SWF export fails at 61% and program crashes

[EstherB2]

So hey everyone! For the last three weeks I  put my heart and soul into animating a DIY video for a schoolproject. The deadline is near and my file won't render. I've tried a lot of things and I read a lot of the same problems here but nothing helped (or I didn't understand the complicated solutions since English is not my first language). I've tried to render my file on different computers in diff versions of the program, but everytime when it's saving to the SWF file the whole program crashes at 61%. I don't get any errors, codes or whatsoever. I've tried breaking up the file into smaller files, I've removed the video that I was rotoscoping and I have removed all of the symbols that I don't use. The file's 49 MB. It really depends on this file because other projects do render so I think something in my file is causing the problem but I don't know how to find it. I would really appreciate any help!

[n. tilcheff · Accepted solution]

Hi mate,

How do you expect help with a broken file if you do not provide your file for inspection?

Anyhow, if you can't get things to work with the SFW/video export, just go to File > Export > Export Movie... 

Choose PNG Sequence and render those PNGs with or without alpha (32-bit or 24-bit), depending on whether you need to composit them over video or not.

Bring them in Premiere and export as video.

Detailed description here, but make the effort and read the whole thread:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate/export-issue-stops-mid-export/td-p/10424361

[EstherB2]

Hey! I am sorry for not providing my file. Lots of the older posts around this issue didn't contain the file either so I thought that if someone wanted to take a look in the first place that I could always send it later.....

Thank you very much for your reply! This method def works (and it's easy to understand if you're familiar with Premiere Pro!!)! It did for me as well, but the program crashed several times during exporting the png's as well so I split up the file and it took a really long time. Meanwhile someone else that I know (a former teacher from school) also took a look at my file. He said that some animate files cause memory leaks (I have no idea what that means tho) what causes the program to crash at certain points. He searched for those points and split up my video for rendering (it was search and crash). Sometimes it was only possible to render 150 frames at once without crashing. Yesterday I tried splitting up my video as well, but just randomly splitting up doesn't work because of the issue. So while I was 2 hours into exporting png's, my teacher rendered my video in diff parts in an hour. 

Still thank you very much, I will def keep this in mind as a solution when I can't export to SWF.

[n. tilcheff]

Hi mate,

I'm really glad you got your animation out of Animate and this crisis is over for you! 

Well done to the former teacher who managed to help!

And thank you for posting about the developments and solution here! Others who find themselves in a similar situation will learn from your experience.

All the best!