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April 9, 2019
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Converting Complex Flash Interactive Animations to HTML5

  • April 9, 2019
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With the demise of Flash, I have been tasked with finding a way to convert a reasonably large number of complex interactive flash animations, built with a lot of action script and ran as SWF files embedded into published SWF Captivate projects, into a purely HTML5 format. Clearly, I can't just export the project as MTML5 since the swf elements would be incompatible. I have tried importing them into Adobe Animate, but the conversion process goes wrong and breaks the animations so that, for example, screens that would be seen when the user clicks on a button (and there are quite a lot of them) just cycle around without any way to stop them. I am not a programmer and never learnt ActionScript and as yet I have not learnt how to use Adobe Animate, although I am willing to give it a go, IF I can be sure that the effort of learning the package will result in my being able to get all the animations working and hopefully won't have to rebuild them from scratch. OR, is there any other easy method of converting interactive Flash Animations to HTML5?

Thanks

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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April 9, 2019

If your animations were NOT interactive, the cheapest and fastest way to convert them to something usable in HTML5 would have been to simply record them as a Video Demo in Captivate as they played in the web browser.

However, since your animations are interactive that's not going to work because you would lose all interactivity.  There is no 'easy way' that I am aware of to convert SWF interactions into HTML5 interactions.

If these were created quite a while ago in earlier versions of Captivate then you may find that you can replicate quite a lot of the interactivity in default Captivate functionality.

If it is so complex that you need something like Animate to pull off the same functionality then that's probably going to mean completely rebuilding the animations from scratch.

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DSC_ChrisAuthor
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April 10, 2019

Hi Rod, been following your posts for some time, thanks for getting back to me and for your input. I figured your response was going to be the case. Guess I'm going to have to take a couple of crash courses in Animate and JavaScript.....thank heavens for Lynda.com.

Thanks again

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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April 10, 2019

Exchanging data between a HTML animation and Captivate has become easier with JS than it used to be in SWF times. That may be the positive side. Animate CC may sometimes be overkill, I still use Edge Animate (which is discontinued in favor of Animate) a lot for a quick animation….

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