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Rocket Gord
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June 17, 2020
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Is there a way to acquire Flash CS3?

  • June 17, 2020
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Obviously I don't mean pirating. I'm looking to get a few copies for staff. I've vetted out several versions of Flash and Animate, and CS3 works the smoothest with our pipeline, so now I'm trying to get more copies of it. Is there any way to do this with a CC subscription? Or purchase seperately?

I wish I could use Adobe Animate, last time I attempted using it it seems to be a cocktail of problems. (But has great export featues!) Which is too bad, Flash used to be such a powerful tool.

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    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
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    June 17, 2020

    Yeah, Animate seems to be in a downward death spiral.

     

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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      Rocket GordAuthor
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      June 17, 2020

      It's really unfortunate. Photoshop seems to be getting better and better with each iteration. And I'm happy with all my other Adobe tools, but Flash/Animate seems to be the exception.

      There's a niche in the industry to have an effective, and designer friendly animation tool (Harmony is great. . . but quite a bit more complex than most people need!) Flash was the perfect tool for the job! What we need is Animate to be the best version of Flash, rather than, well, rather than what it currently is. : (

      That said, I'm probably SOL for getting copies of CS3. . . Might have to go back to the drawing board and see what other solutions we can come up with. : (

      n. tilcheff
      n. tilcheff
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      June 17, 2020

      I'm more or less in the same boat, mate. Stuck with CS6.

       

      I've invested 20+ years perfecting my skills and 10 extending Flash and trying to contribute to the understanding and refinement of the processes that can help produce better-quality animation.

      It's truly heart-breaking to witness how this legendary software is being destroyed.

       

      Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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