Adobe Animate شرح
Uwe Müller
I am not sure for other OSes. I suppose directory and folder are the same in all OSes. Directory used to be the name for folders in Windows in the earlier versions. It is now mostly changed to "folder". I did not use a mac in the earlier days so I am not sure what they called them then.
I've been having an issue with save times reaching 8 - 10 minutes when I have a duplicate window open.
When I say duplicate window I went up to the 'Window' menu and chose Duplicate window". This was so I could edit the file on my second monitor and still view it on the other.
i always recommend appending an increasing version number to the file name when using animate for several reasons, the most important of which you'll find if animate ever crashes while editing a fla. ie, that fla that was opened during the crash will often be corrupted, but the previous versions will not be corrupted so you never lose a lot of work (assuming you were saving after significant fla changes).
Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television series, online animation, websites, web applications, rich web applications, game development, commercials, and other interactive projects. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio video embedding, and ActionScript 3.0 scripting. Animations may be published for HTML5, WebGL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) animation and spritesheets, and legacy Flash Player (SWF) and Adobe AIR formats.[2] The developed projects also extend to applications for Android, iOS, Windows Desktop and MacOS.
It was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, and then renamed Macromedia Flash upon its acquisition by Macromedia. It served as the main authoring environment for the Adobe Flash platform, vector-based software for creating animated and interactive content. It was renamed Adobe Animate in 2016 to more accurately reflect its market position then, since over a third of all content created in Animate uses HTML5.[2][3][4]
The first version of Adobe Flash/Adobe Animate was FutureSplash Animator, a vector graphics and vector animations program released in May 1996. FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. With the implosion of the pen-oriented operating systems, it was ported to Microsoft Windows as well as Apple Inc.'s Classic Mac OS. In 1995, the company decided to add animation abilities to their product and to create a vector-based animation platform for World Wide Web; hence FutureSplash Animator was created. (At that time, the only way to deploy such animations on the web was through the use of Java.) The FutureSplash animation technology was used on websites such as MSN, The Simpsons website and Disney Daily Blast of The Walt Disney Company.[5][6]
In December 1996, Macromedia bought FutureWave and rebranded the product as Macromedia Flash, a brand name that continued for 8 major versions. Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia in 2005, and re-branded the product Adobe Flash Professional to distinguish it from the player, Adobe Flash Player. It was included as part of the Creative Suite of products from CS3 to CS6, until Adobe phased out the Creative Suite lineup in favor of Creative Cloud (CC).[7]
On December 1, 2015, Adobe announced that the program would be renamed Adobe Animate on its next major update. The move comes as part of an effort to disassociate the program from Adobe Flash Player, acknowledging its increased use for authoring HTML5 and video content, and an effort to begin discouraging the use of Flash Player in favor of web standards-based solutions.[8] The first version under the new name was released February 8, 2016.[1]
Hi, I'm really new to this and I'm really struggling to even start using Adobe Animate. I've drawn a picture in Adobe Fresco in both one picture and also in layers. I believe that I need to then save the picture with the layers as a .bmp file and then import it into Animate....but I cannot for the life of me work out how to save it as a .bmp. I have JPEG and 3 other Adobe Photoshop file types when I come to 'Export' it. I've attached the file but even though it should be in layers it imports it as only one layer. Please can someone help me as I am really frustrated with this.
You need to export from Fresco to a format that supports layers - PSD is what you want. Once you have it on the device running Animate, Import the PSD into a new document and that will prompt the PSD import wizard. Go ahead and import all layers (all visible layers will be checked) and you will see all Fresco layers with artwork on individual layers in Animate.
Now from there, animating your artwork depends on a number of factors and techniques too lengthy to type out here. But there are countless tutorials on YouTube as to how to animate in Animate (formerly Flash). I have a bunch that might help you get started...
What you will import is a single object to the stage. If you were smart in your Affinity Designer layering/grouping you can proceed to meticulously rebuild your creation for Animate, if desired.
I usually select that object and Cmd-B (break it) one time. This leaves me my first set of layers/groups that I can then Cmd-D to distribute to layers (make sure all layers are selected) Next I take each of those groups and make them a symbol. Then I can edit each of those symbols by repeating the Cmd-B, Cmd-D steps within that symbols root until it's "ready" to be animated.
i have an Xp-pen artist 15.6 pro and im trying to learn adobe animate for simple animation, but i the short key and the pressure dont work proprely. the zoom wheel work only when i zoom out and there are no pressure when i use the pen. im new with this can someone help? thx
another problem im getting is like a shifting problem of the mause, when i try to click the file section, it open the view section... that's problem only happend in adobe animate, neither photoshop or other program have this problem
I'm not sure what could have caused this, as I've only had one crash with Animate recently, and that's when it crashed from an unknown error. It gave me the option to save before I closed it down, and then I reopened the file again and it was fine that day. It wasn't until I opened up the file again today that suddenly the scenes were missing.
I do still have the .swf file which has the up to date version of everything. if there is no other way to get the recovery file, is there a way that I could convert the .swf file back into a flash document?
I really appreciate any tips you guys might have, as I really don't want to redo almost everything from scratch again. Many of the scenes were in the rough state still but it would still be hours and hours of work gone right down the drain if I have to start over again.
Thanks for the speedy response! As a last ditch effort, I went and looked around the cloud and found that there's a timeline tool that allowed me to take the document back a save or two and get it back with minimal losses.
If that does not work, in the worst case, you can screen record your SWF (OBS, Camtasia) to import back as video and use as underlay when you repeat the animation. Possibly you could use Swivel to convert the SWF to video.
You need to learn to Save as... several times a day and have backup copies on at least two external drives, made every night if you value your time and your work. All kinds of things happen with digital files and if you do this work professionally, you have to be always prepared for the worst.
@n. tilcheff You mentioned it is not considered "good practice" to use Scenes in Adobe Animate/Flash. May you explain why that is?
I am aware of some of its disadvantages which are listed in the Adobe Help Article linked below, but most of the reasons are related to Scenes being confusing for multiple people working on the same .fla file or files taking up more memory. Neither is a problem for me as I work alone and mainly use Adobe Animate/Flash for creating short animated videos under 3 minutes.
How to work with scenes in Animate (adobe.com)
Regardless, thank you Nick for the work you do in the Flash/Adobe Animate Community and the experience and knowledge you share with us.
Scenes should be taken out of animate. It has too many issues and makes the .Fla too heavy and adds risk for problems or bugs. You are better off breaking down your scenes to .fla's. So instead of 14 scenes you would have 14 fla's, this way if something goes wrong with one .fla the other 13 are still safe. Then when you are done with your 14 .fla's you export 14 videos and edit in premiere.
The zoom stage tools for adobe animate are a little hard to use. For example, when in fullscreen mode the custom drop down menu disappears. I use + and - but those only zoom in increments - a scrubby zoom would be more precise. I figured the only way to make this happen is to build an extension myself - how would I go about building an extension/action/add-on for adobe animate to make zooming easier? Is this possible? I really don't know much about coding/developing add-ons. I've searched for an extension that does this but haven't found anything close to it. Or maybe there is a way to make an action that zooms in 10% or 20% increments?
There are plenty of ways to zoom in Animate, it's just a shame that they are so different from Illustrator, Photoshop etc. I'm so used to scrub-zoom now that whenever I use the zoom shortcut quickly on Animate (hold ctrl and space, hold left click and scrub / draw box) I end up zoomed in on a random small square of the stage when trying to scrub . (Came here as a result of doing it about 15 times in 10 minutes trying to start a flash project after spending hours on Illustrator!) I think Photoshop only changed relatively recently from the zoom box selection if I remember rightly, so maybe Animate will too in an update. My pen doesn't have a mousewheel function just middle click, which doesn't really help and I like to work fast and not have to drop pen and use mouse etc. Just have to get used to it each time. Like I said, it would be nice if there was more cohesion with other Adobe software.
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