After Effects CS3 SWF Export Bug
Posted by brooks in After Effects on Jul 21st, 2007 | 29 commentsAnyone know if After Effects SWF Export feature is broken? Every time I try to export a SWF file I just see this:
Any insights would be appreciated (I’m talking to you Steve Kilisky :) ).
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I’m having the same problem, weird thing is the first time i exported it it was fine but every time after i’ve been getting that same error. Did you ever figure it out?
Same here…It never worked for me in AE CS3…I get that same error EVERY TIME! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated…
I have the same problem… what I can’t figure out is why it happens at a random frame every time…
i am having the same problem….. can somebody help please???
ok guys here is the solution i found in another blog.and it worked for me…hope it solve yours too…
Here’s what’s happening:
1. AE creates a temporary JPEG file during creation of the SWF.
2. It then attempts to delete the file.
3. Inbetween creating and deleting the file, some other program has grabbed the file and is trying to use it. (Hence the “file is busy” message.)
4. AE can’t delete the file.
Either your anti-virus program is at fault, or Spotlight is doing it. So you should:
A. Turn off any anti-virus software.
B. Go into the System Prefs > Spotlight, go to the Privacy tab, and add the folder you are using. This way Spotlight won’t try to index the temp files at the same time that AE is trying to delete them.
Hello
I did as told above, but still having this problem, still cant export swf.
If someone got solution, pleas share
thanx
I found a much simply workaround, either change the export path or delete the jpeg file.
Hi,
Great job! It worked for me, with the spotlight method…
Thanks a lot mate!!!
I’m in the same boat here! I’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing and nothing works.
Any suggestions please?
Thank you.
Thx 4 the tip (the spotlight…)
You saved me
thx 4 the headz up with spotlite, now i dont have 2 pull my haiir out with AE
I tried the spotlight but it only made it export a little futher untill it gets the error……..what else can i do!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!?? thanks!
for all of you who did the spotlight trick and it still doesn’t work, disable all of your anti virus software as well and try it again. I had to do both before it worked but now AE renders smooth as ice.
You are a genius!!!
1. Disable Antivirus program.
2. Tell Spotlight which folder not to mess with.
3. Import the swf I’ve been trying to import for three days.
4. Thank you :)
Hello !! thanx for the tip everyone!! but i still can’t do it and im a new usser in mac leopard so i dont know where could be my antivirus, so i can try both of the solutions. i thought mac dosent have any antivirus.
HELP ME PLEASE I REALLY NEED TO DO EXPORT TO SWF!!!
THANKX : )
After you deal with spotlight privacy, CLOSE THE FINDER WINDOW displaying you destination folder, otherwise FINDER is looking at it!
I had tried everything…and then I read the last post. CLOSE THE FINDER WINDOW!
Yeah and you get this resolved for a thanks for the 40 mb swf’s, after effects. CS3 is still very buggy. Wondering why I spent $1000 on this pile of crap.
what about Export/adobe flash SWF/ than you save your project .SWF, SWF. Settings change the Ignore to Rasterize didn’t. from there you can work to spotlights.
tnx
The Spotlight solution is for Mac, right? then, what would be the solution for PC? i’d appreciate this immensely, thanks
The spotlight solution IS for mac and works like a charm! you have to disable ANY antivirus apps on the PC! or try saving the .swf file path to another location. I tried both on my girl’s PC and I’m not sure which one worked but I did both and got it to work! but Like I told her PCs aint built for this shit!
Thanks so much for this workaround!!! These random bugs waste so much time and money, not to mention all of the bald spots we have from tearing our hair out.
In that case, I would recommand you to export in .MOV and then convert it in SWF.
There are 2 was to solve this:
delete all files exported by after effects (swf, html, runactive..), and relaunch the program
or creat a new folder, and export it there…
:)
Was still having problems on Mac after using the spotlight fix, (no antivirus to disable), until I stopped trying to save it to the desktop and created a new folder/crossed my fingers the whole time. Hopefully this will work in the future too and wasn’t a lucky break :)
Thanks for the spotlight fix. I’m new to AE and was pulling out the few hairs I have left.
I’m using the PC and was having the same error message come up whenever I tried to export to a .swf file. After trying all of these and having them not work, I went to Edit > Purge > All
And it saved fine :)
When all else fails, definitely restart AE. I did everything Shen said an with the spotlight and anti-virus and it still wasn’t working. Then I restarted AE and my life just got a whole lot better. Thank all!!!
I turned off the antivirus (nod32) then exported well!
thanks dude!