I can not export Flash animations successfully as a Quick Time Video. Please Help...

Question

Hello there,
I have been trying to both publish and export a Flash
animation from a native Flash file as a Quicktime .mov file. I am
using Flash 8 and have Quicktime 7.1.3 installed on my Mac running
OSX 10.4.8 - I get an error message every time I try to publish the
animation as Quicktime saying "An error occurred because a required
Quick Time component could not be found." My Quick Time program
works perfectly in all other programs. I tried it on another
computer and got the same error. I tried several different settings
and worked through the Flash Help Guide with no luck.
I also tried to do File / Export / Export Movie / Quick Time
Video. When I use this option it does successfully complete an
export but Quicktime file ".mov" has missing graphics and no sound
from the original Flash animation. Can you help me please. I need
to import this animation in a Keynote presentation ultimately.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Thanks Nickels55 - beat me to that ink :)
Also - try setting publish settings to flash player 5 - you
may lose some flash 8 features if you
are using any.
Personally - I find the best solution is SWF2Video
(www.flashants.com) but I am afraid there's no
Mac version (i think).
Usually Macs are better than PCs when it comes to export to
quicktime because you have the option of
choosing quicktime video - but make sure, if you are
exporting to a true video (fixed frame rate)
format you do not use movie clips or actionscript at all
(convert all movie clips to graphic or
place on main timeline).
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Brandoski wrote:
> Hello there,
> I have been trying to both publish and export a Flash
animation from a native
> Flash file as a Quicktime .mov file. I am using Flash 8
and have Quicktime
> 7.1.3 installed on my Mac running OSX 10.4.8 - I get an
error message every
> time I try to publish the animation as Quicktime saying
"An error occurred
> because a required Quick Time component could not be
found." My Quick Time
> program works perfectly in all other programs. I tried
it on another computer
> and got the same error. I tried several different
settings and worked through
> the Flash Help Guide with no luck.
>
> I also tried to do File / Export / Export Movie / Quick
Time Video. When I
> use this option it does successfully complete an export
but Quicktime file
> ".mov" has missing graphics and no sound from the
original Flash animation.
> Can you help me please. I need to import this animation
in a Keynote
> presentation ultimately. Thank you.
>