Flash exporting

Hey fellow Flash enthusiasts,

I've been trying to experiment with exporting .mov settings on Flash and havent had much success. The versions that look relatively good are rediculously huge files and the ones that are reasonably small sized look rather awful. I know decent quicktimes are doomed to be large files, but I was wondering if anyone could suggest quicktime settings that seem to have a good balance.

Oh, and this includes settings for sound. There are a lot of compression choices for sound, but I know nothing about them. Any suggestions?

Tags: export, flash, quicktime, settings

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Permalink Reply by Stephen M. Levinson on May 19, 2008 at 7:01pm: Try h.264 (or whatever the number is) I've always had great success with that. Also try 44khz 16.

If you're on a mac and have Final Cut, it comes with a great program called Compress that can take 10 mb file and turn it into 800kbs with the same quality.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Temris on May 19, 2008 at 10:38pm: Cool, thanks.

And I'm on a PC and I have Premiere Pro, not Final Cut. But if Final Cut has such a feature, Premiere probably would too, wouldn't it?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stephen M. Levinson on May 21, 2008 at 5:56pm: I know After Effects has an amazing compressor too; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Temris on May 21, 2008 at 7:05pm: Ah, I have After Effects, but I hardly know how to use it. I should start playing with that program more. : ); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dan on July 3, 2008 at 5:18am: This is off the topic of exporting, but as long as After Effects has been mentioned, I'd like to make an interjection... is it normal to have audio files in an AE project library and then find that they're inaudible after placing them in a timeline?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anthony on May 31, 2008 at 12:40pm: I can't even get my files to export as .mov without getting a pop-up about changing the settings in the flash tab to flash 5. And the one time I finally got it to work, I was unable to get any sound. So I uaually just go to test movie and record it as it plays with a video capture program.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stephen M. Levinson on June 1, 2008 at 9:38pm: I think I know what you're doing wrong. You're publishing your .mov, not exporting. In Flash go to file>export NOT file>publish...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anthony on June 5, 2008 at 6:24am: And there enlies my problem. I never knew there was much of a difference between exporting and publishing. Thanks!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kyoshi on May 31, 2008 at 8:16pm: Mpeg 4 works 10 rimes better than H.264 (no offense Stephen) Also Get AE if you can.. more options; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stephen M. Levinson on June 1, 2008 at 9:37pm: Nah man, I'll definitely try that setting!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Temris on June 1, 2008 at 1:10pm: Cool, thanks for the know-how, all.

But what about the video export settings? That's what I'm most concerned about.; ▶ Reply to This