Michael Carter
Veteran
After lots of playing around, I got flash animations to look great in FCP - even did alpha channel clips that drop in & integrate with live video. This should be a lot of fun.
Finally settled on exporting as a PNG sequence (with alpha as needed), opening those sequences in QT Pro and saving as animation. If I needed audio from flash to align things, I'd also export a movie with audio, and copy the audio from that into the image sequence movie in QT Pro. Exporting with audio set to PCM meant no audio rendering - the animation codec clips did need to render. (DV & DVCPro looked like crap in FCP and didn't render out well, either). The output - input process was very quick.
I was able to align all of those clips with a higher-quality soundtrack from ProTools, and then just delete the flash-generated audio. Really worked great, here's a youtube of the latest:
Finally settled on exporting as a PNG sequence (with alpha as needed), opening those sequences in QT Pro and saving as animation. If I needed audio from flash to align things, I'd also export a movie with audio, and copy the audio from that into the image sequence movie in QT Pro. Exporting with audio set to PCM meant no audio rendering - the animation codec clips did need to render. (DV & DVCPro looked like crap in FCP and didn't render out well, either). The output - input process was very quick.
I was able to align all of those clips with a higher-quality soundtrack from ProTools, and then just delete the flash-generated audio. Really worked great, here's a youtube of the latest: