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SD2003 Digital Media Workshop 5

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SD2003 Digital Media

Workshop 5: Publishing Options and Compositing

In this tutorial, we are going to use Adobe Flash to publish movie into different

formats. Then, inside Adobe After Effects, arrange different footages together and

render into a composition.

Part A: Generating HTML documents

===== Step 1 =====

Download the FLA files from the course website, load “001.FLA” into Flash. Then

open “Publish Settings…” dialog box. You can choose to publish the FLA content into

different file formats. By default, it will output files in SWF and HTML.

Main Menu > File > Publish Settings…

Go to the “Flash” panel, here you can choose different quality for images and sounds.

There are other settings in related to the file properties. You can read the help

document for more details. Most likely, you will leave it in default values.

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Go to the “HTML” panel, leave the settings by default. Press the “Publish” button.

You will find the SWF and HTML files published in FLA folder.

===== Step 2 =====

Open the HTML file using Notepad. Find the line “<body bgcolor="#ffffff">” and

replace the background color value to “#000000”. Save the file and double click to

view the page in IE. At this moment, you will find the background of the content is

opaque with a clear boundary around the Flash content.

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“Publish”. You will find an EXE file in the project folder. By default, it will be shown

in window mode.

===== Step 2 =====

In some cases, we want the content to be shown in full-screen mode. Now, create anew layer inside the FLA document. In frame 1, add a script inside the Actions

window [F9]:

fscommand("fullscreen", "true");

This will allow you to show your content in full-screen mode. Press ESC to close the

full-screen content.

Part C: Exporting to QuickTime Movie

===== Step 1 =====

Open “simplicity.FLA”, inside “Export Movie…” dialog box, you can choose to

export the movie into different animation formats.

Main Menu > File > Export > Export Movie…

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Choose QuickTime (MOV) as the target type. Choose the “Ignore stage color” in

order to generate alpha channel as transparent background in the movie.

Open “QuickTimeSettings…” dialog box. Click the “Size…” button to pop-up the

“Export Size Settings” dialog box. In the field of “Dimensions”, choose “Current” to

match the export dimension with the FLA document. Confirm the settings and click

“Export” to save as MOV file.

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===== Step 2 =====

Open “sobasic.FLA” file and export the movie into QuickTime (MOV) format.

Part D: Export as Still Image

Open “buttons.FLA”, export

movie as PNG format. Insidethe “Export PNG” dialog box,

choose to export color in “24

bit with alpha channel” in

order to export as transparent

background.

Part E: Composite into Layers

===== Step 1 =====

Start Adobe After Effects. Inside the “Project” window, double click to show “Import

File” dialog box. Choose the footages to import into the project workspace.

background.JPG, buttons.PNG, simplicity.MOV, sobasic.MOV

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Since we have exported

with alpha channel, a dialog

box pop-up to ask how the

alpha channel is interpreted

when it comes to import

MOV files. Choose

“Straight – Unmatted” to

display footages with alpha

channel as transparency

support.

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===== Step 2 =====

Drag the footages into the “Composition” window and arrange them into layer order

as follows.

===== Step 3 =====

Right click the composition

layer in the “Project” window.

Choose “Composition

Settings…” to change the

settings about this composition.

In the “Duration”

field, change the timeto 4 seconds. Set the

“Width” and “Height”

to 800 px and 400 px.

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===== Step 4 =====

Arrange the two MOV footages to the center of the screen. You can do so by first

selecting (single click) the layer inside the “Composition” window. Then move the

footage inside the “Preview” window.

(Note: make sure you are previewing the composition before you move the footage. If

you cannot find your composition preview, double click on the composition inside

“Project” window)

===== Step 5 =====

Inside the “Time Ruler”, click and drag “simplicity.mov” to appear after the

characters of “sobasic.mov” come into places.

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Now, you can drag the “Time Indicator” along the “Time Ruler” to review theanimation.

Part F: Export to Movie

With the composition selected,

add the current composition to

render queue.

Main Menu > Composition >

Add to Render Queue

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Inside the “Render Queue” window, choose “Output Module” to set the export format

as “QuickTime Movie”. Inside “Format Options…” under “Video Output”, choose

MPEG 4 as compressor type.

Inside “Render Queue” window, choose “Output to” option to specify the location of

the output file.

Save the project as AEP.

Main Menu > File > Save As…

Click “Render” button inside “Render Queue” window to start rendering.

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Submission

Zip the following files and submit to the course website:

Part A – SWF and HTML at step 3

Part B – EXE at step 2

Part C – MOV

Part D – PNG

Part F – AEP and MOV

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