Comments on: New tutorial on Flash QuickTime export

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:58:24 +0000

Great Tutorial,

My 25fps animation stuttered, so decided to output as a Quicktime. Unfortunately, as has been pointed out, Flash seems to capture the frames in real time, so if it has a problem rendering them then this problem will also be captured on the Video. ( Way to go Adobe :-/ ).

I tried a different route of slowing my Flash animation down to 5fps, then exporting a Quicktime movie, then saved that as an image sequence, then opened that image sequence in Quicktime as a 25fps video. Unfortunately that didn’t work very well either. (seemed more choppy if anything). Probably because the 5fps movie seemed to show up in the Quicktime inspector as 4.45 fps, so it’s obviously getting confused somehow.

If anyone knows a way of saving a Flash or SWF so it’s not attempted in real time, I’d be really pleased to know.

By: Estevan

Estevan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:50:47 +0000

Why doesn’t the QuickTime export allow non-realtime non-interactive exporting for ultra-complex AS animations? It would be awesome.

By: Export ActionScript-based animations as Quicktime Movie « benediktweiss/blog

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:58:00 +0000

[...] with nested movieclips as mov and never found a solution. Some weeks ago I found a tutorial on gotoandlearn.com which shows exactly what I need. Of course, Flash needs to konw how long the exported movie should [...]

By: Wesley

Wesley — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:26:03 +0000

Yeah this is a cool tut thanks again Lee. We did something like this back in the day (LOL) in 5th grade with a programming language for vector graphics… You got to check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/webturtle/
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/webturtle/webturtle.cgi

It has three has three attributes real easy stuff, loops too(lol) ~ Wes

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:10:15 +0000

Hi Lee,

Keep up these great tutorials. I’ve learned a lot from them!

I had one question about this tutorial. I got a copy of Mathographics which is a great reference, and found the formula for generating Fermat spirals. In this tutorial you mention that the formula for logarithmic scaling is discussed in the book, but I couldn’t find anything about it. Do you know off-hand where it is referenced?

Thanks!

- Scott

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:57:29 +0000

I’ve had trouble with this in the past. The animations I have exported seem to not flow at a consistent FPS. It seems almost as if the animation slowed when my computer became busy with something else (ie: checking email). That leads me to believe flash just basically does a “screen capture” of the animation. The animation slows slightly while my computer is working on something else during the export and thus the animation renders slightly slower until my computer is done with the other process.

Thoughts?

Andrew Christensen | Geek.Blog | http://blog.728media.com

By: lee

lee — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:09:41 +0000

@Youri Ha that is hilarious! I need to learn basic arithmetic I guess.

By: Youri

Youri — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:05:59 +0000

65 seconds is 1 minute and 5 seconds, not 1 minute and 15 seconds. Better read that math book again, Lee

By: Harry Northover

Harry Northover — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:41:09 +0000

Nice one!!

By: Allan Hollenberg

Allan Hollenberg — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:11:56 +0000

Hi Lee,

Nice tutorial.
Now i’m able to export my 3D movies made in flash (not with PaperVision3D but my own 3D engine) to a movie.

P.S.
gotoandlearn.com has an error that the index.php doesn’t exist at 21:11 timezone +1