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I did have a couple of questions about your reply and tips…

Okay instead of exporting straight from AE I export it as a quicktime mov file. But it still seems to be choppy and slow on playback.

Im a bit confused regarding the 90 frame rate…do I set the frame rate at 90 in AE and then export the mov. also at 90 because I tried this and it made the movie into a larger file…I believe because of more frames. Or do I keep the frame rate in AE at 30 and export to Quicktime mov file at 90. I tried this aswell but when I opened it in Quicktime and the clip just played the begining and end. Any clarification here can really help.

Im not really familiar with “tweener” although I have breifly played around with it a while back. Does this make a large difference on playing back an video effect like this? not to mention I had to make it larger now its about 1000×900 px and about 2.5 seconds long.

Thanks again for any comments or suggestions you may have, its really appreciated…keep up the great work.

First of all, if you’re having any issues with the FLV, don’t export it from AE – instead export to Quicktime and convert using the Flash Video Encoder. It’s an extra step but sometimes you get weird quality inconsistencies when exporting directly to FLV from AE.
Next, try using a keyframe rate of 90 instead of ‘automatic’ (which is usually 30) – depending on the type of animation you may get the same quality with a much lighter file.
Embed the FLV on the timeline and handle the playback with a tweening class like “tweener” or “tweenlight”.
Also make sure you don’t have the FLV animation starting at exactly the same time as you’re shooting off a bundle of other commands. Stagger your animation so that when the FLV starts, it’s one of the only lines of code that gets called during that milisecond.
You should be good. Let me know if you continue to have problems.

I looked over many of your posts regarding AE and flash and I have been trying to incorporate some AE in my flash work. Buttons and small animations work well when I export them from AE as flv’s and import them into flash. But it seems that when I begin playing around with larger images and effects it seems to play choppy and slow when played back on certain computers. I have an effect that is about 700×600 and is 3 sec. long that is doing this very thing. I noticed that in a couple of your projects you have quite large video effect and they play very smoothly. I was wondering if you had any advice for larger AE/flv effect playback. Do you code these into your work to somehow get them to play without it getting choppy or slowing down? thanks for your time.