Wow! OK… so I spent a few hours looking for an application to convert my videos to Flash. Yeah, yeah, I know that you can encode FLVs straight from PPro and AE… but there’s still that little bit about embedding them in a Webpage, streaming, etc. In the end, it looked like I was going to have to spend about fifty bucks to get a program to take AVIs or FLVs and embed them into usable SWF. Are ‘ya dizzy yet with “alphabet soup”??

But first a little video (my first Flash video!) of the lead-in from my current project for my church’s small group ministry. I just animated some Photoshop layers in AE, added a 3D camera and some lights for the logo. Then it goes into the titles where I just got lazy and used an AE text animation preset.

And now the backstory….

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