Various NLE support SWF movies. premiere and after effects both support it. SWF export allows for better quality and perfect transparency on projects to be composited (99% of all professional end projects are composited)

its also more convenient to work with a 100kb swf file than a 1GB transparent AVI.

SWF ca also be imported back into flash and further modified/refined using flash's tools.

for example, one could do principle character animation in CTA, export to swf.
then import that sequence to flash and further enhance it. hide joints, add additional cycles, maybe even work around CTA's shortcoming when it comes to characters with long hair. i wound be perfectly fine animating bad characters in CTA, importing the sequences into flash, and animating the long hair onto the imported sequence.




Ibis Fernandez   |   (available for hire)
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Professional Animator, Filmmaker | Creator of the highest quality (modular) G2 rigs for cartoon animator and developer of Toon Titan and Puppet Producer 
Author of Flash Animation and Cartooning: A Creative Guide
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