Photoshop CS3 export to Flash CS3

I have checked the adobe site, and the lynda.com site and
still can't find a way to export from Photoshop CS3 to Flash CS3 so
that all of the layers are imported into flash on individual
layers. I have found how to do it with CS2 using imageready but
that is no longer an option in CS3. Can anyone help? I have a flash
project on hold because of this one.
Thank you...

I have tried saving the file from Photoshop CS3 as a PSD and
then importing it into Flash CS3. You get all the layers but not
the drop shadows. The drop shadows are there but as a part of what
ever they are shadowing, they are not a separate layer. Also using
CS2 and Imageready I could get the layers to be named the same as
my file name automatically so each layer would end up with a unique
name instead of layer1 and layer2. Is there still a way to do it
the way we used to or something similar so that everything is on
its own layer including drop shadows and the layers in flash are
automatically named for you on import?

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etc...
As you can see the frame number 7 is repeated 3 times and
frame 8 and 9 are nowhere to be found.
The last configuration I used is 960x540, Sorenson video 3
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I tried various configurations,with different codecs and even
with keyframe all frames and I always get simillar problems.
Anyone have an idea what is going on, and how to fix this?
Thank you,
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feature - not the feature itself but how it
works (or how it doesn't work in some cases). For me it is
almost unusable unless you have a very
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generated effects or something - otherwise,
for true frame accuracy to video output - it is not reliable
enough and not fast enough for any real
world production environment.
So typically for me - I love SWF2Video (www.flashants.com) as
it takes any SWF and makes it into an
AVI that is frame accurate no matter what the frame rate is -
quite incredible - enough so that I
always felt it should have been bundled with Flash (as well
as Wacom tablets).
Harmony is an incredible product - as is SOLO and TBS (Toon
Boom mStudio) - each of those programs
are dedicated animation programs designed for output to video
- Flash has a lot of hats to fill and
it was never really designed for animation to video even
though many of us have found it suitable
for all intents and purposes as an animation program for full
production.
But all in all - the quicktime exporter doesn't really
deliver how we would expect it too I am sorry
to say - I only hope it works as well as it does on the Mac
(Mac users could always choose to export
to Quicktime Video but not PC users).
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hope this helps.
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Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
OBastien wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Chris.
>
> I tried different possible solutions you listed but it's
not working.
> Disabling sound had no effects. Changing the FPS is not
an option, it has to be
> 25 FPS. I lowered the resolution to 300 something, it
seemed to be a little bit
> better, but it still dropped some frame, and the image
quality was horrible.
>
> I think it is really sad that we have to try different
settings in the hope
> that flash will grab all the frames. I'm really
disapointed in Adobe. I'm
> pretty sure it is the fault of Adobe and not Apple,
because I don't have does
> problems with Quicktime in ToonBoom Harmony. What is
strange is when I do an
> AVI export I never noticed a dropped frame. I'm not
using AVI video right now
> because I can not find a codec that gives me small size,
fast encoding times,
> the ability to seek in the movie by dragging the
timeline progress bar, and the
> possibility to edit in After Effects. If you know an AVI
codec that does all
> that it would be really great news.
>
> Thank you again,
> Olivier.
>

Export to Flash CS3 doesn't work

Hello,
I have Captivate 4 and Flash CS3 (full versions) - WinXP.
When I want export Captivate project to Flash - "File -> Export
-> Project to -> Flash CS3" I will get only notify: "Cannot
initialize Cpativate FLA Exporter. You may need to restart Flash."
Flash CS3 is running and Captivate project is saved. Any idea?
Leoš

Hi Leoš,
I guess you are searching in the wrong place. Its not
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash
CS3\cs\Configuration\Importers
It should be
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<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers
For Vista:
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directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers
Windows Drive Letter is the drive in which windows is
installed into. Generally it is 'C' (without quotes)
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Copy RDMFISTUB9.dll into
For XP:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers\
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers\
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Captivate 4\RDMFISTUB9.dll)
Copy RdJsfl.dll into
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<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\External Libraries\
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\External Libraries\
(Ex path for dll: For XP, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe
Captivate 4\RdJsfl.dll)
Copy AdobeCaptivate Folder inside ActionScript Folder into
For XP:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Classes\
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Classes\
(Ex path for folder: For XP, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe
Captivate 4\ActionScript\AdobeCaptivate)
You can get RDMFISTUB9.dll, RdJsfl.dll in Adobe Captivate 4
installed directory
(Generally this should be C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe
Captivate 4)
Now try to import a cp file into captivate.
Ravi Kishore.

Export to Flash CS3, SWFs not editable - HELP!

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http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/integration/flash/)
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automatically inserted into the Flash Timeline, with objects,
images, audio, and backgrounds on individually labeled layers.
Similarly, the Flash library is automatically updated with folders
containing all the objects created in Adobe Captivate 3."
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Importing Illustrator CS3 files into flash CS3 to tween

Hello,
I'm definitely not a flash pro so I would like some help!
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Hi guys, I'm new in the forum and I don't know if what I need
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>I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about
>exporting
> to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from Captivate
and Importing
> from
> Flash to move my captivate project into flash. About 5
times, an error
> saying
> "Unknown error" had occurred popped up. I closed Flash
and Captivate a
> couple
> times and then it worked. Several new errors popped up
during the
> "successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project
imported terribly!
> Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
>
> Long story short, something is wrong. Is this a Vista
thing? Does anyone
> know about any of this?
>
Doesn't seem to be specific to Vista.
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sometimes it seems to
work beautifully (although always with an error message about
"unable to
find Flash.exe" or similar), aside from in issue with the
backgrounds all
importing to Flash at the wrong size. This is easily worked
around, and has
been discussed here a number of times.
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http://twitter.com/Stevehoward999
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
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Export from Captivate 3 to Flash CS3

I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about exporting to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from
Captivate and Importing from Flash to move my captivate project
into flash. About 5 times, an error saying "Unknown error" had
occurred popped up. I closed Flash and Captivate a couple times and
then it worked. Several new errors popped up during the
"successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project imported
terribly! Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
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>I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about
>exporting
> to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from Captivate
and Importing
> from
> Flash to move my captivate project into flash. About 5
times, an error
> saying
> "Unknown error" had occurred popped up. I closed Flash
and Captivate a
> couple
> times and then it worked. Several new errors popped up
during the
> "successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project
imported terribly!
> Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
>
> Long story short, something is wrong. Is this a Vista
thing? Does anyone
> know about any of this?
>
Doesn't seem to be specific to Vista.
I've had similar issues trying to export to Flash. But
sometimes it seems to
work beautifully (although always with an error message about
"unable to
find Flash.exe" or similar), aside from in issue with the
backgrounds all
importing to Flash at the wrong size. This is easily worked
around, and has
been discussed here a number of times.
My first suggestion to you is to try rebooting your machine
before trying to
export again.
Steve
http://twitter.com/Stevehoward999
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
http://www.elearningsummit.eu

Captivate 3 is wrong size when importing into Flash CS3

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I am trialling v3 and just been trying out the export to
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Hi
I would just like to know if you think flash 8 is better than
flash cs3
and
does flash cs3 contain ALL the features of flash 8?
and which is easier to use!?!
Thanks nows
in advance
and in the future!

yes yes and yes - usually, most software versions do not
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relative - impossible to answer as it is
based on your own learning curve with anything - the
difference between one or the other in terms of
learning curve is simply impossible to pinpoint for you
personally, we don't really know you :)
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AS3 and this may mean it is more time
consuming/difficult. But you may be a designer/animator with
little or no need for AS.
Hard to say. That's what the 30 day free trial is for - kick
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-c
Chris Georgenes - Mudbubble LLC - Animator/Author/Speaker
Adobe Community Expert - p.781.772.1073
www.mudbubble.com - www.keyframer.com -
www.howtocheatinflash.com
anand ganatra wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would just like to know if you think flash 8 is better
than flash cs3
>
> and
>
> does flash cs3 contain ALL the features of flash 8?
>
> and which is easier to use!?!
>
> Thanks nows
> in advance
> and in the future!
>
>

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