in Animate (unless something’s gone wrong) – I use it mainly for timing movements in my animations I’ve prepared in Photoshop.

The thing about Adobe I have learned is to move on once you've hit a wall, for example the CAMERA tool is now ghosted in Animate, another example is that the ROTATE tool in PS no longer functions. Both of these were very useful but dead since the software update. There've been a few gremlins that I've tried to solve using the advice here and elsewhere.

_keyframer

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What does your export settings from Animate look like? Are you choosing Quicktime?

Animator and content creator for Animate CC

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