Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

Are you answering the comments ?? or is your job to be the undertaker ????

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I can understand no longer supporting the program but completely removing access to Animate is awful! I use Animate for my job and to personally create my own animations I have almost 2 decades of FLA. files that I’m going to completely lose access to.

This is a terrible mistake!! DO NOT END SUPPORT FOR ANIMATE! - many productions and studios still use this software daily to create beloved series like Hey Duggee and Maddie+Triggs for CBeeBies, among others. Not to metion private filmakers and animators. The disruption this will cause to the animation industry is insane … and to top it off by suggesting people look into Adobe After FX instead is just insulting. The fuctionality and UI of both softwares are completely different. Animate is the only software by adobe that actually stands out and stands the test of time, keeping users. Please reconsider this decision, or at least make it open source for film and animation preservation purposes.

I use Animate since 2013. We are developing 10 Apps in 7 languages for Windows, MacOS, IOS and Android. We just developed an APP we worked 13 Month.

What are you talking about ???

To move to after effects ????
to move to Adobe Express ???

You have NO clue, what that is doing with an company that is paying Subscription for over 12 Years.

We are using Animate to build APPS, with Harman, So its NOT about animations.

Exporting 300 Animations to MP4 is a solution for an APP ???????

Believe me. I will quit every Adobe Application in my company

And I will spread what Adobe is doing with customers

So tell me what I should do ??????

How long is Adobe Animate on my computer ? How long can I use it ????

its a disaster

are you insane.

I use Animate daily for work, what am I supposed to do now? Don’t remove access to the software! 

This is really dumb and a waste. 

Personally, I expected this and am happy that we decided to use Flash CS instead of Animate for the next 2 years'  production. When that is finished, maybe Tahoma. Or CS still. Open Source.

Definately not going near anything Adobe again if I can avoid it. Animate has been handled really bad and we users has been treated worse. So many have given so much time to this software and to Adobe and now we are treated like dirt as a thank you. I was so angry last month that I cancelled subscription of CC which I've had for as long as it existed. I'm glad I did, otherwise I would feel a 100 times more angry today.

I have been using this software since it was FutureSplash in 1996 and it was love at first sight. It's really sad that it got handed over to people without the competence and insights to take care of it and the community the best way. 

Replace with After Effects? Only someone really ignorant or uninterested could suggest this. 

Anyway, even my Macromedia Flash 8 still works fine. Flash CS5.5 and CS6 can open all new Animate fla:s if you still have any of those, otherwise export for older Flash from Animate and to XFL just in case. 

Sad and such a stupid waste. 

Goodbye Adobe. Let's if you survive free Affinity, Da Vinci, Tahoma, Krita, Blender... I hope not. 

Awful. I have been using Flash since Macromedia 2005, pre-Adobe acquisition. 

I did not think it was possible for me to dislike Adobe even more than I already do. I will aggressively condemn Adobe at every opportunity with people in my network. Absolutely disgusted.

At some point, there won't be any apps left that make paying a monthly subscription worthwhile. I stopped using Dreamweaver. A few years back it was Fireworks. I sometimes find myself using macOS Preview instead of Acrobat. Now, Animate is going away... Which one is next? Maybe it's time to think about some other options besides Creative Cloud.