Multiple cue points at the same time. From After Effects to Flash

Question

I have created a composition in after effects with a video layer and 4 different shape layers. The shapes all move around tracking objects on the video. I want to be able to turn the visible property of these shapes on and off at will during playback.

I have converted their key frames to cue points, and then exported the flv. The shapes have key frames at the same time throughout the video resulting in multiple cue points at the exact same time.

In flash I am only able to listen to the cue point that is dispatched from the lowest layer of my after effects composition. So for example on frame 10, layer 1 and 3 both have a key frame changing the position of the shape. Using the script in after effects I've converted these to cue points. So I now have 2 cue points on frame 10. My program in flash will only hear the cue point dispatched by layer 1, and seemingly ignore the cue point from layer 3.

Is there anyway for me to listen to multiple cue points at the same time? Or am I going to have to go about this another way entirely?

Answer 1

I can't find any information that multiple simultaneous cue points isn't supported but trying to add two cue point at the same time code in Adobe Media Encoder gives an error – indicating that you should probably avoid it.

Another solution would be to collect all the transformations for a given keyframe and collect them in the parameter list for a single cue point. An example could be:

layerChangeCue

• layer1 : "x:123;y:456;s:0.78"
• ⋮
• layer4 : "x:123;y:456;s:0.78"