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How do I create a 5-10 min complex animation in Adobe Animate without it crashing?

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I'm facing a really irritiating problem here. I've finally learned the techniques necessary to create animations of a style I had in mind for a project I'm working on. I thought Adobe Animate would be suitable. But unfortunately, I'm not even half-way through one of the animations (I've animated 4 scenes, in total approx 2 min) and its crashing every time I try to preview or export it. It is complicated, with many symbols and layers... But it's organised and it's as complicated as it needs to be. It's not 'messy'. There are motion tweens, symbols comprising of 'puppets' with nested groups; I haven't even added sound yet... But that level of complexity is what I need. Is Adobe Animate the wrong programme to use? Have I wasted my time and money? Is there a way around this irritiating block?

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I ended up having to simplfy some of the moving background elements... Rather than having many symbols moving independently in the background, I goruped them as one symbol that I can paste once; prior to this I just copied and pasted elements repeatedly to cover the background as needed But I realised that this was too heavy for the program. So, more efficient with symbols is the solution that worked for me

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Nick Gioia

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Did you ever get this problem figured out?

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I ended up having to simplfy some of the moving background elements... Rather than having many symbols moving independently in the background, I goruped them as one symbol that I can paste once; prior to this I just copied and pasted elements repeatedly to cover the background as needed But I realised that this was too heavy for the program. So, more efficient with symbols is the solution that worked for me

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kglad

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it's not too "heavy for the program", it was too "heavy for your computer".

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Nick Gioia

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You can export it in parts and then edit it together in adobe premiere.

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AB007Author

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If I have to do this, I shall resort to it; I'd rather avoid the hassle if possible. But it's a back-up plan, thank you

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_keyframer

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This is the way it's done for almost all animation studios. We never ever had a single FLA document for anything longer than 30-60 seconds. It's a file management issue as well as simply a better way to work - especially with a team. Much easier to divide your project into scenes or shots and have dedicated documents just for those shots - export them to video and then stitch together in Premiere Pro or similar.

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kglad

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how much ram do you have?

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AB007Author

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16 GB

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