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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0
User Guide
Masks Only Add mode and Difference mode are supported. If multiple masks are applied
to a layer, they must all have the same mode to be supported. Partial Opacity and the mask
Inverted option are supported only if Add mode is specified. Nonzero Mask feathers are
unsupported.
Effects Path Text is the only supported effect. Several Path Text options are unsupported,
including Composite on Original, Fill and Stroke/Options/Fill Over Stroke, and
Advanced/Mode/Difference. Multiple effects per layer are unsupported.
Adobe Illustrator files Only stroked paths and filled paths in CMYK or RGB color spaces
are supported. Note that if Rasterize is selected for Unsupported Features, unsupported
elements in an Illustrator file will result in the rasterization of only the layer to which the
Illustrator file is source, not the entire composition frame.
The source for each layer in the composition is rendered and added to the SWF file as a
JPEG-compressed bitmap, unless the layer is a solid or its source is an Adobe Illustrator file.
If the layer source is an Illustrator file, the source is automatically converted to the corre-
sponding native SWF elements. The Collapse Transformations option for nested composi-
tions is not supported—the composition used as source for a layer in the exported
composition will be rendered and added to the SWF file as a JPEG-compressed bitmap.
Including object names in a SWF file
If the Include Object Names option is selected in the SWF Settings dialog box, the layers,
masks, and effects in the SWF movie have the same names they have in After Effects. The
layer, mask, or effect name will be either the default name given by After Effects or the
name you specified. If individual objects were not exported for a given frame (because the
composition frame was rasterized), names cannot be written out for that frame.
Each mask is exported as a separate SWF object. The name of each object is the Layer name
followed by the Mask name, with no space separating the names. If all masks are
Difference mode, then one SWF object is exported, and the name is the Layer name.
Each Path Text character is exported as a separate SWF object. The name of each object
will be the Layer name followed by the Effect name followed by the character index
(starting at 0). No space separates the names or the character index.
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