Creating animations in Animate cc for a doc being made in Premiere pro - I'm doing something very wrong

[Rose Thompson]

I've been trying to animate a sound recording using Animate cc. I've been using photos of paper cut outs edited in photo shop ((JPGs) and sound edited in audition(WAV). I imported everything into animate and put together an animation I was relatively happy with. Now I want to export to use it in a sequence of an animated Doc that I am working on. After a bit of trail and error I exported a mp4 of the file - the issue is that the graphics are grainy and pixilated, and I have no sound.

I suspect I may not have set my animation up correctly in the first place - can anyone point me in the direction of good resources on setting up/ exporting Animate cc files for use in premiere pro edited films?

Does anyone else do animated docs who may be able to help me out?

Many thanks

Rose

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[Colin Holgate]

In File/Export/Export Video... there is an option to send the video to Adobe Media Encoder. Uncheck that box. Now you should only get an MOV file (which may be large). Give that file to Premiere.

About the sound, if you're not up to date with Animate, either set the sound sync (In the Properties panel) to be Stream, or move the sound into frame 2 if it's an Event sound.

If your animation is full screen that's enough, but if the animation is to be an overlay you should use the export option Ignore stage color generate alpha. Then it should work as a transparent background video track in Premiere.

[Rose Thompson]

Thanks, this is really helpful.

The back ground is really clear now - I think one of the problems is that I have used a moving symbol which gets smaller and smaller (originally sourced from a photo) - where the symbol is kept large, it doesn't pixilate. The smaller it gets the more ragged the outline so I think I am probably pushing that to shrink too small.

I still have no sound - I have changed the sound sync to stream but this doesn't seem to have done the trick. It is a wav file and the recording is a voice over - I am not sure if this would make any difference?

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

More tips!

There is no reason to use JPEG, you want perfect video going to Premiere. In the library set any bitmaps to be Lossless and to allow smoothing. You can select all of the bitmaps in one go, and click the I button at the bottom of the Library panel to set all of their properties.

Sound that is 24 or 32 bit may have problems. Import WAVs that are 16 bit, and ideally 44.1 kHz.

As with bitmaps you want Premiere to have perfect quality, so go into Publish Settings and select SWF, then in the two settings for audio, set them both to be Raw, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit (stereo if you need stereo).

One last thing, you can tell the stage to be higher quality. Make a new layer and select frame 1. In the Actions panel type this:

stage.quality = "best";

Doing that will improve the overall quality a bit.

[Rose Thompson]

This is great, many thanks. It is 16 bit sound, but I'll need to do some work on the images.

This is all really helpful, Many thanks. It looks like I have plenty of jobs this weekend!

Rose