Flash or After Effect?

I am new to the CS3 collection. I'm confused on what's the difference between flash and After Effect?, and why do I need both? I want to create animation and image reels for my clients website, but don't know which software to use. Any help u give would be really helpful.
Thanks

Yeah, this reminds me a little of visual effects in your better movies; to make them convincing, they usually mix several techniques and tools. Lord of the Rings used CG, puppets, matte paintings, costumes, forced perspective, etc.
Likewise, Adobe.com integrates After Effects-made movies into a Flash/HTML environment with Photoshop backgrounds, Illustrator vectors, etc.
For really lush movies with deep environments, photo-realistic environments, and special effects (as well as million other options), After Effects is what you want.
For interactive environments on the web with clean lines, and vector art, Flash is what you want.
However, to integrate your After Effects movies into an interactive, lush environment, you probably need both, as well as other software such as Photoshop, Soundtrack, or a 3D application to get what you want.
It's probably better for you to decide what you want to do (specifically) and then figure out what tools you need to do the job. You wouldn't go buy a power-saw and cordless drill to tune-up a bicycle. You would look at the job at hand and go buy tools like allen wrenches, spoke wrenches and air pumps.
You should download the demos of the software and see what you like. You may find you might be biting off more than you can chew (or not) and that you don't want anything to do with ActionScript coding or keyframe based animation. Who knows?
Good luck!
-steven

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Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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RIBS version: 2.0.133.0
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AdobeCode: {043A67CA-08C4-4669-A2A1-B03F6D8D509C}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeWinSoftLinguisticsPluginAll\AdobeWinSoftLinguisticsPluginAll.boot.xml
AdobeCode: {064F0D64-1F54-4F4B-953E-BAED5D7E69B2}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobePDFSettings9-mul\AdobePDFSettings9-mul.boot.xml
AdobeCode: {092DF7B0-6E10-4718-9763-9704CC4E6EF9}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeALMAnchorService2-mul\AdobeALMAnchorService2-mul.boot.xml
AdobeCode: {0967604F-33E6-4C6B-934B-157C3AB4ED4C}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeExtensionManager2All\AdobeExtensionManager2All.boot.xml
AdobeCode: {0A621EC5-B98B-45C9-95FE-A7D0DA3150EA}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeFlashPlayer10_axDbg_mul\AdobeFlashPlayer10_axDbg_mul.proxy.xml
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AdobeCode: {2B47D5DE-E019-4130-AB69-2DAB4DEEBB0A}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul\AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul.boot.xml
AdobeCode: {2BD22DAB-D025-4c9a-A62E-DAD828393885}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeFlash10-en-ExtensionFL30\AdobeFlash10-en-ExtensionFL30.boot.xml
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Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeOutputModuleAll\AdobeOutputModuleAll.boot.xml
AdobeCode: {3251BB24-1889-4BB4-9774-BA0D57FE7D0E}
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\extensions\AdobeFlash10-en_GBLanguagePack\AdobeFlash10-en_GBLanguagePack.proxy.xml
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Type: 0, Volume Order: 1, Media Name: Adobe CS4, Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Chu\Desktop\Adobe CS4\Flash Professional\Adobe CS4\payloads\AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul\AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul.msi
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I need to update illustrator, flash and after effects and I keep getting the same error 49 over and over

I need to update illustrator, flash and after effects and I keep getting the same error 49 over and over. Please help thanks!

Link for Download & Install & Setup & Activation problems may help
-Chat http://www.adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/
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-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/error-downloading-cc-apps.html
-http://forums.adobe.com/community/download_install_setup
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/troubleshoot-cc-installation-download.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/errors-or-unexpected-behavior-websites.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unknown-server-error-launching-cc.html
-Server won't connect https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1233088

Flash or After Effects

Hello everyone. I am new to CS3. What's the difference
between Flash and After Effects? Sense I bought the Master
collection, I want to use everything in this CS3. And I confused on
the two.
I want to create animation and still image reels for my
clients websites and don't know which one to use or start off with?
Thanks

Well, it depends what you use Flash for. Certainly it's not
for timeline
animation for many developers. I haven't used the timeline in
a long time -
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RIA's, data
viz, and the like. But there are plenty of people using it as
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tool... It just depends on your needs. AfterEffects has a
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Photoshop CC, Flash CC, After Effects CC, Dreamweaver CC all Closes right after opening????

I have tried everything on the forums, but every time i open Photoshop, Dreamweaver, flash, after effects all with CC paid membership closes right after opening them. I have read the forums searched in the internet, update and downgrade the drivers on graphic card, sign in and out the adobe creative cloud, The one thing i notices is that when i open Photoshop in the notifications on my windows, it appears in the notifications that i register my product on adobe with ID but i have entered my Id with billing information an all when i click to continue it goes sign in then back to the address??. And in my products shows i have membership cloud, don't know what to do anymore! I have even uninstall the program and clean everything with adobe cleaning tool. I don't Know what to do!!!

Have you found a solution, I am having same problem

Export from Flash to After Effects or Illustrator?

So I was given a Flash puppet from someone that animates in Flash. I wanted to take that file with it's layers and use it in After Effects. How can I do this? The file is Flash CS5 but I'm using all CS6.

THANK YOU!!!! It was at 30 FPS, I was spending hours importing a new PNG sequence 1 frame extra at a time trying to fix it!
Totally fixed the issue.

Flash and After Effects integration

I made an animated text in After Effects and I want to now bring it into flash without a background. How do I do this? I am working with AfterEffects 7.0 and Flash CS3.

OK!!!! I just got this today!!!!
The following is a fix for Distorted video in Adobe Production Premium CS3 suite of products, including After Effects and FLASH.....
When on an Intel Mac, using Leopard, or Snow Leopard (I'm on a very newest MacBook Pro, with newest version of Snow Leopard).... and Adobe Production Premium CS3, you need to select "Open using Rosetta" for the affected applications. This cleans up the video.
When I tried to import an Animation codec and DV video into After Effects CS3, without this option enabled, I get very, very seriously distorted video! Like the viewing is set to 1/10 resolution!
When I enable "Open using Rosetta", it cleans right up to what I expect.
THOUGH, for some reason, there is no "Open using Rosetta" with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3!? So it's video is distorted and I don't know that fix yet (though I'm using Final Cut Pro, so it doesn't really matter to me). I do want to start using Premiere Pro (it's one of the first video editing programs I started with, before Avid and before FCP.... I use Premiere Pro with a Radius Video Vision card and last, I think version 1.0? And stop at version 4.21 (because version 5.0 was unusable! Then FCP came out, I started with FCP 1.0).
HOw you enable "Rosetta" is..... click once on the Application icon to select it, then type in "Command+I" to "Get Info". In the "Get Info" window there is an option to "check", or "un-check" "Open using Rosetta". Check that box and close the window. Now boot up into After Effects CS3 and you should be able to import clean Animation codec QuickTimes and DV!
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I've been looking for this for about a year!!!!
AND, did an intensive search start two days ago, when a client absolutely needed to have this working and I didn't have an answer, until just a short while ago!
I support over 40 MacPro's all with Adobe Production Premium CS3 and FInal Cut Pro.... along with two SAN's (Xsan and SANmp), two networks and etc.,,,, also including a newest Avid facility for ABC/Disney!!!! Normally, even though we have After Effects on all systems, most producer/editors only use PhotoShop and occasionally AE.... but this time the Producer/Editor absolutely needed AE CS3....
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Flash and After Effects...

I have this idea for a rollover button; I need to know if
it's even possible. I hope it is, here goes...I would like to
create button, eg let's say the "Contact" button on a site; I would
like to have light rays come from the word on the button when the
mouse button is rolled over; then, i would like to see the
"hottest" part of the rays follow the mouse cursor as it moves
across the button; the longest rays follow the mouse cursor as it
moves across the button. I hope that makes sense. Also, I don't
want the rays to start abruptly when the cursor rolls over the
button, I'd like for the effect to slowly appear and then dissipate
quickly, but not abruptly, after the rollover, you know, ease in
and out. I kind of thought of using shine in after effects, that
part I know...it's the flash part that I'm having a hard time with.
Is this even possible? Has anyone ever tried this before? I would
really appreciate some help with this...thank you all so much, I'm
looking forward to the insight. When I'm done I'd love to show you
the sight.

I have this idea for a rollover button; I need to know if
it's even possible. I hope it is, here goes...I would like to
create button, eg let's say the "Contact" button on a site; I would
like to have light rays come from the word on the button when the
mouse button is rolled over; then, i would like to see the
"hottest" part of the rays follow the mouse cursor as it moves
across the button; the longest rays follow the mouse cursor as it
moves across the button. I hope that makes sense. Also, I don't
want the rays to start abruptly when the cursor rolls over the
button, I'd like for the effect to slowly appear and then dissipate
quickly, but not abruptly, after the rollover, you know, ease in
and out. I kind of thought of using shine in after effects, that
part I know...it's the flash part that I'm having a hard time with.
Is this even possible? Has anyone ever tried this before? I would
really appreciate some help with this...thank you all so much, I'm
looking forward to the insight. When I'm done I'd love to show you
the sight.

Text won't import from flash to after effects

Dear all,
I'm relatively new to Flash (and an absolute novice at AE). I've been working on a series of simple videos in Flash that have alternating text and images. The idea was to import these .swf into Premiere Pro. However, Premier Pro doesn't take .swf files and I have to go through AE. When I import my .swf into AE all the text disappears and I only have the images. Any idea how to work around this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

See this note from After Effects Help about what is imported from a SWF file:
"SWF files are imported with an alpha channel. Audio is not retained. Interactive content and scripted animation are not retained. Animation defined by keyframes in the main, top-level movie is retained."

Is there a self writing text tool for iBA or do I have to use After Effects?

I am authoring a book that uses a lot of text examples—the idea is to have the examples as interactive text that self writes and highlights the important parts of each example when touched. Problem is that most self writing uses Flash so that is out and AE is horrible to use for more than one or two examples and I have thousands. Is there an easy solution or tool for iBooks Author to achive this easily?

Obviously I did not phrase the question correctly or you don't inderstand what self writing means.
The iBook is complete with all text in place. However, I want to present some example sentences as self writing sentences so that when a reader touches an example, it self writes in situ with important word or characters highlighted.
So for example, if the reader touches the sentence:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazey dogs.
The sentence disappears for a second and self writes word by word in situ but with the (incorrect) e in lazey highlighted as
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazey dogs.
Is that clear?
And more importantly, is there a tool, plugin, etc., to achieve this easily in iBooks? I know how to do it with flash and After Effects but the many thousands of examples to process makes AE a nightmare.

Animating in After Effects with video footage

When animating in After Effects, instead of using a solid background, can I use a video as the background and have it playing while the character is moving? I can't see why it wouldn't work. I've saw people question about animating in Flash ect and bringing it in, but I need to animate within AF. Hope someone can help me out!

Hi Claudia.
Are you using "AF" to stand for "Adobe Flash" Or "AFter effects"?
If you are trying to composite character animation over a background in After Effects, yes, it is a fantastic application for it.
You can create many types of backdrops easily (and very easy to modify elements back/forth from Photoshop)
As for character animation, there are multiple standard tools within After Effects. There are also third party plugins that may help you.
One plugin that I like to use for character animation is DUIK. DuDuF R&D » Duik – DuDuF IK Tools
(free)
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How to reduce the swf file size of an imported After Effects file

Hi!
I am trying to make a web banner for an internet marketing company, so it has very specific requirements. We had it made in After Effects, and I was able to export it as a FLV file and import to Flash just fine along with the SWF. Now, I need to make the SWF file significantly smaller.
Right now it is 2.5 MB and we can only submit a 40K size SWF. Is it even possible to reduce the size so much and still keep the animation's intregrity?
I am more familiar with Flash than After Effects, but can play around with settings, etc if someone can tell me what to try.
Thank you for your help!

the easiest way to load and play your flv is to use an flvplayback component. you just drag it from the component panel to the stage and, in the properties panel, assign its properties (eg, skin and source).
but that will probably put you just over your 40kb limit and will require the skin.swf to be placed on the server with your banner ad.
to decrease your swf size to negligible, use actionscript to play your flv. this is the barebones code needed. just replace your_video_url.flv:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
ns:NetStream = new NetStreamnc);
ns.play("your_video_url.flv");
var video:Video = new Video();
video.attachNetStream(ns);
addChild(video);

After Effects rendering the video with the audio out of sync

so, the thing is, i did the animation on flash, exported it, put it on after to edit audio and what not, everything looks fine, previews are good, so, lets render!... every time i render the final video have the audio out of sync, specially the audio that is already on the first video. the video its originally on 12 fps, if i change the interpretation to 24fps, everything get worse. any help?

ok, both Flash and After effect are CS6, i have a Lenovo Ideapad, can handle 64 bits
first i exported the video on .MOV from Flash CS6, without any problems
Then i finished the edition on After Effects, everything look good.
i have tried to render it on MOV, AVI, MP4 and the audio for the video that was exported from flash always get out of sync. i dont really move anything else

After Effects incompatible with TLF Text

I do constant importing of SWF files through Flash to After Effects for compositing and other purposes. The major problem in the new version is the fact that the new TLF text stuff either doesn't show up on AE or corrupts the file.
I need help on this, how do I get it to stop using TLF by default? In previous versions, I've never had a problem exporting the text.
Importing something like an illustrator graphic that contains text automatically makes the text TLF. What should I do to tell CS5 to stop making everything TLF?

Nobody has an answer to this? I've been trying to figure this out without having to go through all my text and vectorize it.
I never had to deal with this since Flash version 8, it's odd now that the touted compatibility between Flash and AE has been nerfed due to this thing.

Help importing a .swf file from Flash CS5.5 to After Effects CS5.5

I am working on animating a person in flash. I have a main timeline and then a timeline inside of a symbol so I can move
the characters facial features (eyebrows and mouth etc) apart from moving his entire body.
I want to have multiple scenes so I am importing all of the .swfs into After Effects and putting them together.
However, when I import the .swf into After Effects, it only plays what occurs in the main timeline
and not the timeline inside of the symbol, so it is just the character moving without the facial movements.
Is there a way to fix this or a better program to import the .swfs into and make the video?
Thanks in advance.

Here's the note from After Effects Help aboutt he limitations to SWF import:
SWF (continuously rasterized) Note: SWF files are imported with an alpha channel. Audio is not retained. Interactive content and scripted animation are not retained. Animation defined by keyframes in the main, top-level movie is retained.
The limitation that you noticed---that only animation in the top-level timeline is retained---is not one that can be worked around without changing how your animation is set up in Flash.

Flash or After Effect?

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