Importing and Working with a Video in Animate CC

[gus7777]

Hi,

I'd like to import a video and work with it in Animate, to create a simple timeline animation - fading the videos out, fading text and background colors in, etc.) 

I'd like to do this using timeline animation only - without any programming.  

I've converted my video to .mp4 using encoder, but when I bring it into Animate - I can't do anything with it.  If I embed a video, I am able to expand the video into the timeline - but it gives me a message saying that Flash 23 doesn't support the video.

Much appeciated,

[just.emma]

After Effects or Premiere would be better tools for video editing.

[macpawel · Accepted solution]

You can import images sequence into Movie Clip and use it as normal object with Animate. Then add some texts, fading (alpha) effects and thats it. Just.emma is right to edit video use Premiere or After Effects. You can also prepare simple animation using Photoshop. Just open video in Photoshop and add text, effects and then using timeline you can add some animations - simple animations

Pawel

[Colin Holgate]

You can do all the animating and fading in other layers. Instead of fading down the video to reveal some graphics, you would need to start with transparent graphics and fade them in on top of the video.

Once you have all the animations layers ready you would do File/Export/Export Video, but don't send it to Adobe Media Encoder. Instead you would take the MOV that you get and you would combine that with your original video, the one that you made the MP4 from. The animation MOV will have alpha transparency, so you can put the two videos together in either AE or Premiere, with the animation export being the top layer.