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AB007
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January 21, 2023
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How do I create a 5-10 min complex animation in Adobe Animate without it crashing?

  • January 21, 2023
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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?

 

Many thanks 

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      Correct answer AB007

      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
      Community Expert
      February 3, 2023

      Did you ever get this problem figured out?

       

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      AB007AuthorCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      February 9, 2023

      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
      kglad
      Community Expert
      February 9, 2023

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

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        Nick Gioia
        Community Expert
        January 24, 2023

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

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        AB007Author
        Inspiring
        February 9, 2023

        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
        _keyframer
        Community Expert
        February 13, 2023

        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.

         

        Animator and content creator for Animate CC
        kglad
        kglad
        Community Expert
        January 21, 2023

        how much ram do you have?

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          AB007Author
          Inspiring
          February 9, 2023

          16 GB

           

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