Edge Animate vs. Flash Pro

What is the difference between these two softwares?
Im a little confused as to what tool I should be using to make Web and Mobile animations.
Thanks,
Brandon

Hello,
Today, Flash is less used for web development but more in the videogame industry. To see Flash content, you need the Flash player but you do not have it on Apple mobile devices.
Edge is mobile-friendly and generate html5 content as default that can be viewed on every mobile support.
Edge is still evolving, it will include more and more possibilities in the future. now we just have to wait for updates
p.s: you can export html5 content from Flash too, it uses the Canvas technology. See how to export html5 from Flash online - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-technology-sneaks-2012/export-to-html5-from-flash-professi onal/

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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.

Can we import Flash into Edge Animate

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I would like to know if we can import Flash animation into Edge Animate and into Muse

Hi Dan,
There is no such workflow as far as I know. However, Animate does support native HTML5 videos.
Edge Animate Help | Add video to animations
Also see Add engaging content from Edge Animate and Flash | Adobe Muse CC tutorials
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Preran

What advantage does Edge Animate contribute to Flash Pro cc when programming a multi-player (2-4 players) interactive online game?

What advantage does Edge Animate contribute to Flash Pro cc when programming a multi-player (2-4 players) interactive online game? If Edge Animate can contribute that advantage to Flash Pro, are any of the other Edge products necessary to program a multi-player interactive online game? This would be a PC based and not mobile game.

Additional comment by Phila Biblion: The game under consideration would be PC based and not mobile.

I need to translate a flash program with many pages to edge animate CC. Is there an easy way top build new pages, so that you can jump from one page to another withion the same file?

I have only seen in all the examples in books and on the net that edge animate works on one page only. Maybe I hve not fully understood the concept, but in flash it was easy. Perhaps there is also an easy way in edge animate?

You can either make a symbol for each page in the same composition or you can use edge commons composition loader to load several compositions into the same composition which serves as a container.

Are Adobe EVER going to make Edge Animate scale-to-fit (like Flash)?

I've been following the progress of Edge Animate (formerly Edge) ever since Steve Jobs decided he wasn't having Flash on the iPad.
With each new version I've been desperately looking for the feature that I consider the most important of all: Scale-to-fit
There are a couple of discussions already on this forum where people have requested this feature - but both have been sidetracked by replies from people who haven't understood what 'scale-to-fit' is. So let me explain Scale-to-fit:
I'm talking about the feature in Flash - where if the HTML dimensions are set to 'Percent' - then the resultant movie will scale-to-fit any browser window. Here is an example of what I mean:
http://www.skippingschool.co.uk
- try changing the browser size and you'll see the whole frame (graphics and images) scales without changing its proportions.
When the latest version of Edge Animate came out with its built-in easy-to-follow 'Resize' Lesson, I thought Adobe had finally found an answer. But good though this feature is, it doesn't solve the problem. It's only possible to properly scale-to-fit images - not graphics.
It's now more important than ever that Adobe finds a solution to this problem. The world is going 'Responsive' - its not just a fad. And 'Responsive' is not just about three columns being squeezed into one. All Responsive sites require images, graphics AND animations to scale-to-fit. So Adobe's tutorial showing how Edge Animate can be added to WordPress sites is of limited use because it won't work for Responsive web sites.
So please Adobe, will someone tell me if scale-to-fit is EVER going to happen? I don't mind if it's 3 months, 6 months, 9 months down the line - but I need to know if it's worth me sticking with Edge Animate - or whether I should be looking toward HTML5 Canvas or something else for a solution?
Alternatively, is there some fundamental reason why it can NEVER happen?
Please tell me? Just put me out of my misery!

Hi Sarah,
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sym.$("#Stage").css({ // Set the transform origin so we always scale to the top left corner of the stage
"transform-origin":"0 0",
"-ms-transform-origin":"0 0",
"-webkit-transform-origin":"0 0",
"-moz-transform-origin":"0 0",
"-o-transform-origin":"0 0"
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How do you change the workspace panel color in Edge Animate CC (the stage is OK) to a lighter gray, I have the dark gray now. I have Win 7 Pro SP3?

How do you change the workspace panel color in Edge Animate CC (the stage is OK) to a lighter gray, I have the dark gray now. I have Win 7 Pro SP3?

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Is Edge Animate intended to replace Flash? I have worked with Flash for almost 15 years and love it, what is its future?

With Apple rejecting mobile support for Flash and Apple's dominance in those markets, I believe Edge is Adobe's attempt to stay relevant in areas where Flash is not (HTML5, JQuery the new web darlings). As far as Flash's future it's an open question, I don't think it's predicament is Adobe's fault, but end users that use it primarily for it's animation/video prowess,which it's great at. Few use it's ability to marry the former with it's ability to retrieve and serve data as another part of an interactive banner, for example. Plus the tablet market is in flux. Apple is still the dominant player but it's market share is slipping (most other tablets support flash), at least in the recent fiscal quarters. I have worked on a two large jobs in which this situation was ignored and upon completion the reality set in and I'm sorry to say, heads rolled. They didn't listen to the market, which Adobe is doing or heging. That's my two cents.

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I want to create an interactive animation for PC, cellphones tablets etc. Since most cellphones do not support flash I decided to do this in HTML5. Flash cc supports html5 canvas but the response time of the simple buttons I created is just awful and buggy. After researching I found out that everyone suggest Edge for html5 content. My problem is in edge I do not have any brush or pen tools which I need for my animations. So I would have to create vector animations in flash and export them to edge. I have found absolutely nothing to do this. I can either export as swf which the majority of cellphones do not support or videos that are non vector or non vector image sequences. I can publish flash cc html5 canvas as html/js but I cant Import it to edge. Am I missing something or why isn't this possible?

Hi Alhab
One way to do this is, exporting your content from Flash to Edge Animate as sprite sheets. The following discussion might help you to bring your content from Flash to Animate.
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Edge animate cc Audio does not play on mobile phones & iPod though it plays perfectly on an mac pro

I have uploaded an edge animate cc published html with sound. The html file opens perfectly on my mac pro safari browser perfectly with audio. But when I open the same file on my iphone5 the file opens but no the audio does not play. What wrong does anybody have an answer?

You are right. But there detail. If Online audio will be downloaded to this user interaction. Depending on your animation will all be out of sync with the audio. For the timeline will run before. I do not know how to do but needed to put a stop to that timeline only run when the audio is downloaded. I had problems in IOS and Android with audio using adobe edge previous version before they even have audio support. Used Edgehero who answered my expectations very well. Only had this same problem but it was solved this way.
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Flash Timeline Animation to Edge Animate CC?

I have a client with an old Flash CS4 Presentation file that uses Forms and Slides and they want to update their presentation to HTML. I am not concerned about the presentation functionality or shell as my developer will create a new one... But, the presentation contains a bunch of timeline animations that demo their product.
I don't want to export the animations out using the Canvas tag, or as a movie or image sequence.
I am new to Edge, but I am thinking this is the solution for the animations.
Is there a way to export/import these Flash timeline animations into Edge? Or even, at the very least, import the assets into Edge?
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Carol

What kind of animations do you have? If you have scenes in Flash you can reproduce that in Edge Animate with symbols. For small animations like a runner for example you can create a spritesheet with Flash and use it in Animate. You will have to use the clip tool and display on/off to set it up. Rigth now it takes several tools to go from Flash to Animate but Animate is quite adequate to reproduce what was done in Flash.

Help needed! From Flash Professional to Edge Animate poll.

If you have used Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Edge Animate, please answer this 12-question poll. I'm studying in a university at the moment, and to complete the assignment that I have to do, I created a simple poll to find out, how users of Flash Professional can adapt to animating in Edge Animate. I'd appreciate it alot, if you answered this poll!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEZCdHp3SGVSOEdseEM2WG5MMk1xdUE6MQ
Thank you!

hi heldeJ,
i just filled out your poll. I'm a flash developer who is moving to edge and would be interested in seeing the results of your poll. Good luck with it!
best regards,
-sharon

Import flash animation into edge animate

Hi,
I need to import a flash vector cartoon style animation into edge animate, do you know how can I do it?
Kind regards,
eugenxi

Hi eugenxi,
You can use the Export Png Sequence feature included with Flash CS6 to export a series of pngs from your symbol animation (tut by Tom Green):
http://layersmagazine.com/png-sequence-from-flash-cs6.html
Then import the pngs to Fireworks, and use John Dunning's plugin to export a symbol directly to Edge Animate:
http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/EdgeAnimate

Oh wow finally apart of a community im so excited. Hi everyone. I just got abode edge animate and am not so familiar wif this product though i sense a hint of flash buried there somewhere can you guys please assist me in the basics of edge? thanks.

Oh wow finally apart of a community im so excited. Hi everyone. I just got abode edge animate and am not so familiar wif this product though i sense a hint of flash buried there somewhere can you guys please assist me in the basics of edge? thanks.

That's going to be a ridiculous waste of money and energy.
First of all, the current ATI drivers don't support multiple GPUs, so at the moment even a single 4870X2 would be only a 'normal' 4870 (which is quite a speed beast already). GFX drivers evolve rapidly, so things might look different next month, but when it comes to Linux and hardware there's one Golden Rule: stay away from the newest stuff and wait for proper support to get coded.
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I kind of understand that you want to get it done and not worry about hardware for the next 10 years or so, but that's simply not how the hardware world works and never did. At least not for the average consumer.

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I've been using Flash for many years, and am now creating html5 animations. Just curious, why would I want to use Edge animate to create html5 animation, when I could just make an animation in Flash CC, and then export as html5 canvas? Do both Flash and Edge basically render the same thing (in terms of html/css/js), or are there differences? Thanks!

Re the topic of this discussion - I'd been wondering the same thing.
Until recently, I assumed there was no real difference other than the interface (I prefer the Edge layout - it's closer to video editing - but wish they would undo the changes made to the code editor since CC 2014. I need as many JavaScript hints as possible!).
But now I'm looking at the area of ebooks and there are problems with Edge animations on iPads, even though they are indeed HTML5. See Adobe discussion here: https://forums.adobe.com/message/6550864
On the one hand, iBooks may have a problem with content in iFrames. (I'm not into coding - but the Adobe guy in the other forum alluded to as much.)
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I am a Flash Pro convert, which means I know action script, but not html, html5 or js. I found a training video that talks about embedding youtube video through the use of a container and creationComplete coding. However, I would prefer not using embeded youtube video (since I think it still requires flash player). I also was unable to even make the youtube embeding work.
I downloaded a html5 player/converter thinking I could convert the video to html5 video and drop the associated code into my composition. But unfortunately, I don't know if this is possible or where I might "drop" the code in. I've searched for several hours for a solution to this problem and have found very little information related to my issue.
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