Edge Animate vs After Effects

I am very new to these tools, so please pardon if this is a ridiculous question. What is the difference between Edge Animate and After Effects? Is one better for web design? Thanks,

If you do not need interactivity, then AEffect is still a great tool to use. If you need interactivity then EAnimate is great as well

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Import edge animate into after effects

Hi, is there any possibility to import a file that is created in edge animate into after effects?

I don't think you can as they are both two different technologies. Understand that an Edge Animate file is really an HTML5 file. The actual stage that is used when creating your Edge Animate file will also import an HTML file.
Maybe one of the Adobe mods can chime in to help.

Why wont Edge Animate preview after placing .oam file in Muse?

I placed my Edge Animate Animation into Muse but it wont preview when I select preview. It does not even show image or play animation. I followed instruction to place edge animation and in publish setting selected the animate deployment package. Deselected the frameworks via CDN (read this should not be selected but also tried it selected) made sure the stage is transparent. I saved it and published.. In Muse I selected the Place option and selected the .oam file and placed it into my webpage. The placed file shows with animation image. I made sure to link the asset to file but it will not preview or play animation. Please help!
Thank you,
Lynn

Does it loop when you publish it to the web?

Find object's edge coordinates in After Effects

Hello,
first of all, I'm sorry if the answer to my question is already posted somewhere … I'm a bit confused I didn't just find one somewhere in the web already—don't know if I perhaps look for the wrong terms or if it's really such a special question I have …
Anyway, my question is: how can I get the coordinates of all four edges from objects (images) in a three dimensional composing in After Effects? And also, is there a way to see the actual coordinates of the camera that I have moved by several parented objects?
In case, this might be of interest, here's a more detailed description of my situation: I have made a little three dimensional composing in After Effects with scaled and rotated images an a moving camera. I want to show the composing within a tablet app and my first plan was to render it and put the movie into the app, but now my programmer and I think it might be better to generate the composing directly within the app. So my programmer needs the said coordinates to rebuild the composing in his code (as far as I know, he uses Xcode and writes the app in Objective-C).
Hope you guys can help me …
Cheers!
Theo
(I use After Effects CC on Mac OS X 10.9.)

Edges/ lines are determined by the coordinates of their end points - basic planar geometry. You can get those by using the toWorld() method and filling in the corner point coordinates relative to the layer anchor point, e.g.:
TopRight2D=[50,-50];
TopRight3D=thisLayer.toWorld(TopRight2D)
Easy as Pi (or pie if you prefer).
Mylenium

Play Edge Animate content AFTER Page finishes loading

Is there any way, either in Edge or Muse, to have the edge animations wait until the Muse page finishes loading before starting to play?
thanks

I find no way within Muse to accomplish what you want.
In An you can always just delay the start of your animation(s) for a specificed time.
That may now work very smooth though because everyone's systems will load the pre-animation page at differing speeds.
I'm NOT a js coder but I was looking at some of the generated js code and I have a feeling a good js person could make your animation do what you want.
I see different 'load' perameters mentioned. Maybe one of those could be used.
I'll bet your answer is somewhere in that *_edgePreload.js file.
http://www.lynda.com/home/Player.aspx?lpk4=107145&playChapter=False
That video talks about turning off Auto Play in An and using js for control. It doesn't mention how to do it, just that it can be done.

Can't see Edge Animate after logging in

I am not able to view the Edge Animate app after I login with my adobe ID

Check the your system specs. It should meet the minimum system requirement for Edge Animate to be visible.
http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/tech-specs.html

Edge Animate CC 2014 running very slow / sluggish on tutorials and personal projects.

Hi there, I've been trying to get Edge Animate up to speed with the other adobe products I use with no problems (Muse, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects). I've followed the proxy settings suggestion mentioned in previous posts (my computer isn't on a proxy), as well as setting my color management options to default, and trying a wide range of others to see if the problem would go away (per another response I saw).
I even upgraded from Windows 7 to 8.1, just to see if that'd fix the issue, to no avail.
I first noticed it with this tutorial:
Banner design tutorial | How to make a web banner with Edge Animate CC
After importing the assets into EA, I go to add text and the text entry field records my input at about 1 character per second. It also happens with my own personal projects quite often.
I've got an AMD FX 6100 Six-Core Processor
               8GB of RAM
               ATI Radeon 6900
               and Windows 8.1 Pro
I'd be willing to try anything, and any help is appreciated!

OK - Possibly Good News... I talked to Adobe Tech Support. I am able to download a previous version of the Edge Animate CC by choosing PREVIOUS VERSION under the FIND NEW APPS section of the Creative Cloud Desktop app. This is a new feature of CC. Thankfully. I can install CC and then do as hemanth kumar r suggested and edit the _edge.js file to allow 3.0 to open the file.
Thanks for all of the help. Sorry for the frustration in MY TYPING . I'll reply if that all works.

Edge animate not starting corectly in Win 8.1

This is the screen when Edge Animate starts up after I have attempted to set stage size which initially appear without any dimensions!
Sometimes I only get the following:
I have re-installed and the same thing occurs. I am installing this through the Adobe Creative Cloud app. I have other Adobe products installed the same way and have had no other problems.
Any ideas what may be causing this behaviour?

Have changed C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe and renamed the Edge Animate folder to Old Edge Animate with no effect.
I have run TCPview and checked that port 54321 is not being used, although I have never got that particular error message mentioned in the article.
I rebooted and ran Edge Animate and got to the following non-responsive screen. The only option is to close the program.

How do I scale an Edge Animate comp afterwards?

Is it possible to scale an Edge Animate composition after you made it?
I made a composition, but I want to rescale the whole thing. I can change the stage values, but still have to resize all the elements. First of all that's a lot of work when you have a lot of elements and second of all the elements don't always keep doing what they're supposed to do for some reason.

moved to the DPS forum....

Lesson for Adobe Edge Animate

Hello Everyone.
OK. Have been doing Edge Lesson's for quite nearly a year now, and wanted to share them with the community.
If you have any request or questions, please feel free to post them to the video links below, or in here, and I will
Try my best to assist you any way that I can.
Edge Animate has really come a long ways, and with the new CC, it has taken on a life of its own.
Look forward to what the future may bring with this awesome Adobe program release.
Wayne Barron
Dark Effects Production
Adding sound to Mouseover event in Adobe Edge Animate
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Adobe Edge Animate - Mirror Text Effects with Wipe On Text (Lesson 3) (Remake)
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Adobe Edge Animate - Change Text when Button is clicked
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Adobe Edge Animate - Space Demonstration (Lesson coming soon!)
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Can After Effects CC handle this many Illustrator layers?

I designed a world map in Adobe Illustrator with many layers for a documentary about interwar Europe (1919-1939). The Illustrator map actually has 80 layers. Would this be a map with too many layers to animate in After Effects?
In AE I plan to add a camera to zoom in on parts of the map like Europe and the Middle East. But I'll also need to animate the opacity of individual layers to show territorial changes and invasions in Europe before and after 1919 Versailles Treaty and the 1938 Munich Agreement. The reason I have so many layers is that I thought I could use this one map in multiple different map animations for my film.
Can AE handle this many layers? Or is it wiser to keep the layers to a minimum number?
Also, is there no way in After Effects to group the layers other than pre-comping them? It would be great to be able to have sub-layers in AE like you can in Illustrator. I could then reduce the number of layers in my map from 80 to less than 20, by grouping all European states as sub-layers into a Europe layer, as so on for Africa, Asia, etc.
Unless I'm mistaken, Illustrator sub-layers are not visible in After Effects, are they?

Rick and Mylenium,
Thank you both for your feedback. Much appreciated. Mylenium, I'm sure you're right. I probably was trying to do too much in one map. I'll follow your suggestion and use the minimum number of layers for each scenario. I'm spending too much time as it is looking for particular layers among the 80.
I do wish it were possible in AE to simply group layers without pre-comping them though. Or that Illustrator sub-layers could be visible. It would really help to streamline the workflow. I suppose I could precomp all layers and then simply add a camera to the pre-comp.
Rick I'll try the expression controls and parenting, but can you elaborate a little further regarding your suggestion of pre-planning in Illustrator?
Thank you both again for your helpful suggestions.

Adding music on edge animate

How do i add music to my project

http://outof.me/edge-animate-adding-sound-effects/
video tutorail
watch this post for more information http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1251376?tstart=0

Is there a similar function in Edge Animate that is similar to the draw path function in After Effects?

Is there a similar function in Edge Animate that is similar to the draw path function in After Effects?

No, I'm afraid not. However, you can drop a clip from in to out into the timeline and the hit CMD+R and grab the end, changing the length of the clip to fit in the space that you need by speeding up the clip.
Hope that helps.
Andy

After Effects vs Edge Animate vs Flash vs Photoshop

Hi - I am looking to create short (cartoon) animated training videos with voice and/or music to be posted on companies' intranets in MP4. What is the best software for this purpose?
I have been looking for a comparison chart (in laymans terms) describing the similarities and differences between the porgrams, the output files they can produce and the pros and cons of using each.
Thanks!
Tracy

These apps are completely different animals. If you are going to produce training videos that are more than a few seconds long then you need and editing program like Premiere Pro to edit the shots and do the sound and music mixing. After Effects or something like Cartoon Smart can be used to create the cartoons. Premiere Pro will take you about a week to get a handle on, After Effects will take quite a bit longer. If you have not done any cartoon animation before then you either have to know how to draw and understand the principals of cell animation or use something like Cartoon Smart to create your characters. Edge Animate and Flash are for creating interactive animations not for making movies. You can embed movies in either and both have long and steep learning curves to do something like you are describing.
Photoshop if for editing photographs and if you are a skilled artist you can use it for creating original artwork from scratch. Illustrator is probably better suited to create cartoons. There is no program that you can just buy and a week later produce a commercial product. The hardest part of training videos is not the animation, it's the writing. Most online training is really awful because of poor writing so that's where you should start. Either learn to write training or hire or collaborate with a good writer, figure out a style that you want to emulate, make it your own, learn the appropriate software, make a good demo, then go out and pitch your work. The last training videos that I worked on that were mostly animation had a production team of 15 people and we worked for a month to produce 5 hours of quality training. About 750 man hours were spent on the project. Cartoons are not fast and easy. There are no magic buttons you can press to make things work out in minutes.
If you give us an example that shows exactly the kind of thing you want to do then we can give you an idea of production techniques to achieve your goal, production time per finished minute, and the amount of time you can expect to spend learning how to use the software to create the product.

Edge Animate Scroll Effects must loop, cant stop at end?

I have an Edge Animate composition that I have inserted into Muse and have selected and checked the box for Edge Animate Scroll Effects. The Edge Animate compositon is of a piece of text that is set to shrink to about half size and then stop once it reaches the end of it's timeline. In the scroll animation I created, as the page is scrolled the text travels from the center of the home page, starting at full size, to the upper left side, where it reaches the end of it's Edge Animate timeline and should rest as a logo in the banner at half size. The problem I'm encountering is that Muse ignores the stop action at the end of the timeline and instead loops through the timeline over and over, causing the text to continuously go from full size to half size and then back again after it comes to rest in the upper left corner of the banner as the page is further scrolled, even though I have a stop action placed at the end of the Edge Animate timeline.
Must an Edge Animate Scroll effect loop continuously as the page is scrolled, or is there a way to make them stop at the end of the Animate timeline? Obviously, having it scroll off the page before it begins to loop over again would not be a solution, given that I want it to rest in the upper left corner as a logo…
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

The answer is quite straightforward
you cannot stop the animation from looping in MUSE if you linked it to scrolling
BUT
you can still do it in EDGE ANIMATE - the technic which works for me is to put a "trigger" like STOP at 30 or 40s at the end of the timeline of your animation.
Then for MUSE it will be considered as an "ongoing" animation and will not loop. Still the user keep the possibility to "scroll backward" and deconstruct the animation while scrolling which is I believe what you were seeking.
Check this ongoing project if you want the visualisation of it. Master Square
Best regards,
Charlelie - Old-Continent

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