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How to export just a couple of frames?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
July 24, 2024
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When I'm exporting frames from Animate (usu. a PNG sequence from export video/media), if I'm exporting 10 or more frames, it actually renders the frame range I export in the settings. If I'm only rendering one or two frames, it instead renders an entire 150-frame sequence (a lot of duplicated frames) even when there are only two frames in the scene. Is there a way to get it to behave, or do I just need to plan on deleting 148 files every time I render?

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JoãoCésar17023019

Community Expert

Hi.

I think that's a bug. Or I don't know how to use Export Video/Media... dialog correctly. Haha

If it is, please let the Animate team know about this bug through this link:
https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Anyway, I suggest you to use Export Movie... and choose PNG sequence instead.

Regards,

JC

Mario_CR

Community Expert

Yep Export Movie > PNG Sequence is the way.

The problem of doing a sequence with Media Encoder is that Animate has to create an MOV video first to send to AME and having just 2 frames on a 12fps sequence means that each frame is half of a full frame on video so perhaps that causes issues with the format or whatever script Animate is sending to AME.

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oskarmatzerathAuthor

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That's what I was looking for. A million ways to half-do a thing. The exporting end of Animate has all the elegance of Acrobat.

Thanks!

kglad

Community Expert

create a new fla

from the old fla, copy the few frames you want to export

paste those frames into the new fla

export

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oskarmatzerathAuthor

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I think you misunderstand--copying two frames (from a two-frame sequence) from one file to another will just be recreating the problem with a different file name. It will still be exporting 150 frames even if I specify a two-frame frame range.

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oskarmatzerathAuthor

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that's impossible.

upload a problematic 2 frame fla to a file server and post a link here.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wb5mj594nlnpsv4a79h66/export_oddness.zip?rlkey=cr0m6jtpb2zv55e8n46k257h1&dl=0

Brand new project. Two frames. Very simple. Either exporting frames 1 and 2 by frame range in the scene, or exporting the entire movie, it exports 150 frames. This is what it does for literally every project, so I'm assuming there's just a non-intuitive way that short .png sequences should be exported (that's not export video/media).

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