ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
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To create and use output module templates
You can create templates that save commonly used output module settings. These templates appear in the Output
Module pop-up menu in the Render Queue panel. You can specify a default output module template for movie
rendering and another for creating a single frame. After Effects provides several templates that include commonly
used formats, such as Microsoft DV NTSC. You can also save all output module settings templates to a single file to
use on another computer.
Note: After Effects includes templates that specify the use of the Pre-render and Create Proxy commands. (See “To create
a proxy” on page 601.)
❖ Choose Edit > Templates > Output Module, and do one of the following:
• To set the default template to be used when creating movies, choose a template from the Movie Default menu.
• To set the default template to be used when creating a single frame, choose a template from the Frame Default
menu.
• To create a new template, click New. Then type the output module settings and a name for the new template, and
click OK.
• To edit an existing template, choose a template from the Settings Name menu and click Edit. Change the settings
you want, and then click OK.
Note: Changes to an existing template do not affect render items that are already in the render queue.
• To save all currently loaded output module templates to a file, click Save All. Select a location for the file, type a
file name, and then click OK.
• To load a saved output module template file, click Load, select the template file, click Open, and then click OK.
You can also create an output module template by clicking the arrow next to Output Module in the Render Queue
panel and choosing Make Template.
Exporting to Macromedia Flash (SWF) format
About Flash format
You can export compositions from After Effects as Macromedia
®
Flash
™
(SWF) files. Web browsers with the Flash
Player plug-in can play SWF files.
The Flash (SWF) format is a widely used vector graphics and animation format for the web. Flash movies are
distributed as SWF files, a compact binary format that can contain audio and vector objects. See “Supported features
for SWF export” on page 611 for information about which features After Effects can export as vector objects.
Note: When you export to SWF, vector objects in a nested composition—including solids—are rasterized.
To export a composition to Macromedia Flash (SWF) format
During export to SWF, After Effects maintains vectors as much as possible. However, raster images and some effects,
blending modes, and motion blur cannot be represented as vectors in the SWF file and are rasterized. (See
“Supported features for SWF export” on page 611.)
You can choose to ignore these unsupported items so that the SWF file includes only those After Effects features that
can be converted into native SWF elements, or you can choose to rasterize frames that contain unsupported features
and add them to the SWF file as JPEG-compressed bitmap images, which may reduce the efficiency of the SWF file.
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