Subtitles of the Movie

As you can see, we are currently in Flash and this is a file based on yet another one of my characters. I have a billion, trillion characters and I was like this as a child. I had a notebook with hundreds and hundreds of characters with the craziest names ever in this notebook because when you're a kid, everything's brilliant. But when you grow up, you're like, what was I thinking? But anyway, this is Kid Caramel and I'm animating him to put on my website and what I want to do is just scrub this for you and hit Return on my keyboard to show you that his mouth talks and he blinks and everything, but there is yet no audio and he's not really saying anything at the moment. But I'm showing you this because when we bring a file from Flash into After Effects, we can bring in the swf file, which is the animated file and we can then add other effects to that. So what we're going to do is we're going to bring in the file that is generated when you either go to file, publish or you go to control, test movie. Wherever I save this file, the published file, or the movie file that's generated when you test it is going to give you the swf file, which is once again what we're going to bring into After Effects. So I'm going to jump back over to After Effects and I'm going to go to file, import, file and I'm going to choose Kid Caramel, synch.swf. And I'm going to open this up. And here he is and here's the file. I'm going to drag this right to the icon here to create a new comp and I'll just zoom in a little bit, increase the resolution and when I preview this by hitting the space bar, you'll see that he's talking. And once again, I don't have the audio in place yet, but I can bring that easily into this application or to Premier or into Final Cut Pro. I'm going to go ahead and click this button here so we can get a more smooth preview and I'll also increase the resolution to 50 percent. Once again, I'll hit the space bar and we can see that he is doing his thing in After Effects. Actually, let me go to 100 percent so we can see that it's nice and neat and everything comes in intact. I can even scrub the timeline and see that the animation is place. I can then create markers if I need to for queues when he speaks or I can just watch the lip-synch in an application and then record the audio right over that. So, once again, very easy to bring in your Flash files as a swf right into After Effects. This is very handy when you want to animate logos or you want to animate characters or anything, actually, and then work in After Effects to apply your special effects and everything else.