Flash conversion to vegas

NerffJones wrote on 3/23/2005, 11:59 AM
I have some software I have deveoped in Flash.
The client wanted this software available on a DVD as a Movie.

What is the best way to do this? I would like the quality to be better,
it may be downgraded because of the amount of steps I had to go thru.

This is the process I had to go thru in order to get it to work:
Flash: Published seperate audio and video files in set to output FLASH 4 MOV files (I am not at all satisfied with Vegas 5's ability to import SWF's. Unless they are extremely simple, it breaks the images and text)

For some reason vegas doesn't recognize MOV files published from flash, so I had to render the Video files in Canopus ProCoder first.

Then I imported my video and audio into vegas
Rendered them seperately and put them into DVDArch.




Comments

Birdman wrote on 3/23/2005, 12:32 PM
Is there any reason why you didn't export your Flash movie as an avi?
David Bird
NerffJones wrote on 3/23/2005, 12:36 PM
Just ignorance on how to do that. (publish an AVI from flash)
Birdman wrote on 3/23/2005, 12:44 PM
You're not ignorant...just uninformed :)
After you've completed your Flash movie, save it, then do a FILE, EXPORT MOVIE to whatever folder you're working from. In Vegas, do a FILE, IMPORT MEDIA. There will be a a bunch of different file types....scroll down to "Video for Windows" which has an avi extension. Select your file....it will appear in the Vegas Media Pool. From there you can drag it to the Timeline. The Flash movie that you export as an avi should have the audio attached to it....give that a try...
David
NerffJones wrote on 3/23/2005, 1:01 PM
The problem I am having with Exporting to an AVI is that any embedded movie clips do not show up in the final output.

Birdman wrote on 3/23/2005, 1:19 PM
Hummm.....I think I've run into this issue myself....What exactly are you trying to accomplish with your Flash movie by putting it on a DVD....is the Flash movie a part of a larger project....and are you looking for interactivity from the Flash stuff when you put it on a DVD?

David
NerffJones wrote on 3/23/2005, 1:50 PM
Basically, it started in flash because it was interactive software. There are many different animations, and illustrations that are vector based. I'm simply taking out the interactivity and making it a bit more linear to be viewed on DVD. The problems with it are that there are alot of movies within movies on the timeline. Typical for a flash project. (ex. On one of the characters, The eyeballs which blink, are a movie on the face, which has different expressions, which is a movie on the main timeline etc.)

I already have it working as a DVD, but i was just wondering if there was a better process with less steps, as I will be doing more of this.

Birdman wrote on 3/23/2005, 2:27 PM
For your use, it sounds like you're doing it right...the only suggestion I might make is that you investigate a program called SWISH. It's very similar to Flash, but a lot more intuitive, and LOTS easier to apply effects. The file can be saved in swf format or can be exported as an avi
Regards and good luck - David Bird
Tom Pauncz wrote on 3/23/2005, 5:14 PM
Hmm .. I thought I read in the Vegas 5 help that flash movies that contain 'motion video' are not supported. Could that be it?

While on the subject, if I may...

I do use Swish, SwishMax to be precise and have run into a problem. Lack of experience, I bet.

I have created some very simple animated text. Tried exporting both as .swf and as .avi, and while both work, there is no animation when pulled into Vegas 5.0d.

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks,
Tom

| Actually just figured it out. You need to export Flash format as SWF 4 and not as SWF 5.