flash bitmap optimiser
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- randalldon0
Hey Dno,
There are a few ways to do this but it really depends on how much work you want to do. It also depends on how long your after effects animation is.
If its bitmap optimisation you want to achieve i'd export from After Effects as you've done as an image sequence. Here you can specify you output format in the options such as png but you'd be better off strting with an uncompreesed format such as bmp before you do the optimisation. You could then run a batch process in either photoshop, image ready or fireworks to export each frame as an optimised version automatically rather than having to optimise each frame manually. For this i would recommend Fireworks as the compression is so much better than either Photoshop or Image Ready so you'll get a better quality image for you file size.
Its possible that there is some software or after effects plugin that may well do all this for you but i'm not aware of one but then again After Effects is not really my area. Don't forget you could also import the swf into flash and play with the export settings such as the jpeg quality (this can have quite a dramatic impact on output swf file size)to achieve a satisfactory result and publish a more compressed swf.
Hope that helps!