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Using Flash with After Effects

Using Flash with After Effects

Adobe Flash is still a very popular animation tool. It's a little challenging to use and so a lot of people are looking at the ease of After Effects and wanting that same ease-of-use in Flash. And lately, they have been updating Flash a lot, so that there are more After Effects features in Flash, but for my money at least it's way easier to animate in After Effects and a lot of people feel the same way. So, there are a lot of great features when you're trying to work with Flash. Number one, if I add this comp to the Render Queue and go to the Output Module, we could change the format to F4V or FLV. FLV is traditionally like the video format associated with Flash. Lately, they have come out with F4V, which is kind of like an updated version of FLV. And because it's more recent and updated, it's not as compatible with as many browsers. So, it's not quite as popular and it's taken a while to catch on, but it is again more optimal. So, you can export to a Flash video from this dropdown…

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