Exporting XFL Format from After Effects to Flash

I’m just wondering what the difference is.. BEcause I’ve exported stuff form after effects the normal way.. In fact I followed a tutorial from you about the rain you animated in the picture. Why did that work without the “XLF” ?

“Fomrat?” I’ve been in the digital industry for a few years now & I’ve never heard of this ‘fomrat’ you speak of. Sometimes I type too fast and reverse letters too .

Thanks, Tom. I just added a comment to the “Working with Flash and After Effects” page of After Effects Help to point to this video tutorial.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WSDE67F770-09B6-4f4b-AF9B-9E577311067A.html

Responding to Jimmy: Exporting the composition as an XFL file can make the individual layers in the composition available for independent animation and manipulation in Flash, unlike the old way that required you to render and export a flattened movie without individual layers exposed to Flash.

[...] Effects in InDesign by Jeff Witchel Creating Eye Catching Text in Illustrator – By Corey Barker Exporting XFL Format from After Effects to Flash by Tom Green Powering Search with Audio Metadata using Premiere Pro by Richard Harrington Fast Layout in Adobe [...]

Thanks Todd.. Makes sense now

come on.
it never was hard to export movies and sequences for flash. this is a redundant feature. i thought this was going to be interesting tut, but was mistaken.

I haven’t tried this at home but I hope it will reduce the size of the exported ae file when is published through flash. That is the main pain for me, when I am importing ae files into flash they get “heavier” than a normal flash swf file.

how do you do it with audio?

well if does not help me reduce the file size of my swf .. its redundant yeah ..
easily export a movie or image sequence and import in flash .. why go for all this