Re: FLASH: using flash to create animated gifs

[Marc Hoffman]

Hi Rob.


Though I'm not 100% sure what you mean, it may help if you stick to one

stage color, then in the lowest layer of your .fla place a full-stage-size,

solid, rectangular-shaped graphic symbol.  You can use color effects on

this symbol to change your background wherever in the movie you like (just

insert a keyframe and apply color effect for that frame's instance).  When

it's time to export for your .gif, change that layer to "guide," which

makes it invisible on export to .swf  (and, hopefully, on export to .gif

also).


Let me know if this helps.


Marc


At 09:46 AM 12/10/98 +0000, you wrote:

>I am forced to use flash3 to create animates gifs as my boss has no idea

basically (I would much rather use flash plain and simple of course).  He

has also chosen some non web safe colours for the background of our pages.

(Thankfully they are intranet only atm!)  

>

>The animations I have to create have alpha effects and of course Falsh

uses a succession of colours to recreate this in a animated gif as a gif

can only have 1 level of transparency.  This means I have to create a

series of animations for different coloured backgrounds instead of 1 with a

transparent backgound.

>

>This is the only way I can think of to get around this and it is not that

hard really.  Just a matter of changing the background colour of the movie

and re exporting.  I know that I should be using Flash totally but there is

no way of talking round my boss.

>

>What I really want to know is there a way of automating this process or

writing a macro to speed up the dead boring clicking to change colour and

re export.

>

>Rob Cornelius

>




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