AE and Flash

I just stumbled across Steve Kilisky's After Effects Blog. The latest article describes a way to preserve keyframe data between After Effects and Flash. This relatively inexpensive component sounds like it has some interesting potential (at least until Adobe better integrates Flash and AE!) J

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to preserve keyframe data when moving between AE and Flash instead of having to be limited to SWF or FLV as the interchange format? Now that Adobe and Macromedia are one company, we can begin to address these needs similar to the way AE began to integrate in a rich manner with Photoshop (and later Illustrator, Premiere Pro [and LiveMotion :-o]) when Adobe acquired After Effects via Aldus (the hidden jewel in that transaction in my opinion of course).

In the mean time, Drew Trujillo (dr. woohoo) emailed me to let me know about an After Effects 2 Flash transform keyframe converter he developed.