Flash Render Que Questions
One last thing about Flashforward. 
Dave Vamos from Six Point Harness Studios recently wondered out loud about a Flash render que. Plenty of animation studios now render out thousands of PNG files on route to Final Cut or After Effects. This can be a huge time waster, and if you’ve got dozens of FLAs to render, someone has to sit in front of Flash and que each one up individually for rendering.
While talking with Mike Downey (Sr. Product Manager – Flash) and Ivan Cavero Belaunde from Macromedia last week, there may be a solution. Is anyone familiar with FLPs? It’s a Flash project file, and supposedly we could build an FLP that houses multiple FLAs, and then render in batches. Perhaps someone is already doing this, but regardless, let’s hear from the audience on this topic.
Grant Skinner, the award-winning CEO of gskinner.com, mentioned that we might try a multi-compile JSFL. Does that make sense to anyone? To me, it sounds like a football league.
March 7th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Take a look at FlashAnt — it’s an Ant task that batch compiles FLAs. I haven’t tested it with Flash 8 though. There’s another, similar Ant task though I forget its name.
March 7th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
yeah, that’s what jsfl excels at. you just need a list of the flas to render, create an array of them and loop through the array, load each one, publish it, close it, and load the next one. you could do hundreds in an hour.
March 7th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Hi,
After severals research on the subject, I now use swf complilation (using project), and then batch process-it with swf2avi how makes really large (and clean) avi files.
I then used After Effect 6 with jsx (Javascript for Adobe) to batch some filter.
March 7th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
I used FPL’s. its works great. it a one stop location for all my development files, and all I have to do is hit test project, then all my fla’s are published.
March 7th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
I couldn’t get the JSFL code to publish here in the comments, but take a look at this.
URL : http://www.yapiodesign.com/files/PublishAllPNG.jsfl
Takes all open FLAs and exports PNG sequences.