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tnbnicer
tnbnicer
Inspiring
March 26, 2018
Question

Is it possible to convert this Flash movie to Html5?

  • March 26, 2018
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Hi, I'm new to this forum and have yet to get a Creative Cloud license, which brings me to my question. I want to convert a Flash animation to a Canvas HTML5 page with Animate, but I'm skeptical that it will succeed in this case. The Flash specs are: Flash 8, AS1 + AS2, large vector graphic background image. It's a clock that runs backwards and has thirteen hours (65 minutes per hour) for every twelve, and is very very accurate. The clock face is half transparent, slowly floating back and forth and bouncing against the screen edges. To stop and start the floating action, you click on the clock. I wonder if converting is even possible.

Does anyone have a qualified view on whether the animation can be converted? Someone who has experience using Adobe Animate to convert Flash content. I would really appreciate it.

I realize it may be hard to form an opinion without seeing the example. Regrettably a moderator rejected the online link, so I have had to edit this post.

Creating the Flash movie took a month. Failure to convert it is not an option for me. Either it is possible, perhaps possible in the future, or not possible.

Sorry I can't link.

Thanks.

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albertd9194959
albertd9194959
Inspiring
March 26, 2018

Hello....

Visual elements will remain the same within the conversion (all symbols are retained), action script will not, it is commented out and you will need to convert it into javascript. ( I haven't had any issue so far with visual elements not converting correctly )

Regards,

tnbnicer
tnbnicerAuthor
Inspiring
March 26, 2018

I saw a demo of Animate that looked similar to Flash, with timelines and a symbol library. Are there custom JavaScripts which you can insert to move objects? I would need for instance to rotate the hour, minute and second hands of a clock.

Is JavaScript capable of multitasking? Ie. moving the clockhands and at the same time moving the clock in small increments across the panorama, while also color-cycling the sky?

I would wait a few years and let developers improve Animate. But in a few years there won't be anymore Flash. What you describe sounds to me like SVG and little else at the moment.

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
March 26, 2018

Adobe Animate is just a new name for Flash Professional, the interface is exactly the same.

To create something as HTML5 Canvas you would use all of the graphics from your AS2 FLA, but you would need to do the code in JavaScript. The style of JavaScript is similar to ActionScript 3, which is somewhat different to ActionScript 2.

From your description, I don't think it would be very hard to write the code, but being as it would be Canvas, that means everything you're seeing is a bitmap, and the performance of a large stage size might not be as good as the vector version playing with Flash Player. But, it would be worth trying.

Bani Verma
Bani Verma
Legend
March 26, 2018

Moving this query to Adobe Animate CC - Home​

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