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238 Creating Animations
Flash SWF
The Flash SWF (ShockWave Flash) format has fast become the format of choice
for interactive vector-based graphic animation for the web. Great for creating a
simple or sophisticated animated toolbar for web page navigation, it is
universally supported on web browsers. The files can be easily manipulated
further (scaled, etc.) within Adobe® Flash®.
To export your animation as a Flash file:
1. Choose Export>Export as Flash SWF... from the File menu.
2. From the dialog, provide a ShockWave Flash file name and folder
location, and click the Save button. You'll see an export progress
dialog appear until the Flash file is created.
Video
Exported video formats include:
• QuickTime. The QuickTime video and animation format (MOV)
developed by Apple Computer. It can be read on many platforms,
including Microsoft Windows (needs QuickTime Player) and of
course on Apple computers. QuickTime supports most encoding
formats, including Cinepak, JPEG, and MPEG.
• Serif Transparent Video. The STV format is a useful proprietary
format which can export animated text and logos with transparent
backgrounds. The export benefits Serif MoviePlus users who would
like to use their keyframe animation as an overlay (of titles, animated
characters, etc.).
• Video for Windows. The Windows Audio Video Interleave file (AVI)
is ideal for playback on a Windows computer. Defined by Microsoft, it
supports different types of video, audio and image sequences in sync
with a mono or stereo sound track along with compression (via a wide
variety of codecs). AVIs are mainly for viewing on a computer.
Appropriate codecs have to be installed on the computer.