How to export animation to SWF (flash) properly?

**Egg Bramhill** · 12 December 2016, 09:40 AM

Hi Cadu, I've had a quick look at your file and I get the same results as yourself.

I think you've hit upon an undocumented size limitation of Xara's here. Try this:

Alter the page width to 1600px.
Select all the bitmaps together & reduce them to 1600px
Preview swf
Works fine for me.

I don't know if this limits you for use within other software but as a matter of interest your original works as a gif animation and as an .avi file

**Egg Bramhill** · 12 December 2016, 05:33 PM

I've looked at this some more and the maximum bitmap width 1638px. Widen it to 1639 and it either dissappears or becomes single coloured. Try it with the Xara default bitmap.

If you really need to be this width you'll need to cut the images in half and create bitmap copies spread over the page.

**cadudesun** · 12 December 2016, 11:38 PM

Many many thanks for the feedback and all information!
Indeed, after shorten the width the SWF was created properly.
I tested the SWF in After Effects and its compatibility is great (http://i.imgur.com/MzsdLtn.png).
All the best,
Cadu

**Egg Bramhill** · 12 December 2016, 11:53 PM

Glad I could have helped and you've sorted it

**cadudesun** · 14 December 2016, 03:24 PM

Hi Egg,

I would appreciate a further help from you.
Although I could use the Xara SWF in After Effects, I have problems to open it in CrazyTalk Animator software. I opened a support ticket there and the answer I received is:

"There are some limitations on the types of SWF you can import [in CrazyTalk]. Make sure the SWF does not contain any scripting or non-standard tags. If you are able, open it up in Flash or another SWF editor and make sure it is just a simple frame by frame animation and then it should work fine".

Do you know how could I check if SWF generated by Xara "does not contain any scripting or non-standard tags", and confirm it is a "simple frame by frame animation".

Many thanks for assistance,
Cadu