Is this possible?

[Ch3W]

Hi there,

I have a flash app where the user creates a dynamic animation. What I need, is for behind the scenes, the animation created by the user can be exported to video format, preferably an avi file. Is this possible with flash? :eek:

Please help,

Ch3W

[Ch3W]

If everyone is unsure of this, does anybody know if it is possible for the user to export his own animation created using my flash app, to FLA or SWF format?

[hangalot]

yes, using motion xml its possible

[Ch3W]

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply! Only thing is, I can't see how using the motion xml it is possible to export an animation to either an avi or fla file? Can anyone please help here?

[hangalot]

when you say animation do you things that move around or someone drawing?
you can import motion data again into a fla, but i could be misunderstanding

[Ch3W]

Hi again,

Just to clarify - in a flash based application, the user is basically placing images in a particular order and then pressing a "play" button. The play button then plays the images one after the other, fading into eachother. What I'd like, is the user to have the option to save their custom animation as either an avi file, or fla file....

Have I explained this well enough?

[CyanBlue]

Flash cannot generate any sorts of movie file...

Motion XML??? What is that??? Hm... Gotta google...

[Ch3W]

Thanks Cyan... okay, so I can't generate a movie file. Any other ideas of how I can capture the animations? Even if it's in fla or swf format?

[CyanBlue]

No, I don't think there is anybody who's done that yet...

Checked out the Motion XML stuff, but it seems like that's AS3 only version...
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/motionXSD.html

Oh, please don't call me Cyan... I hate people who does that... :(

[Noct]

Ok, well I'm just brainstorming here, but I imagine you could always create two files. One to be an authoring environment for the user, and the other to be a sort of template file that can rebuild what they decided upon dynamically.

For instance, say the project allows them to define a start point for an animation; you could store the point they chose in a variable, then give them another swf file that checks that variable and animates based on that information.

You could store the variables they create in a shared object on thier pc, and then rebuild thier file using your blank template swf.
If you want it to be distributable to other users you would need a server side language to build a file using their information. If you want it sent to you, you could just email it...

I'm not saying this would work any better then using an outside architechture to build the file, I just thought I'd mention that it is possible to do this stuff in Flash, you just have to wrap your head around Flash's limitations...