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Is .SWF my only option for high quality animated banner?


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So kinda misleading as I know that you can animate banners by moving pngs with html 5 but alas i am no coder.

I designed a banner/header for a simple website in Photoshop, Imported layers to After effects and animated it. Then i saved it as a SWF and the file size was too large. So then i saved it as a H.264 Movie file bringing the file size down amazingly without losing any quality. I then imported the movie into flash an re exported it as a SWF again.

So after the pain of figuring all this out I was thinking... Is SWF my only option? Are there other ways of playing a video/banner on repeat just by using the movie file using code? Or a way to convert my movie to html 5? 

Any points or slaps in the right direction would be much appreciated. Because i feel like a noob :(

 

Thanks!
 

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I'd suggest making a html5 animated banner but if you're lazy.. why not just convert your swf file: https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/ ?

 

It also has a Adobe flash extenstion so you can convert to html5 in Adobe Flash itself: https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/extension.html

 

 

Edit: It seems you just have a animation made my using images like a video does...

 So instead use the H.264 video and embed it into html5 :P

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It might be worth clarifying what you mean by a banner.

 

You may be talking about a slider/slideshow effect, in which case going the Flash/Video route is the wrong direction. There's many scripts that you can get that do this with little coding (normally just some HTML).

http://blog.platinastudio.com/40-best-free-premium-jqueryjavascript-sliders-banner-rotators-carousels-and-galleries-plugins/

 

Though you shouldn't be using flash for anything on the web beyond actual videos and even then you still only want that as a fallback option for legacy users.

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