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Integrating after effects for flash buttons

Can anyone help me out with after effects, i'm looking for info on making simple but great looking effects that i could integrate into flash buttons.

thanks in advanced

here is an example : http://purplecobraz.com/header.swf -- http://www.purplecobraz.com/index3.html

^ doesnt have to be like that, but just an example of using a motion graphics program for buttons.

Last edited by inpro, September 15th, 2005 05:17 PM (Edited 3 times)

nvm, I've been playing with after effects a lot today, and i'm figuring out some neat stuff.

I dont know if they used a motion graphics program for that. It just looks like Radial Gradients in Flash.

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Originally posted by Musoka:

I dont know if they used a motion graphics program for that. It just looks like Radial Gradients in Flash.

heh, they did (apple motion)

but it's all good, i have all this figured out now. after effects is really nice, once trial is up i might just have to buy it (student version of course..lol)

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but now I have another problem ... lol (taken from another forum I posted on)

"As title says, I'm working on a rollover particle effect to use for a button on a site I'm working on.

I'm having trouble getting it to loop flawlessly (where you can't see it startover)
^ so if someone could help me there, that would be cool.

Also, when I export it as an image sequence (PNG for transparentcy) it's about 600k (too big for flash) - any way I can compress that down some more w/o losing quality?

thanks in advanced guys."

^ so if anyone could help out with that :)

Last edited by inpro, September 16th, 2005 12:20 AM (Edited 1 times)

the file size for the image sequence should be too big of a problem, flash automaticly adds compression onto anything to bring into it

and to get it to loop seemlessly the first and last frame have to be the same

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yeah i did it

Originally posted by thatpassivekid:

the file size for the image sequence should be too big of a problem, flash automaticly adds compression onto anything to bring into it

and to get it to loop seemlessly the first and last frame have to be the same

doesnt work like that, i mean have it loop in AE so when I export it, it loops flawlessly. it's something i can't fix in flash.

if someone could host a small movie clip of what im talking about, maybe it will help?

Last edited by inpro, September 16th, 2005 03:23 AM (Edited 1 times)

check this site it may help u with after effects which also i'm learning now
http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html

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Originally posted by BABOON:

check this site it may help u with after effects which also i'm learning now
http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html

yeah i've looked around on that site before, but my problem is a little more specific than looking at tutorials.

thanks though.

hey inpro,

looping particle effects requires some cross fading (at least this is the easiest way). For example, say you want a 2 sec loop - create a composition with a 4 second particle effect. Then create a new comp that's 2 secs long and drag in two copies of your 4 sec comp. Make the top layer start at the 2 second point and end at 4 secs and the bottom layer start at 0 seconds and end at 2. Now adjust the opacity of the two layers so that the top layer starts at 100% and ends at 0 and the bottom layer starts at 0 and ends at 100. The trick here is to position the keyframes so that the fade looks good, but not noticeable (if you put the keyframes in first and last frame of each layer, there will be an obvious dip in opacity right in the middle). Anyway, that's the easiest way to loop. Gets more difficult for stuff like water or clouds or (the worse) falling leaves or whatever.

For filesize, exporting as .jpg will be incredibly smaller than .png, so knowing what you want your background to be will come in handy..

d.

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