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calisan_el
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December 27, 2017
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RIP Flash!

  • December 27, 2017
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I guess it is nothing new ,but as a 20 years professional in the business I should admit that Adobe had managed to kill the most user friendly tool for the daily animator.

Flash was the key to create the most sophisticated products and I still really cant find a match. Altough it had been outdated and it lacked new features I had been able to use it at least for the test of the final product.

Lately I installed Animate CC and tried using it ,but unfortunately understood that the good old days are over. There are a lot of points (no positive updates on timeline, new ease usage but not good, motion tween still sucks so have to continue with classic tween etc.) ,but I dont want to go on one by one. Instead I really want to hear about your opinions.

The only good thing is new brushes, other than that, RIP Flash!

What do u think?

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    Correct answer ClayUUID

    So let me get this straight-- you start off by proclaiming what a great tool Flash was, then proclaim it dead because Animate hasn't changed enough.

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    calisan_elAuthor
    Participant
    January 9, 2018

    Here is an issue:

    . I used to import flv files and make animations on the video and then export as a swf file.

    Now,

    . In animate; I could still import flv and use it whereas the media encoder cc does not export flv. They recommend using h264 ,but animate cc can not export h264 videos.

    Total chaos!!!

    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    January 9, 2018

    A common workflow for adding animation to video is to animate on top of a rough version of the video, export just the animation, then combine that animation with the original high quality video, in Premiere of After Effects for example. That approach works well with H.264 video.

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    calisan_elAuthor
    Participant
    December 29, 2017

    You got me!!!

    What I tried to mention was that, Flash did not evolved to a tool it should be. New versions of Flash and Animate has changed ,but not in the right direction. It lacked the simple, user friendly approach in every update. Once I was so comfortable using Flash and now I can't use the tools of animate. Of course I still can use the old tools ,but in time I needed new tools and what I get as new tools are not from the soul of the old Flash. Let's take motion tweens as an example; the "old" classic tween supplied most of our needs. Whereas I could never use the new motion tween. It is so complex, I could not be able to do what I expected, as an old flash user I was really stucked.

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 29, 2017

    you can still use the old tweens.  ie, you're not 'stuck' using motion tweens.

    but complaints about flash/animate becoming too complex for designers have been frequent, at least, since cs5 when as3 was introduced and especially after cs6 when as2 was no longer supported.

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    ClayUUIDCorrect answer
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    December 27, 2017

    So let me get this straight-- you start off by proclaiming what a great tool Flash was, then proclaim it dead because Animate hasn't changed enough.

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