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Exporting After Effects content for use in Flash
You can export After Effects content for use in Flash. You can export a SWF file that can be played immediately in
Flash Player or used as part of another Flash project. When you export content from After Effects in SWF format,
the some of the content may be flattened and rasterized in the SWF file.
Importing Flash SWF files into After Effects
Flash has a unique set of vector art tools that make it useful for a variety of drawing not possible in After Effects or
Adobe Illustrator®. You can import SWF files into After Effects to composite them with other video or render them
as video with additional creative effects. When After Effects imports a SWF file, its internal keyframes are preserved
so that you can continue to use them for timing other effects.
Each SWF file imported into After Effects is flattened into a single continuously rasterized layer, with its alpha
channel preserved. Continuous rasterization means that graphics stay sharp as they are scaled up. This import
method allows you to use the root layer or object of your SWF files as a smoothly rendered element in After Effects,
allowing the best capabilities of each tool to work together.
Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
Adobe® Premiere® Pro is designed to capture, import, and edit film and video. After Effects is designed to produce
motion graphics and visual effects for film, broadcast television, DVD, and the web. You can easily exchange projects,
compositions, tracks, and layers between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. You can import an Adobe Premiere
Pro project into After Effects, or export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project. You can also
import Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects into After Effects.
You can copy and paste layers and tracks between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have Adobe® Creative
Suite® 3 Production Premium, you can use Adobe Dynamic Link to export After Effects compositions into Adobe
Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore without first rendering them, or you can start Adobe Premiere Pro from within After
Effects and capture footage for use in After Effects.
See also
"Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro" on page 74
"About Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)" on page 603
"Export an After Effects project to Adobe Premiere Pro" on page 602
Work with Adobe Encore and After Effects
You can use After Effects to quickly create buttons and button layers for importing into Adobe® Encore®. Adobe
Encore uses a naming standard to define a button and the role of individual layers as subpicture highlights and video
thumbnails. When you select a group of layers to create as an Adobe Encore button, After Effects precomposes the
layers and names the precomposition according to the naming standards for buttons.
Highlight layer names receive the prefix (=1), (=2), or (=3), and video thumbnail names receive the prefix (%).
After Effects includes template projects that include entire DVD menus for you to use as a basis for your own DVD
menus. To use Bridge to browse and import these template projects, choose File > Browse Project Templates. (See
"Work with template projects" on page 21.)
See also
"Create a web link, chapter link, or cue point from a marker" on page 122
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