Hi all.
I'm using Flash CC on a Windows 8 system. The specs are i7-3770, 12GB RAM, 128GB SSD, etc.
When we create flash animations, we look at the SWF and it looks fantastic.
YouTube unfortunately doesn't accept SWF as a valid file type.
This is where things start to get hairy.
Someone suggested I export PNGs as a sequence along with the audio and then add these to a program such as Adobe Premiere or After Effects.
Is it normal for a 5 minute animation @ 30fps to take nearly 5 hours to export the PNGs?
I'd like to think my system is strong enough to do it a bit quicker than this.
FYI - Flash CC no longer has the ability to export as a PNG sequence (Flash Pro CS6 still has it).
I tried using export > video in Flash CC to generate an MOV. This creates an MOV that is 12GB+.
I can't believe a 5 minute MOV could even become that large. I then use the Adobe Media Encoder to compress the MOV into an MP4. This works no problem but no matter what settings I try, the colors don't seem as vivid as the SWF.
Everything has this slight dullness to it and I can't figure out why. Both the MOV with the huge file size and the compressed MP4 lack the vividness in color the SWF has.
Can anyone here share with me the export process they use for an HD animation that can be uploaded to YouTube?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean