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Tutorials » Actionscripting: Expert: Creating 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects and using them in a Flash Animation
Creating 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects and using them in a Flash Animation
Intro
Why?
You'd like that something in your Flash-animation sticks to something in your Flash video or responds to it in some other way.Ex. You have footage of a cat running in the street and you'd like to attach something like a helmet or something that moves, like a propellor on his head. Well, now you can without becoming a patient monk.
Minimum requirements
-Macromedia Flash (AFAIK, mx, might be less)-Adobe After Effects (AFAIK, 6.5, might be less)
-Microsoft Excel (AFAIK, 2000, might be less, excel for mac is fine too)
Programming Languages being used
-XML-ActionScript
About
-Step 1: tracking in After Effects-Step 2: Converting 'Track-Points' to XML with Excel
-Step 3: Using the XML with ActionScript
Example project files:
flashFile.fla
Map1.xml
source.avi
source.flv
sourceTracks.aep
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Added: 2007-05-02 Rating: 10 Votes: 2 |
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| Digital Media Design Student |
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