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I was looking for a quick answer. But all this information was great in order to make a confident platform decision now and in the future. Definitely worth the 24mins.!
It's so crazy to think all that Flash stuff went down 10 years ago... Still feels like it's very recent, but it's been a decade. Geez, I'm getting old...
I didn't even know until now lol. I assumed flash was still played on the web. I didn't even know what an swf file was and now I know why it wont play on my web browser lmao.
A highly informative video detailing the history of Flash/Animate. I've been a Flash Animator since 2000 and honed my skills in AS2 and AS3. Flash allowed us to bring our creative dreams to life, but regrettably, it was phased out of the industry, affecting a significant number of professionals.
I thrived as a Flash developer from 1998 through 2011 working in the casual gaming industry (casino/lottery). I saw Flash evolve from a simple tool capable of producing static animated bling all the way through to a powerful application platform with available MVC frameworks such as Robotlegs. 2008 to 2010 especially was a great time to be in the Flash game, nothing came close to it. In 2010 after the infamous Apple announcement, I knew it was the beginning of the end. In that first year I did my part to educate ignoramuses in various circles who demonized Flash while claiming HTML5 could do everything Flash could do. It simply wasn't even remotely true. Only until recent years has HTML5/JS/CSS started to match the capabilities of a platform that was more mature 10+ years ago. To me it was obvious Apple ( a big industry influencer) caved on Flash because they were threatened by it, especially in terms of being the app "gatekeeper" (i.e. monetization). Instead they hid behined the idea that it was too slow and insecure. Two things they could have easily worked with Adobe to solve. RIP Flash
i agree. adobe reacted to this and solved it with Stage3D (Molehill) It was incredible and years ahead of HTML5 but by then it was too late. The damage had been done.
I too was a flash developer since 1998. And I still think even now they can save Flash (Animate) by giving Apple and Google good stakes in Adobe Animate. Rather than killing it altogether. There is still a huge potential.
Thank you! I didn’t think I would ever be able to use Flash again. After taking course it felt like time was wasted learning an old method that was in the middle of being phased out. Glad to be able to convert my past projects to view on the web and social media. Excited to get going! Your video gave a lot of hope. Flash/Animate is awesome and way easier.
I am just starting. I know hardly anything about making animations. Anyhow, I am creating my products that I am going to sell, and one step forward is marketing - from that, I have zero experience also. But, I decided to create an animation for FB and other social media. I have Creative Clouds, so I decided to start to learn how to use Animate. I wonder why I did not do animations before? This is fun! The imagination just starts to fly! Also, instantly you start to see the world in different eyes. When I see a dog, I ponder, how would I make its movements look like... This is not learning only technics, this is learning about life, movements, face expressions etc.! I know nothing about Flash etc. things, so this video was VERY informative and helpful to me in all ways. Thank you very much!
Jason Derifaj thanks! It’s a shame adobe hasn’t done more on the html5 side. Lots of missed opportunities for this powerful tool. SWF was such a powerful format.
Great and Well Presented Video thanks alot and waiting for javascript lessons in animate i have introduced some flash lessons in my channel and was depressed and confused about flash but now i have the confidence :) thanks alot :)
Thanks for the comment. I was literally going to start recording a JavaScript class for Animate but right now I have my reservations about its future and ease of use. As strange as it may seem I'm now making an AS3 course. Would love to do more with JS if I see more interest / demand.
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I have a request. I hope the programmers add an update or add a pointer to it similar to its work. It works on making the shape or imagine the face or any section how it will be when it will be on my side.. I have a problem when I draw the face in front of me I do not know how to imagine or redraw it when it turns a little
flash, one of the best software develop my macromedia but eventually killed by adobe, dont know why adobe didnt developed thier own browser to continue flash as plug-in,thanks for the video bro, LONG LIVE AS3!!!!
I was teaching at the time Steve Jobs released his open letter about Flash. In class I addressed each point and there was only one point that I couldn't address (Flash crashes more on Macs). I didn't have the stats to determine that. I found it funny as he said that Flash is a mouse technology. The web is a mouse technology. How else do you code a hover event, which doesn't work on mobile. I told my class that it's only a mouse technology if you develop it that way.
Thank Phil. Yeah there was quite a bit of nonsense in the jobs letter. I still think adobe could have done more to make things work but it was too little too late. I’m still a fan of Animate and glad it’s still around.
@@snorklTV Me too. I still use Animate CC to make mobile apps. If you optimise the code and graphics, it runs really well. I'm now working on a HTML5 version of a drag and drop. It's much easier in AS3. Oh well. I love learning new things.
Basically flash is doing everything so simple. Now they make it complicated to get less results with more effort. flash is a tool that got ahead of it's time. I will never give up animate/flash
Yes, Agree 100%, with you. Actionscript and Flash is still the best dev for complex app, and still using Flash Pro Csy6 A big mistake is to compare HTML5 with Actionscript, HTML5 is NOT an interpreted language. Actionscript is a clean language like Javascript JS does not cover all Actionscript API like multicast, vector, rtmfp, typing etc... also Flash API is not only animation, but UI components, super complex application quasi impossible to do it cleanly on JS Javascrap is HELL to maintain and still slower for a lot of things. the good news is soon we will get all Flash/Flex API on websassembly.
Adobe Animate does not do what you just did in your video. Adobe does not present a clear and cogent explanation of why one would use one format over another. ActionScript 3.0 provides numerous animation advantages not available in HTML5 canvas, but this is not stated. Thank You for shedding light on the history and reality of this situation.
Excellent! I will certainly recommend this video on the Adobe forums when users ask for guidance on choosing the right type of document or output. Please keep it up!
Thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate the encouragement too! Yeah, please share it with anyone that you think it will help. I was compelled to make this so detailed as there are a lot of people just getting into the workforce that never really experienced the swf or know how great AS3 was and how important the ActionScript 3.0 doc is today.
Wow, great video and now I totally understand AS3 vs HTML5 Canvas and how it all works, and what is the best to choose when starting an animation. Thank you so much for this informative video, I am a new subscriber!
I'm a noobie taking a college course for Animation and working on a project for class. I had a hard time trying to decide which format I should use and this helped me out immensely. Thank you very much!
You were right. Since Jobs didn't have a replacement for Flash , he was selfish in destroying a great platform. I know this comment is rather late . nevertheless .. i would blame adobe for dropping support. not fighting back. Wanna add something here. I used Animate to create APK files. a young Android programmer saw it and asked if this was actually done in Android Studio . I asked him why he felt like that . He said the quality of the images and animations were far better than what could be had from Android Studio. That's when i told him its Flash ( Animate). He then went: Oh!!! Thanx for this Great video !
Great vid - I make short films with my son and I have been learning Animate to add animation/special effects to short films. If this is your end goal, then ActionScript is best and it also allows you to use scenes which I don't think you can with HTML5. Still learning the application but your vid further proves that for me anyway Actionscript is the way to go.
AS3 is used for all mobile apps that are submitted to any App Store. I'm not sure you pointed that out. I've worked on 19 apps in various app stores, all of them were AS3/AIR. That aside, it was a great video.
Hi Colin, Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and comment. Around 9:10 I have a little mention of AIR and its viability for mobile but I definitely didn't spend a lot of time on it. My focus was more on letting people know that targeting the Flash Player isn't a great idea due to its end of life and lack of presence in browsers. Frankly, I wish I heard more about AIR for mobile from Adobe and the community. I LOVED AS3 and wish more people knew about how great it is.
Whether you use Adobe Animate or do everything in Eclipse based tools to avoid having to pay Adobe, the scripting language is ActionScript 3. Me personally, I use Animate (formally Flash Professional), so my main file is FLA. In general you don't access external SWFs, all of the code is embedded in the FLA, but you can publish to SWC instead of SWF, and embed those in the FLA, allowing you to be modular, and still have a single native IPA or APK.@@tf19518
This is the best intro to animate . I want to create offline e-learning applications with videos and animations for educators, which should open natively in windows and apple Mac laptops . (Offline) Please advice if I can make interactive applications with AS3.0 and export as a projector files . If I join your course can I learn to make such applications as mentioned.
Glad you liked the video. I haven’t made projector files in ages or anything with AS3. Best to do some small tests. Pretty sure it would work. My course covers basic animation techniques and nothing with code or video.
This video made me so happy!! I'm struggling learning After Effects and was wondering which would be better for Facebook video ads!! I'm a 15 year veteran of Flash/Adobe Animate CC for display banner ads. But I'm getting a ton of Social Media requests for animation. I'm going to start going back to AS3 for Facebook ads now!! YAY!!
jennycreative1 thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to comment. I agree Animate is great for social advertising videos. After Effects is very powerful but probably overkill for this stuff. The AS3 fla is the way to go!
@@snorklTV I'm excited to try it. I have a new freelance client that I'm trying to impress. He wants animated Facebook ads. Do you have a tutorial for this? I've never rendered a video from Animate CC before. I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. Thanks again for this video. I'm so happy to be able to have filters and blurs back in "FLASH". God I miss the good old days. We all did some cool stuff there for a while!
@@jennycreative1 Yeah, animated filters are the best and terribly lacking in html5. For exporting video, animate exports very large .mov files that you can then compress in Adobe Media Encoder (it ships with Animate). This video shows the basics: th-cam.com/video/BbG7NjQ-DQg/w-d-xo.html
As a former Flash developer and designer, I must say that your video is spot on. Presently, I'm developing to Adobe Air because it is an extremely useful cross platform medium that allows simultaneous publishing to Android, iOS, Windows 10 and MacOS. I don't know of any other method of coding that has this level of cross-platform compatibility.
Lets be real, they wanted control over the platform via the App store. A front end that is STILL not available to the open internet, you need iTunes. Flash was awesome, still is. Evangelists citing HTML5/CSS/JS filling that gap efectively honestly have no idea what they are talking about.
Thank you for this video. It is great to set the record straight and to explain to many people who do not remember how things were before 2010 what happened. I will recommend your video to all of my students.
Very helpful, thank you! If you are making an interactive video that plays in your browser the work flow would be; Do all of the artwork/animation in AS3, export those files as videos? Bring the interactivity to life with HTML5 Canvas? Would it also be safe to say that any kind of button creation and interactivity built in AS3 would be reserved for a flash player, and in the case of my "interactive video scenario" a waste of time? Thanks again!
Glad you liked it. In general, as long as you need interactivity in the browser I would keep as much of the workflow as possible in HTML5 canvas. If there is something you can only do with AS3, then I guess you'll have to convert that to video as you suggested.
Yeah, I really miss Flash, one thing that's really cool at the end of the Flash era was the GPU rendering support, people can play Doom kind of quality game in Flash player, there were even experiment to port C++ written game code and convert for Flash player deployment. As far as Steve Jobs, I'm glad he's gone, imagine a world with Steve Jobs and Elon exist at the same time, the world can only handle one rich narcissist at a time!
friend ... I don't know anything about code, but I loved flash and now adobe animate ... I would like to ask you a favor, can you do me the code so that ... a fish is seen moving ... and when I give it click ... get shot randomly to any direction? ... my dream is to help my sister create bottom fish from her website and when someone touches the fish with the cursor ... it swims fast to get lost ... is it possible? ... make a fish like movieclip and put it to swim randomly ... that saves for all directions and thus is not predictable ... when someone interacts with the click ... go swimming rando way, ... how much would you charge me to make that code? Thanks for your attention.
THIS IS THE EXACT EXPLANATION THAT I NEED FROM LIKE 2019!!! Finally found this video although now it's 2022, I hope it's not too late or something . . . :D Thank you for this great insight.
I am very happy I am not the one still love Flash AS3. I love Flash is because it is easy to design UI and write AS3 code to interact users. I never learn Javascript. Because it is so hard to learn, and performance is poor !! I want Flash AS3 still alive and able to run Google Chrome browser !!!
I agree that Flash + AS3 made things much easier. However, Adobe has officially given up on the platform and there's nothing we can do to change that. Thankfully we have greensock in javascript which makes things much easier. CSS, although very powerful these days, takes quite some time to master and use efficiently. Here are my beginner GreenSock for JS videos: th-cam.com/play/PLSkIx8U0TMvgH2PEokYLIxofdb1L9cJjz.html
I challenge you to do a movie of a clickable moving circle with sound that when you click it jumps to a website. And do it with flash unity unreal construct ect.. And see where it's more difficult and where it's easy. The results may shock you
Hello, how can i find out how to optimise HTML5 banners. I currently have a banner with is 155kb buy i need it reduced to 100kb. Any tips or where i can find out would be a real help. Thanks so much!
I think that even though Flash swf files are dead now in our web platforms, swf files could be very useful for desktop applications if used within other programming languages like Csharp or python, as their interactivity and smooth animations cannot be compared with other applications or programming languages, except sometimes Java scripts of course ...
@@snorklTV Something like we did in Flash in the yesteryear. Playing interactive games, quizzes inside of an HTML frame. Imagine playing tic-tak-toe or pac-man inside your Facebook post.
@@SantanuProductions oh yes. They used to have full angry birds on Facebook. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like that in years. Now we just have gifs and video. Nothing interactive. 😟
You did not mention the possibility of Flash In the production of educational games and tests for students Should we continue with Flash for this purpose or should we go to another programming language?
@@snorklTV ... I have been working on learning AS3 thinking that I could develop interactive activities for children who are at home because of the pandemic. I have all the graphic elements for an Old MacDonald sign-a-long, which can be printed out and laminated too. I would like to develop the online activity to allow them to choose the animals in any order, which would then trigger the appropriate audio to play for each individual animal. Would HTML5 work for this please? Or, is the audio going to be a problem?? Also, there any tutorial that you can recommend??? I have used Flash for years developing SWF files for Splash pages until it became deprecated. Thanks a bunch. The video is very imformative.
Laura Lanoue what you describe can be done with html5 and JavaScript with animate. I don’t have any in depth tutorials but I do have a collection of source files to show how to do common programming tasks in animate with JavaScript. www.creativecodingclub.com/courses/adobe-animate-for-html5
@@LauraLanoueUIUXGIRL yes. and you can cancel right away if that is all you need. And just to be clear. They are just source files. If I see more demand I will make tutorials. Happy to answer questions though.
care to convert my AS2 site for me? :) it's not a big site, I just need maybe for it to be made into some kind of template... then I could work on it myself after dissecting it. that's how I got to making my AS2 site, I got a template, dissected it, then know how to build upon it.
I would suggest learning JavaScript or ActionScript 3. ActionScript 2 is no longer supported by Adobe. I have an ActionScript 3.0 intro course here: courses.snorkl.tv/courses/generative-art-with-adobe-animate-as3
Thanks for the video I enjoyed it. I have some files in my portfolio created for the web with ActionScript 2 and 3. Is there a way to convert them using Animate CC to HTM5 files that will play on the web? They're interactive.
I would love to hear about this too! I am trying to convert one game mine made on AS 2.0 to html5 and pratically i will have to build the entire thing from 0. Even the animations will need to be adapted, html5 doesnt support a lot of the features, input fields, shades, alpha filter. I am kinda sad because the game can become inferior compared to his original format.
Great video, thank you for saying all of this. Yes, I literally saw my previous life using web animation Flash before me. Started back in the Macromedia days. I loved the interactivity and made web art pieces. You are totally right. Jobs was completely out of order. Air was a total pain and lots of cool web art/games/UI was left in the desert. Relieved to feel I wasn't the only one who was cheesed off by these developments.
Hi, good video. For some reason I can only export on animate with action script. When I go to export with HTML the program crashes. What can I do? I am on windows.
Can I use the HTML Wrapper that comes as an option inside the ActionScript format publishing configuration window, to still be able to run AS3 interactive game in a browser?
Thanks for making this video! Adding to it, Actions riot is also awesome to create local applications like interactive kiosk maps and content for digital billboards!
Thanks for watching. If you want your game to run natively in a web browser it must be HTML5. Flash Player is no longer supported in Chrome 😥. Safari ending support soon. Adobe Air which does support AS3 is now maintained by a company called Harman.
Plazma Ghost yeah that was the intention. No one talks about or explains this stuff any more. Figured it was worth putting some time into for those that care.
Can I use Animate CC 2019 for read/write text files? I know I know... you will say, why you don't use python or similar... but the truth is that I need to read files, then base on that I would be drawing some stuff in the screen, then everything would be visually and interactive (a desktop app), then based on what the user does, write back a file etc... I just wish to do something like that with the benefit of designing the visual part using Flash IDE (Animate).
Thank you for making this excellent video! Many high schools in Norway used flash-as3 in a multimedia development course for high school students. Now it has been mainly, but not totally, replaced by java script, CCS and HTML, or similar languages. I use AS3-with Aniamte CC in my high school for many years and I am so confident that is gives a very effective and solid introduction to the object oriented programming itself. My students learn and master it very quickly and we enjoy making many creative, useful and cool apps.
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I was looking for a quick answer. But all this information was great in order to make a confident platform decision now and in the future. Definitely worth the 24mins.!
same here!
It's so crazy to think all that Flash stuff went down 10 years ago... Still feels like it's very recent, but it's been a decade. Geez, I'm getting old...
haha
I didn't even know until now lol. I assumed flash was still played on the web. I didn't even know what an swf file was and now I know why it wont play on my web browser lmao.
A highly informative video detailing the history of Flash/Animate. I've been a Flash Animator since 2000 and honed my skills in AS2 and AS3. Flash allowed us to bring our creative dreams to life, but regrettably, it was phased out of the industry, affecting a significant number of professionals.
Thanks for watching. glad you enjoyed it. seems we had very similar experiences with Flash.
I thrived as a Flash developer from 1998 through 2011 working in the casual gaming industry (casino/lottery). I saw Flash evolve from a simple tool capable of producing static animated bling all the way through to a powerful application platform with available MVC frameworks such as Robotlegs. 2008 to 2010 especially was a great time to be in the Flash game, nothing came close to it. In 2010 after the infamous Apple announcement, I knew it was the beginning of the end. In that first year I did my part to educate ignoramuses in various circles who demonized Flash while claiming HTML5 could do everything Flash could do. It simply wasn't even remotely true. Only until recent years has HTML5/JS/CSS started to match the capabilities of a platform that was more mature 10+ years ago. To me it was obvious Apple ( a big industry influencer) caved on Flash because they were threatened by it, especially in terms of being the app "gatekeeper" (i.e. monetization). Instead they hid behined the idea that it was too slow and insecure. Two things they could have easily worked with Adobe to solve. RIP Flash
i agree. adobe reacted to this and solved it with Stage3D (Molehill) It was incredible and years ahead of HTML5 but by then it was too late. The damage had been done.
I too was a flash developer since 1998. And I still think even now they can save Flash (Animate) by giving Apple and Google good stakes in Adobe Animate. Rather than killing it altogether. There is still a huge potential.
Thank you! I didn’t think I would ever be able to use Flash again. After taking course it felt like time was wasted learning an old method that was in the middle of being phased out. Glad to be able to convert my past projects to view on the web and social media. Excited to get going! Your video gave a lot of hope. Flash/Animate is awesome and way easier.
I am just starting. I know hardly anything about making animations. Anyhow, I am creating my products that I am going to sell, and one step forward is marketing - from that, I have zero experience also. But, I decided to create an animation for FB and other social media. I have Creative Clouds, so I decided to start to learn how to use Animate.
I wonder why I did not do animations before? This is fun! The imagination just starts to fly! Also, instantly you start to see the world in different eyes. When I see a dog, I ponder, how would I make its movements look like... This is not learning only technics, this is learning about life, movements, face expressions etc.!
I know nothing about Flash etc. things, so this video was VERY informative and helpful to me in all ways. Thank you very much!
I totally agree! I highly recommend this playlist: th-cam.com/play/PL-bOh8btec4CXd2ya1NmSKpi92U_l6ZJd.html the videos are short, informative and fun.
Nice wrap up on the history of Flash. It was a sad day when Jobs wrote that letter. I remember it well.
Jason Derifaj thanks! It’s a shame adobe hasn’t done more on the html5 side. Lots of missed opportunities for this powerful tool. SWF was such a powerful format.
Thank you so much for this, a brilliant breakdown.
Awesome video, covered so much in one vid. Massive thanks for sharing. Awesome work!
Great and Well Presented Video
thanks alot and waiting for javascript lessons in animate
i have introduced some flash lessons in my channel and was depressed and confused about flash
but now i have the confidence :)
thanks alot :)
Thanks for the comment. I was literally going to start recording a JavaScript class for Animate but right now I have my reservations about its future and ease of use. As strange as it may seem I'm now making an AS3 course. Would love to do more with JS if I see more interest / demand.
Thanks for your help and quick response. Randy
I have been thru all this shit of Flash vs Apple vs Google dropping support for flash
That was some very awesome information never really knew what the difference was so thanks for explaining that so well.
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I have a request. I hope the programmers add an update or add a pointer to it similar to its work. It works on making the shape or imagine the face or any section how it will be when it will be on my side.. I have a problem when I draw the face in front of me I do not know how to imagine or redraw it when it turns a little
flash, one of the best software develop my macromedia but eventually killed by adobe, dont know why adobe didnt developed thier own browser to continue flash as plug-in,thanks for the video bro, LONG LIVE AS3!!!!
Super Explanation.
thx. glad you liked it
I was teaching at the time Steve Jobs released his open letter about Flash. In class I addressed each point and there was only one point that I couldn't address (Flash crashes more on Macs). I didn't have the stats to determine that. I found it funny as he said that Flash is a mouse technology. The web is a mouse technology. How else do you code a hover event, which doesn't work on mobile. I told my class that it's only a mouse technology if you develop it that way.
Thank Phil. Yeah there was quite a bit of nonsense in the jobs letter. I still think adobe could have done more to make things work but it was too little too late. I’m still a fan of Animate and glad it’s still around.
@@snorklTV Me too. I still use Animate CC to make mobile apps. If you optimise the code and graphics, it runs really well. I'm now working on a HTML5 version of a drag and drop. It's much easier in AS3. Oh well. I love learning new things.
how to create android games, connection to NO-sql databases and create VR apps in nimate cc?
Shehan Alpha no idea. Sorry.
So actionscript as become useless, it only serves to create GIFTS ? I really liked actionscript 3.0.... the end
So Adobe changed the name from Flash to Animate to erase the horrible past from users' memory.
Basically flash is doing everything so simple. Now they make it complicated to get less results with more effort.
flash is a tool that got ahead of it's time.
I will never give up animate/flash
Yes, Agree 100%, with you. Actionscript and Flash is still the best dev for complex app, and still using Flash Pro Csy6
A big mistake is to compare HTML5 with Actionscript, HTML5 is NOT an interpreted language. Actionscript is a clean language like Javascript
JS does not cover all Actionscript API like multicast, vector, rtmfp, typing etc...
also Flash API is not only animation, but UI components, super complex application quasi impossible to do it cleanly on JS
Javascrap is HELL to maintain and still slower for a lot of things.
the good news is soon we will get all Flash/Flex API on websassembly.
Adobe Animate does not do what you just did in your video. Adobe does not present a clear and cogent explanation of why one would use one format over another. ActionScript 3.0 provides numerous animation advantages not available in HTML5 canvas, but this is not stated. Thank You for shedding light on the history and reality of this situation.
Excellent! I will certainly recommend this video on the Adobe forums when users ask for guidance on choosing the right type of document or output. Please keep it up!
Thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate the encouragement too! Yeah, please share it with anyone that you think it will help. I was compelled to make this so detailed as there are a lot of people just getting into the workforce that never really experienced the swf or know how great AS3 was and how important the ActionScript 3.0 doc is today.
Same here i had a lot of AS3 and AS2 games that i need to convert to js.
Wow, great video and now I totally understand AS3 vs HTML5 Canvas and how it all works, and what is the best to choose when starting an animation. Thank you so much for this informative video, I am a new subscriber!
Thanks! So glad it helped you.
excellent! am just a beginner but I am now motivated to learn with you!
Yes, agreed! this is what i am thingking of for many years! glad to hear that :)
me too
I'm a noobie taking a college course for Animation and working on a project for class. I had a hard time trying to decide which format I should use and this helped me out immensely. Thank you very much!
You were right. Since Jobs didn't have a replacement for Flash , he was selfish in destroying a great platform. I know this comment is rather late . nevertheless .. i would blame adobe for dropping support. not fighting back. Wanna add something here. I used Animate to create APK files. a young Android programmer saw it and asked if this was actually done in Android Studio . I asked him why he felt like that . He said the quality of the images and animations were far better than what could be had from Android Studio. That's when i told him its Flash ( Animate). He then went: Oh!!! Thanx for this Great video !
Great analyst
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thanks dude ;)
Great vid - I make short films with my son and I have been learning Animate to add animation/special effects to short films. If this is your end goal, then ActionScript is best and it also allows you to use scenes which I don't think you can with HTML5. Still learning the application but your vid further proves that for me anyway Actionscript is the way to go.
AS3 is used for all mobile apps that are submitted to any App Store. I'm not sure you pointed that out. I've worked on 19 apps in various app stores, all of them were AS3/AIR. That aside, it was a great video.
Hi Colin, Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and comment. Around 9:10 I have a little mention of AIR and its viability for mobile but I definitely didn't spend a lot of time on it. My focus was more on letting people know that targeting the Flash Player isn't a great idea due to its end of life and lack of presence in browsers. Frankly, I wish I heard more about AIR for mobile from Adobe and the community. I LOVED AS3 and wish more people knew about how great it is.
@@snorklTV Are you on the Animate prerelease? Would you like to be?
My full name at gmail dot com, if you want to let me know that way.
Does that mean that the mobile apps are using .fla or .swf files?
Whether you use Adobe Animate or do everything in Eclipse based tools to avoid having to pay Adobe, the scripting language is ActionScript 3. Me personally, I use Animate (formally Flash Professional), so my main file is FLA. In general you don't access external SWFs, all of the code is embedded in the FLA, but you can publish to SWC instead of SWF, and embed those in the FLA, allowing you to be modular, and still have a single native IPA or APK.@@tf19518
This is the best intro to animate . I want to create offline e-learning applications with videos and animations for educators, which should open natively in windows and apple Mac laptops . (Offline) Please advice if I can make interactive applications with AS3.0 and export as a projector files . If I join your course can I learn to make such applications as mentioned.
Glad you liked the video. I haven’t made projector files in ages or anything with AS3. Best to do some small tests. Pretty sure it would work. My course covers basic animation techniques and nothing with code or video.
This video made me so happy!! I'm struggling learning After Effects and was wondering which would be better for Facebook video ads!! I'm a 15 year veteran of Flash/Adobe Animate CC for display banner ads. But I'm getting a ton of Social Media requests for animation. I'm going to start going back to AS3 for Facebook ads now!!
YAY!!
jennycreative1 thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to comment. I agree Animate is great for social advertising videos. After Effects is very powerful but probably overkill for this stuff. The AS3 fla is the way to go!
@@snorklTV I'm excited to try it. I have a new freelance client that I'm trying to impress. He wants animated Facebook ads. Do you have a tutorial for this? I've never rendered a video from Animate CC before. I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.
Thanks again for this video. I'm so happy to be able to have filters and blurs back in "FLASH". God I miss the good old days. We all did some cool stuff there for a while!
@@jennycreative1 Yeah, animated filters are the best and terribly lacking in html5. For exporting video, animate exports very large .mov files that you can then compress in Adobe Media Encoder (it ships with Animate). This video shows the basics: th-cam.com/video/BbG7NjQ-DQg/w-d-xo.html
As a former Flash developer and designer, I must say that your video is spot on. Presently, I'm developing to Adobe Air because it is an extremely useful cross platform medium that allows simultaneous publishing to Android, iOS, Windows 10 and MacOS. I don't know of any other method of coding that has this level of cross-platform compatibility.
I took the AIR path. Unfortunately, now Adobe has sold AIR to Harman. I don't see any future ahead.
Lets be real, they wanted control over the platform via the App store.
A front end that is STILL not available to the open internet, you need iTunes.
Flash was awesome, still is. Evangelists citing HTML5/CSS/JS filling that gap efectively honestly have no idea what they are talking about.
Thank you for this video. It is great to set the record straight and to explain to many people who do not remember how things were before 2010 what happened. I will recommend your video to all of my students.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear this resonated with you. I appreciate you sharing this.. Thx!
Great video, I said your arguments in 2010 :)
Now in 2022 looking back to adobe cc back
Thanks for this video. I worked as a Flash dev for more than a decade and thought this is one of the best timelines of Flash.
Very helpful, thank you!
If you are making an interactive video that plays in your browser the work flow would be; Do all of the artwork/animation in AS3, export those files as videos? Bring the interactivity to life with HTML5 Canvas?
Would it also be safe to say that any kind of button creation and interactivity built in AS3 would be reserved for a flash player, and in the case of my "interactive video scenario" a waste of time?
Thanks again!
Glad you liked it. In general, as long as you need interactivity in the browser I would keep as much of the workflow as possible in HTML5 canvas. If there is something you can only do with AS3, then I guess you'll have to convert that to video as you suggested.
clean and awesome way to explain this mess for me XD thank you
Thank you, this is really clearing my questions!
Yeah, I really miss Flash, one thing that's really cool at the end of the Flash era was the GPU rendering support, people can play Doom kind of quality game in Flash player, there were even experiment to port C++ written game code and convert for Flash player deployment. As far as Steve Jobs, I'm glad he's gone, imagine a world with Steve Jobs and Elon exist at the same time, the world can only handle one rich narcissist at a time!
Thanks for watching! Take a look at Rive App seems they are going in the direction of flash by merging graphics and code.
friend ... I don't know anything about code, but I loved flash and now adobe animate ... I would like to ask you a favor, can you do me the code so that ... a fish is seen moving ... and when I give it click ... get shot randomly to any direction? ... my dream is to help my sister create bottom fish from her website and when someone touches the fish with the cursor ... it swims fast to get lost ... is it possible? ... make a fish like movieclip and put it to swim randomly ... that saves for all directions and thus is not predictable ... when someone interacts with the click ... go swimming rando way, ... how much would you charge me to make that code? Thanks for your attention.
thanks for asking. its a cool idea, but isn't something I can do right now.
Great 👍
THIS IS THE EXACT EXPLANATION THAT I NEED FROM LIKE 2019!!! Finally found this video although now it's 2022, I hope it's not too late or something . . . :D Thank you for this great insight.
So glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching.
Great video, i've learn a lot
I am very happy I am not the one still love Flash AS3. I love Flash is because it is easy to design UI and write AS3 code to interact users. I never learn Javascript. Because it is so hard to learn, and performance is poor !! I want Flash AS3 still alive and able to run Google Chrome browser !!!
I agree that Flash + AS3 made things much easier. However, Adobe has officially given up on the platform and there's nothing we can do to change that. Thankfully we have greensock in javascript which makes things much easier. CSS, although very powerful these days, takes quite some time to master and use efficiently. Here are my beginner GreenSock for JS videos: th-cam.com/play/PLSkIx8U0TMvgH2PEokYLIxofdb1L9cJjz.html
I challenge you to do a movie of a clickable moving circle with sound that when you click it jumps to a website.
And do it with flash unity unreal construct ect..
And see where it's more difficult and where it's easy. The results may shock you
Thx for watching. Glad you enjoyed it. Gotta pass on the challenge as I don’t know much about all those things you mentioned.
Hello, how can i find out how to optimise HTML5 banners. I currently have a banner with is 155kb buy i need it reduced to 100kb. Any tips or where i can find out would be a real help. Thanks so much!
I think that even though Flash swf files are dead now in our web platforms, swf files could be very useful for desktop applications if used within other programming languages like Csharp or python, as their interactivity and smooth animations cannot be compared with other applications or programming languages, except sometimes Java scripts of course ...
How do i then create rich interactive content for social media?
what is rich interactive content for social media?
@@snorklTV Something like we did in Flash in the yesteryear. Playing interactive games, quizzes inside of an HTML frame. Imagine playing tic-tak-toe or pac-man inside your Facebook post.
@@SantanuProductions oh yes. They used to have full angry birds on Facebook. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like that in years. Now we just have gifs and video. Nothing interactive. 😟
So what happens with all the AS and Flash code on the internet? Does it just get deactivated lmao?
If you just want the summary skip to 22:10
You did not mention the possibility of Flash
In the production of educational games and tests for students
Should we continue with Flash for this purpose or should we go to another programming language?
Yes, html5 canvas is great for games, quizzes and other educational things. Sorry i wasn't more clear
@@snorklTV ... I have been working on learning AS3 thinking that I could develop interactive activities for children who are at home because of the pandemic. I have all the graphic elements for an Old MacDonald sign-a-long, which can be printed out and laminated too. I would like to develop the online activity to allow them to choose the animals in any order, which would then trigger the appropriate audio to play for each individual animal. Would HTML5 work for this please? Or, is the audio going to be a problem?? Also, there any tutorial that you can recommend??? I have used Flash for years developing SWF files for Splash pages until it became deprecated. Thanks a bunch. The video is very imformative.
Laura Lanoue what you describe can be done with html5 and JavaScript with animate. I don’t have any in depth tutorials but I do have a collection of source files to show how to do common programming tasks in animate with JavaScript. www.creativecodingclub.com/courses/adobe-animate-for-html5
@@snorklTV ... Thank for your reply. Is the $4.95 a month in US dollars?
@@LauraLanoueUIUXGIRL yes. and you can cancel right away if that is all you need. And just to be clear. They are just source files. If I see more demand I will make tutorials. Happy to answer questions though.
care to convert my AS2 site for me? :) it's not a big site, I just need maybe for it to be made into some kind of template... then I could work on it myself after dissecting it. that's how I got to making my AS2 site, I got a template, dissected it, then know how to build upon it.
Izlude Tingel thanks for the offer, will have to pass on that.
Is it possible to convert swf files to html5?
Hi. Sorry, Not that I know of.
@@snorklTV Can actionscript 3 games be exported to HTML5?
@@SoftTehCustomer don’t think so.
Finally somebody cover this topic
Thanks for sharing great information ❤️
which language we know to learn 2.0 & 3.0 language
I would suggest learning JavaScript or ActionScript 3. ActionScript 2 is no longer supported by Adobe. I have an ActionScript 3.0 intro course here: courses.snorkl.tv/courses/generative-art-with-adobe-animate-as3
Thanks for the video I enjoyed it. I have some files in my portfolio created for the web with ActionScript 2 and 3. Is there a way to convert them using Animate CC to HTM5 files that will play on the web? They're interactive.
I would love to hear about this too! I am trying to convert one game mine made on AS 2.0 to html5 and pratically i will have to build the entire thing from 0. Even the animations will need to be adapted, html5 doesnt support a lot of the features, input fields, shades, alpha filter. I am kinda sad because the game can become inferior compared to his original format.
Very good work!
Great video, thank you for saying all of this. Yes, I literally saw my previous life using web animation Flash before me. Started back in the Macromedia days. I loved the interactivity and made web art pieces. You are totally right. Jobs was completely out of order. Air was a total pain and lots of cool web art/games/UI was left in the desert. Relieved to feel I wasn't the only one who was cheesed off by these developments.
Thanks for watching. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Hi, good video. For some reason I can only export on animate with action script. When I go to export with HTML the program crashes. What can I do? I am on windows.
1) Make sure you are on latest version of Animate. 2) Contact adobe support. - I really don't know why that would be happening. Sorry.
Can I use the HTML Wrapper that comes as an option inside the ActionScript format publishing configuration window, to still be able to run AS3 interactive game in a browser?
Hi I’m not sure what the concern is. It should work fine as long as the flash plugin is available. As of December 2020 chrome will not have flash.
Thanks for making this video!
Adding to it, Actions riot is also awesome to create local applications like interactive kiosk maps and content for digital billboards!
Thanks! I didn't know about that.
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I've seen interactive games built in AS so I'm not sure I get the rationale to choose html5 for interactivity ?
Thanks for watching. If you want your game to run natively in a web browser it must be HTML5. Flash Player is no longer supported in Chrome 😥. Safari ending support soon. Adobe Air which does support AS3 is now maintained by a company called Harman.
Your so CUTE!!!hahaha
cool
Great Video!
how can I cobvert swf to html using animate cc
You can convert an fla source file to a canvas fla. not sure about a swf. Best to ask in adobe forums.
felt like yet another college lecture
Plazma Ghost yeah that was the intention. No one talks about or explains this stuff any more. Figured it was worth putting some time into for those that care.
@@snorklTV ;-;
Can I use Animate CC 2019 for read/write text files? I know I know... you will say, why you don't use python or similar... but the truth is that I need to read files, then base on that I would be drawing some stuff in the screen, then everything would be visually and interactive (a desktop app), then based on what the user does, write back a file etc... I just wish to do something like that with the benefit of designing the visual part using Flash IDE (Animate).
Saxofonias that’s entirely possible with animate if you export to the adobe air runtime and use as3
Thank you for making this excellent video! Many high schools in Norway used flash-as3 in a multimedia development course for high school students. Now it has been mainly, but not totally, replaced by java script, CCS and HTML, or similar languages. I use AS3-with Aniamte CC in my high school for many years and I am so confident that is gives a very effective and solid introduction to the object oriented programming itself. My students learn and master it very quickly and we enjoy making many creative, useful and cool apps.
Cool. Nice to hear that schools in Norway have these programs. Very smart! - thanks for watching.