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What replaced Flash?

Adobe Flash became Adobe Animate. Whether or not that fills your needs is impossible for me to say. There are other things out there but they all depend on what specifically you want to create. ...
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What is the difference between After Effects and Flash/Animate for animation?

Adobe AfterEffects is a composite tool where you put video, image and 3D content to create a final product. To that end there is a large set of tools, plug-ins and scripts such as tracking, effect ...
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How to create basic animations of Illustrator files?

Animation is not terribly hard, per se. It is just that doing animation is time consuming and requires some practice. The reason why you do not see very many people around you doing animation is in ...
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No sound after Flash GIF is exported

The GIF format does not, and never has, supported audio. GIF is purely an image format.
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What is the difference between After Effects and Flash/Animate for animation?

I was trying After Effects for the same purpose as you for a while then recently I tried Adobe Animate for the same type of animation: My primary problem was the shape tween tool for animate vector ...
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Why is this simple, masked animation flickering?

Your movie clip 'piechartmask1' has a blank keyframe at the end of its timeline, and that's why it is disappearing (flickering out). You could shorten the symbol to be only a single frame in duration; ...
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Export to vector format from After Effects

You can export to the vector format SVG using an AfterEffects plugin called Bodymovin. It has some limitations, but is a very useful plugin. If you really want to export to Flash, export to SWF ...
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How to move a movieclip along a custom path in Flash?

Draw a path on its own layer Cut your path Cmd / Ctrl+X Have your MovieClip Layer Selected Create the desired length of the animation and Insert Frames Then select your Movieclip, right click and ...
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Static Text and embed text both greyed out Flash CC professional

It is your file type. When you create a new doc, make sure to make correct choice... ie. create an Actionscript3 file and not an html file. HTML canvas greys out the text options and a lot more.
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Inserting interpolated "in-between" frames to a frame animation in Flash

You can create a shape tween to transform the frames by adding interpolated results in between. Read this help page on shape tweening. However, this only really works out in cases where you planned&...
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Is Adobe Flash back from the dead? Seeing Flash web content on iPad

Many sites use Flash fallbacks. They detect if the browser supports flash, and if it doesn't, they swap in some alternative content instead. Usually it'll be a static image, sometimes it might be a ...
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What is the difference between After Effects and Flash/Animate for animation?

To me Adobe Animate is like a stripped down version of After Effects. It does do Frame by Frame animation better but you can get programs like Toon Boom or TV Paint to do it much better and they have ...
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What is the easiest way to convert 2D images to single 3D model

There is no easy way, 3 images is not enough to determine the shape of an object in 3D, unless its simply a very blocky object. Having more orthogonal projections does not guarantee anything. This ...
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Why can't I use smoothing with the pencil tool?

Maybe answering a bit late, but you need to change your pencil mode: from freehand or straighten (where you can't edit the smoothing) to smoothing where you can edit the smoothing value. Hope this ...
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How to increase resolution in Adobe flash

That's simply not how it works. When you export a GIF the resolution won't matter, the size in pixels will. If you want your animation to be sharper, it has to be larger. Changing resolution and ...
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Source of a 2D vector skeleton?

Search for "skeleton SVG" or "skeleton vector", you should be able to find free sources. Ultimately search in stock images websites, there are plenty of sites where you can buy a vector file for a few ...
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How to duplicate swipe gallery

Just rename all the var (currentGalleryItem, totalGalleryItems, slideCounter, slideLeft, moveGalleryLefta, etc. ) or i have rename all the var download and just copy paste.
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Jump to page in SWF viewer generated by InDesign

You can create buttons inside the InDesign document that point to pages, but you can't load the document to a certain page. If there's no interactivity in the InDesign doc, you could export to a FLA ...
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Terrible results with exporting animated gif's in Adobe Animate

It's hard to say anything by looking at one frame. This is like trying to figure the color of an object by observing its shadow. I have my doubts about get any better results with AE. An animated ...
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how to change color of instances of a symbol

You can find the Adobe Flash Professional CS5 & CS5.5 Help as a PDF here. You should read through it, save it and use that for future reference. From Working with symbol instances Creating ...
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Is Adobe Animate CC suitable for these animations?

Yes, it is. In addition, Animate / Flash, is more lightweight and comfortable for those things than After Effects.
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How to browse the code for adobe flash animation

No that's not at all what ActionScript (AS) is. AS is used inside Flash (.fla) files to do programmatic elements such as buttons, jump frames, create movie clip instances and all sorts of other ...
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Is it possible to use Adobe Flash CS6 with a touchscreen laptop?

I have this same problem and it prevents me from drawing in flash/photoshop because of the scrolling issue. For people reading this in 2016 onwards and asking the same question here is what worked ...
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What's the best way to animate an illustration for the web?

If you work with After Effects you can use Bodymovin plug-in. It renders your work for mobile and web use. You'll have .json and lottie.js file which you can use in your HTML. But first you'll have to ...
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Is there a program that draws vectors the way Flash does?

If there is anyone in 2022 looking for this solution, I’ve found that Adobe Animate is about as close to the original Macromedia Flash tools and functions. Wick Editor isn’t bad for a free program. ...
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