Comments on: After Effects CS3 SWF Export Bug

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:39:54 +0000

In that case, I would recommand you to export in .MOV and then convert it in SWF.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:29:02 +0000

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.

By: illroy77

illroy77 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:00:31 +0000

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!

By: Kaos

Kaos — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:23:52 +0000

The Spotlight solution is for Mac, right? then, what would be the solution for PC? i’d appreciate this immensely, thanks

By: Badqual

Badqual — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:32:05 +0000

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

By: redhedded1

redhedded1 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:46:10 +0000

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.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:34:06 +0000

I had tried everything…and then I read the last post. CLOSE THE FINDER WINDOW!

By: Daniel Judson

Daniel Judson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:31:55 +0000

After you deal with spotlight privacy, CLOSE THE FINDER WINDOW displaying you destination folder, otherwise FINDER is looking at it!

By: Paulina Jasso

Paulina Jasso — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:34:36 +0000

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 : )

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:22:25 +0000

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 :)

By: TylerJackson

TylerJackson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:53:16 +0000

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.

By: lizzard

lizzard — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:27:07 +0000

I tried the spotlight but it only made it export a little futher untill it gets the error……..what else can i do!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!?? thanks!

By: g3ck0

g3ck0 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:41:30 +0000

thx 4 the headz up with spotlite, now i dont have 2 pull my haiir out with AE

By: myrhax

myrhax — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:14:43 +0000

Thx 4 the tip (the spotlight…)

You saved me

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:29:08 +0000

I’m in the same boat here! I’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing and nothing works.

Any suggestions please?

Thank you.

By: Niels

Niels — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:29:57 +0000

Hi,
Great job! It worked for me, with the spotlight method…
Thanks a lot mate!!!

By: john

john — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:40:27 +0000

I found a much simply workaround, either change the export path or delete the jpeg file.

By: JackDaniels

JackDaniels — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:53:09 +0000

Hello

I did as told above, but still having this problem, still cant export swf.
If someone got solution, pleas share

thanx

By: shen

shen — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:32:08 +0000

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.

By: shen

shen — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:24:10 +0000

i am having the same problem….. can somebody help please???