Thanks, I’ll look into that.

So far I have discovered that CS 6 can export an swf.  I can reduce my project so there is nothing in it but some solids so I think the export should work.  It’s a pain back-saving from 2017 to CS 6 but at least it’s possible.

The problem I have is that I have an expression driving the opacity of each layer, and I am assuming I will need to convert the expressions to keyframes before I export.  With 10 minutes of animation and 800+ layers this is going to take some time.  You can’t feasibly select 800 layers in CC 2014 and earlier, a small reminder of some of the improvements over the years, so I’m doing as much as I can in 2017 before back-saving a heavily reduced project to CS 6.  Fun & games!

I might have to script it and leave it over a weekend…

> On 6 Nov 2017, at 4:30 pm, Robert Davidson <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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> It’s been a long while since I did this in AE.
> Might be easier to render an mp4 and convert to swf with a converter like ‘Wondershare Video converter Pro”
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> Cheers, Rob
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>> On 6 Nov 2017, at 3:20 pm, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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>> So here’s a first for me, after working on an animation for several days I’ve just been told the only format they can play back is swf.  I’m actually creating patterns for a lighting show, and the file is going to some type of lighting desk console.  I have no idea what, but it isn’t like it’s going to be played on a desktop PC.
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>> So considering that I’ve been working in CC 2017, what options do I have?  The good news (if any) is that the animation is just white solids on a black background, and I know that at some stage in the past AE could export a swf for vector images, which my animation is.  However I’m not sure if I can back-save far enough to the last version of AE that still did this - I can’t remember when the SWF feature was removed from AE.
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>> Any suggestions?
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>> -Chris
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