Comments on: How To Properly Export Quicktime in Flash CS4

By: Siosi (Admin)

Siosi (Admin) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:08 +0000

Hi Matthew, sorry for the late reply. I'm equally as sorry that none of the above helped you with this quicktime problem. Were you able to find a solution in the end?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:02:15 +0000

I've experienced the same problem as these folks. I'm convinced that there is no real solution. Even exporting as an image sequence does not work. It makes no sense that the quicktime exporter tries to "record" at real time. It makes me mad every time I watch it try to work. I have no problem with file size, or compression, or image quality, just that it basically records the first and last frame of my movie and that's it.

By: Siosi

Siosi — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:43:08 +0000

hi Josh – I've had a lot of annoying issues with Flash CS4, myself, since it came out. It's hard to diagnose your problem from a mere message so, if you want, you can send me your file and I can try to see if it comes up with the same issues on my computer? More often than not, my troubleshooting simply involves trial and error with the settings. Once I find the solution, I store it in my memory forever!

The only thing I can think of, for this particular problem, is that, maybe, your settings under (when exporting) "Quicktime Settings > (Video) Size" is different from your stage dimensions…

By: Siosi the Pathfinder

Siosi the Pathfinder — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:41:30 +0000

Well, when you export any sort of animation uncompressed, the file size is usually going to be large (sometimes as large as 4GB but not usually). If you’re still having trouble, try exporting your animation as image files, and then stitching them back together using Quicktime Player (you can Google this if you don’t know how to do it). It’s a relatively lengthy process, and I only recommend it as a last resort, but it works.

It’s a shame that so many people are still experiencing these problems! Best of luck.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:50:27 +0000

I tried exporting my Flash animation to a Quicktime file using your settings, and nothing happened. After I clicked export, nothing came up, so I assumed that the exporting was extremely fast and went to the folder that I chose to export it to, and it wasn't there. I tried exporting it to AVI, and it worked, but the file size was unbelievably enormous: 4GB. The file size of the Flash document itself was only 16,879KB. Additionally the quality of the exported movie was terrible. I've tried all of the export file formats, but none of them work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Siosi

Siosi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:46:40 +0000

Could you please give me some more specifics about your flash file (resolution, fps, settings, etc.)?

By: greg

greg — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:44:49 +0000

Having major issues with exporting flash into mov file. The file is crazy large and my mac which is 300g, runs out of space before it's finished. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: siosism

siosism — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:47:36 +0000

No worries! Best of luck

By: scottmuldoon

scottmuldoon — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:55:57 +0000

Thanks,

I haven't updated the latest hotfix yet, just doing it now…will see if it helps at all.
Also, I noticed that after exporting a Quicktime movie from Flash and then uploading it to you tube it seems to play fine on you tube, but it still has a few glitches when i play it using quicktime player on my laptop.
If the problem persists i'll upload the file for you to have a look at.

Thanks for your help on this matter, much appreciated.

By: Siosi

Siosi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:28:50 +0000

Also, have you updated Flash with the latest hotfix? http://bit.ly/iiXm0