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n. tilcheff
Valorous Hero
Character Designer and Animator, Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team
n. tilcheff
Valorous Hero
Character Designer and Animator, Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team
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Dec 25, 2025
07:17 PM
1 Upvote
@kglad I had some time to do a little digging today, but noticed that you've locked the other thread, where we were discussing the availability of CS6 in CC. https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/download-older-versions-of-photoshop/td-p/8196186 There are plenty of historical links which point to the fact that until 2019 CS6 apps were available with the CC subscription. https://www.highlander.co.uk/blog/installing-old-versions-adobe-cc-app
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Dec 25, 2025
12:57 PM
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Two separate LLMs confirm my claim that Flash CS2 has never existed: LLM1 Based on the information available, Adobe Flash Professional CS2 as a product name never officially existed. The version naming sequence around that time was as follows: Macromedia Flash 8.0 was the last version before Adobe acquired Macromedia. After the acquisition, Adobe released Flash CS3, which was version 9.0. There is no official Adobe Flash CS2 product or version number. The naming jumped from Macromedia Flash 8.0 directly to Adobe Flash CS3 (v9.0). Claims or references to Flash CS2 appear to be erroneous or unofficial. LLM2 Here’s a clear summary of the historical record regarding Adobe/Macromedia Flash authoring software and whether a Flash CS2 product ever existed: 1. There was no product officially named “Flash CS2” The Flash authoring tool lineage goes like this: Macromedia Flash 8 — released in September 2005, last version under the Macromedia name. It had two editions: Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 (the one commonly used by designers/animators). (Wikipedia) After Adobe acquired Macromedia in late 2005, the next major release of the Flash authoring tool was Adobe Flash Professional CS3, released in 2007 and internally versioned as Flash 9. (Internet in a Box) There is no official release called “Adobe Flash CS2”, and no version of Flash was shipped under that name by Adobe. Contrary to the community thread you linked, Adobe never released Flash CS2 as a product. Claims that CS2 included Flash CS2 appear to be incorrect; the Adobe CS2 bundles did not include a Flash authoring program. (Wikipedia) 2. Why might people think “Flash CS2” existed? Adobe Creative Suite 2 (CS2) was released in April 2005 with products like Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, InDesign CS2, etc. — but it did not include a Flash authoring tool. The acquisition of Macromedia (and thus Flash) happened around the same period (Dec 2005), and Flash wasn’t integrated into Adobe’s CS line until CS3 (2007). (Wikipedia) The community thread’s reference to “Flash CS2” likely stems from confusion between Creative Suite 2 branding and the Macromedia Flash 8 product that existed around the same era. 3. Flash CS3 is actually Flash version 9 Adobe Flash Professional CS3 corresponds to version 9.0 of the Flash authoring tool — i.e., the numbering jumped from Macromedia Flash 8 (8.0) directly to Adobe Flash CS3 (9.0). (Internet in a Box) This is why Adobe’s own documentation and histories list Flash CS3 as version 9 in the Flash product timeline. Summary Product Name Release Year Version Number Notes Macromedia Flash 8 2005 8.0 Last Macromedia Flash authoring product. (Wikipedia) Adobe Flash Professional CS3 2007 9.0 First Adobe-branded Flash; part of Creative Suite. (Internet in a Box) Adobe Flash CS2 Never existed N/A No official product of this name or version number. Conclusion No, “Flash CS2” did not exist as an official product. The last pre-Adobe version was Macromedia Flash 8, and the first Adobe version was Flash CS3 (version 9.0). (Wikipedia) The community thread conflates Creative Suite 2 (CS2) with the Flash authoring tool, but Adobe only began bundling Flash in its Creative Suite starting with CS3. (Wikipedia) If you want, I can also list all major Flash authoring releases and their version numbers in order (Flash 1 through Animate CC). ---
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Dec 21, 2025
03:13 PM
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were premiere and illustrator cs6 offered to everyone with a cc subscription? By @kglad I don't know. Most likely not. To be clear: I don't care about Premiere, Illustrator or any other Adobe program. I don't follow their development closely, I'm not interested in their new features and that is why I cannot speak about them and their history. If there is a non-Adobe alternative, such as Audacity, I will always use the alternative, even though I have full access to the whole CC suite. Flash CS6 was available in the 'older versions' drop-down for years for all CC subscribers, because of the lack of AS2 support, armature and other features in Flash CC (later renamed to Animate CC). Then it was removed without any prior warning, probably in 2019 or 2018.
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Dec 21, 2025
02:36 PM
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I don't know about other CS6 apps. I only use Flash and have a couple of others installed - Premiere, Illustrator - which I don't care about, but have to use occasionally. Flash CS6 was available for a very long time.
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Dec 21, 2025
02:30 PM
I would like to support @HelenWLee in this: Flash CS6 was available as part of the original CC subscription and it was promised that it would always be available as it was the last Flash which could open AS2 FLAs. Then, without a warning CS6 was removed and Adobe didn't even apologize for blatantly breaking an important promise. This was a major turning point for me and a sign that Adobe are not to be trusted about anything at all. After that I've always considered CC to be a trap which has to be avoided as much as possible. @kglad, it seems that your memory is misleading you in this case.
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Dec 15, 2025
08:52 PM
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Things to try: Set all your displays to 100% display scaling via Windows settings. If you have multiple displays, switch to single display. When you try switching to WinTab or Windows Ink, make sure you do this by enabling/disabling Windows Ink checkbox in the tablet driver AND choose the corresponding setting in Animate. You may want to restart Windows after making each of these changes.
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Dec 09, 2025
03:10 AM
It's a pan. The only thing that you can do to make it look smoother is to increase the frame rate or to add directional blur to the background.
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Nov 30, 2025
05:05 PM
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Well done! A good way of doing this kind of clean up work is to use straight lines with the magnet tool on and always work in outline mode or with hairline thickness, so that you can see everything. Another good approach is to start with a rectangle and modify that by dragging corners and edges. Flash is very flexible - holding down Ctrl will let you add a vertex as you click-and-drag a line. It's worth getting familiar with these techniques before attempting to work on any substantial project.
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Nov 30, 2025
04:20 PM
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As people on reddit suggested to you, switch to outlines to check if your shape is closed. To do so, click on the color rectangle next to the layer name in the timeline: When in outline mode, zoom in to inspect your stroke for gaps. The Paint Bucket tool has some additional settings which may be useful or not:
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Nov 28, 2025
01:35 PM
You can't do the compositing in Animate. The actor needs to be filmed using blue/green screen. Then the video can be imported into Animate and used as a guide for the animation. When complete, the animation without the video - in logical groups to allow proper layering - will be exported either as PNG sequences or MOVs with alpha and final compositing will be done in a video editor such as Premiere or a compositing program such as After Effects.
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Nov 23, 2025
11:39 AM
One mask layer, but with many frames in it. Develop the mask over time.
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Nov 19, 2025
01:58 PM
Try adding stage.quality = "low"; to the first frame of your main timeline.
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Nov 14, 2025
09:00 PM
Grab this FLA to see how I did it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_Z6DHNOfH36LQEQFul1jM9rrkcKKT57/view?usp=sharing To see the Shape Hints you may need to choose View > Show Shape Hints from the menu.
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Nov 13, 2025
03:27 PM
Experiment with adding more Shape Hints - starting with top-right and going counter clock-wise. Organize your keyframes better, so that you don't transition from a rectangle to a triangle.
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Nov 06, 2025
10:50 PM
Read this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/animate-2025/m-p/14914790#M378610
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Nov 05, 2025
12:38 AM
Adjust the alpha value of the colors: A: 0% in the picture below.
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Oct 07, 2025
06:50 PM
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Use Edit Multiple Frames. Here, toward the bottom of the page, I wrore a detailed description how: https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/help-size-of-scenes-in-animate/td-p/15517490
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Oct 06, 2025
08:44 PM
What a truly idiotic requirement! Are you allowed to use the Free Transform tool? If so, draw horizontal or vertical lines and then rotate them.
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Oct 03, 2025
02:33 PM
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@gcrad That must be because you have Animate set to beginner's mode and they hide important tools from you. Click on the hamburger button in the top-right corner of the timeline and choose Customize Timeline Tools: Then add the Edit Multiple Frames button. With Edit Multiple Frames you move/transform visual content on the Stage over multiple frames. The audio keyframes will not be affected by this. If you need to retime the audio, just drag the keyframes in thetimeline.
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Oct 02, 2025
09:23 PM
Hi @gcrad The Edit Multiple Frames UX is not very intuitive, but logical once you know it. 1. Activate Edit Multiple Frames by pressing its button on the timeline. Select the span you want to work on by moving the markers. You can long-press and choose All frames, if you like. 2. Make sure only the layers that you need to modify are unlocked. 3. Choose Edit > Select All or make a box selection on the Stage. 4. Move or scale the selected using the Free Transform tool.
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Sep 23, 2025
04:02 PM
Hey @gcrad , The content in all scenes except for the first and last one was not matching the size of the stage. To be able to see your stage size and compose accordingly, make sure that in Preferences Stage Border is not hidden: There is also an option to toggle the stage view: This is not as handy as it may seem at first. Better see the content outside the stage while working. I've fixed your file. Grab it from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SaX1F3wZuN-8Kp_VLeFuxzWatS1u49mW/view?usp=sharing 1. I've scaled down all content using Edit Multiple Frames. 2. I've switched all your audio to Stream, so that it can be heard while scrubbing. You may need to make small adjustments to timing, adding a few frames here and there now that the audio can be heard. Good luck with your project!
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Sep 11, 2025
02:18 PM
@kglad Latest versions of Animate have issues opening older FLA files which are not corrupted at all. Re-saving the file in Flash CS6 format opens perfectly fine in AA24. Previous versions of Animate had intermittent issues with such older files, but those were fixed with updates at the time, while there was still some dev team behind Animate. I believe that these file compatibility issues / regressions are not intentional, but only a result of incompetence and the total lack of QA. @Typographist Animate is a wreck with hundreds of bugs and most likely abandoned. Try the oldest Animate version that you have access to - it may be able to open your files without the need to go through CS5.5 or CS6. (For example, AA 22.0.8 opens a complex Flash 8 FLA normally, while AA 23.0.2 can't open it at all. AA 24.0.7 opens it with some symbols missing and pops the message you posted earlier.) If you have SWFs for your old Flash files, you can just integrate Ruffle and that should easily take care of displaying them in modern browsers.
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Sep 08, 2025
02:03 AM
Most likely.
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Sep 07, 2025
11:18 PM
Only use Classic Tweens and forget about Motion Tweens, which are unmanageable and unusable.
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Sep 06, 2025
03:57 AM
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I remember some reports that in some of the versions drag and drop did not work. The version I tested with is AA 24.0.7 and it works there. Anyway... Animate has hundreds of bugs and no one is going to fix most of them. In the other thread that I linked earlier, @Mario_CR posted links to two threads on the OBS forums. It may be worth checking those and playing with your OBS settings to see if that can improve the situation. Good luck!
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Sep 05, 2025
06:40 PM
I believe that you're muddying the waters with a completely different problem here, mixing the original (driver) issue with a file format compatibility issue. 44 100 Hz, 16-bit audio in PCM WAV format is what should import without any difficulty. Try this attached WAV yourself. Use File > Import > Import to Stage, then add it to timeline and set to stream. You can also drag and drop the audio from Windows Explorer into Animate's timeline.
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Sep 04, 2025
04:28 PM
@Toby5C93 You're wasting your time and you are wrong. Layer Depth as implemented at the moment was never meant to be anything else - just a tick in the box in a new features spreadsheet. Animate has now been abandoned, and before that, since the name change, put into the hands of ignorant developers who literally destroyed it. Attached is a concept for a proper implementation of a perspective system I wrote in 2019 as part of a pre-release discussion upon a request from the person who was at the time the product manager of Animate. Read it. This is just one small example of the huge dysfunction.
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Sep 03, 2025
05:43 PM
Well... read the linked threads and decide for yourself. As far as I know drivers are not user specific, so creating a different user on your computer will not solve the issue. You may be successful by using a virtual machine for either of the incompatible programs or a separate computer. Good luck!
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