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

[AB007]

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?

Many thanks 

[kglad]

how much ram do you have?

[AB007]

16 GB

[Nick Gioia]

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

[AB007]

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

[_keyframer]

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.

[AB007]

I'll proceed in that way in that case, thanks for the insight

[Nick Gioia]

Did you ever get this problem figured out?

[AB007 · Accepted solution]

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

[kglad]

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

[AB007]

What spec computer should I use for it to work smoothly?

[kglad]

test a few, for example, by enlisting friends.

[AB007]

What spec do you use?

[kglad]

most importantly, 32 gb ram:

[AB007]

That's a helpful insight for the future. I'll see about locating a device with 32GB of RAM for a smoother experience. Thank you

[iamdjh1988]

I am having some difficult crashing. Nothing out of the ordinary other than I will do some work, sometimes fairly simple. And it just crashes. The recovery file comes up and mostly the file is there but the work i have done as of recent is gone. I have not got a real take on why it is doing this so if there are some steps to alleviate, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
MacBook Pro
2017
3.5 Ghz dual-processor
16GB 2133 MHz
Ventura 13.6.3

[kglad]

check your ram usage to see if that's the problem.