Tips for rendering Flash to .mov

[TFX]

Since apparently QuickTime is the only way you can render the innards of movie clips to a raster movie, I was curious what tips there are to getting it to look smooth as a movie file. David Firth's Flash movies rendered out smoothly to movie files, but when I do stuff, it usually looks choppy and stuff, even with no raster elements in it to slow it down.

Is there any way to do render it in HD without the framerate dragging through the floor?

[snowclouds]

I am sorry to say this but...

Screw(+ditch) QT and use HC 2 w/ DivX 720 HD codec !

From my experience, I once made a oversphisticated flash animation with well over 40 layers of goodies per scene,

lots of special effects ( especially blur- I tried a depth of field fx and o_O), all models fully IK'ed, textured ( + base gradient layer), and animated ( walking, arm, head movements...etc).

What happened was - my teacher asked me to export mine in QT... and it then ended up like crap.
The movie ended up barely 3-4 fps on animation preset. I've even tried exporting it on 2.2 GHz quad + Radeon HD 4 series school computers and still - no difference and still looks crap.

so what i did here was i simply wrote a block of code so that the root of the movie can be paused and played on a keypress, then, I used Hypercam w/ the DivX 720p HD settings to record the window of the playing swf.

Results were astronomically better - nearly the same quality as QT animation preset yet framerate is increased to 30 FPS / standard NTSC...

Well... you can use QT as you wish, but I recommend you ONLY limit it to small and simple animations. like madness or pico or something. If you are using QT - AVOID special effects.

srry about the lengthy speech - that's all I've gotta say

[TFX]

Thank you very much for the reply!

I actually had FRAPS from when I had purchased it half a decade for WoW movies and it works GREAT for capturing Flash footage in-browser. Thanks a ton!

[snowclouds]

Well good luck then..

I think I still have a copy of Fraps i used ages ago and back in the days Fraps didn't work on local flash players ( it only works in-game and browser-based flash ). I'm not sure if Fraps will do today but if it will then that is good.

o and DivX HD codec series aren't the only ones, i simply find it easy and user-friendly ( before DivX I used Cinepak - half the quality + square 2 the size)