Free animation software from Toon Boom Animation

Hi Everyone
Hope this is not considered spamming the forum but wanted to share some exciting news with everyone.
Toon Boom Animation is at the CES show in Las Vegas and we are giving away free animation software to anyone who goes to http://www.toonboom.com/doodle/ This is a great way for anyone starting out in animation drawing and wants to try out their creative skills and all parents who would like to get your kids involved in an interesting activity that keeps them busy while teaching them creativity that they can use later on in their life.
There is no catch and you never have to purchase anything. This is simply our way of giving back and the license for Flip Boom Doodle animation software never expires.
Download the free animation software at http://www.toonboom.com/doodle/ and you can be on your way to create fun animated videos using Flip Boom’s drawing tools and easy-to-use templates. Once you are done with your animation creation, it can be uploaded directly to a Facebook profile page directly from within Flip Boom Doodle to be shared with your friends .

Hi X, sorry for the delay.
If I drop a 30fps ProRes HQ quicktime into a 1030p ProRes HQ sequence, I get the preview-like quality I wrote about earlier.
However if I change the sequence compressor to regular ProRes and render, it displays sharp as it should but still has the bad interlacing. The plasma I'm monitoring with can't display 108030p though so I'm judging this from an apple cinema display.
Exporting from this timeline to 108060i ProRes has the same problem.
Do you think it's possible the characters in the cartoon move too great a distance between frames that it's causing this issue?
Thanks

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We have a history of our formal designs that well be lost sooner if (Free hand) is not back once more. because he no longer works on Mac os 10:10 and (Fh11) format no longer Known from other softwares.
We dream that your great and decent company responds for many Graphic Designers and Launch (Adobe Free Hand) software to become the strongest, the newest and the fastest software in the vector world.
We need that software strongly and we have a great hope in your decent company that makes our future better.
I know that my opinion is simple, but i'm sure they'll find an ear to hear and a mind to understand our needs

babya10 wrote:
it appears Adobe won't consider making Freehand available for download legally-according to what Adobe on Twitter at @AdobeCare told me:"
HI Anthony, sorry Freehand MX is not available for a download. Yes the activation servers were deactivated for this. ^SV"
If you are a legally licensed owned of Freehand, it's hard to find a legal download of the trial version ot use with the provided serial number that Adobe gave out when the Macromedia activation servers were shut down.
Now mostly, there are illegal/piracy type sites offering Freehand trial versions, etc.
i Find Affinity to be quite a interesting and promising alternative on the Mac.
You are right that Adobe has cut off the Trial downloads on their servers. They don't want to sell or support FreeHand anymore and I don't blame them since it is their CC apps that are important to them. This only means Adobe has washed their hands of FreeHand and it will drift into abandonware and that may not be a bad thing in the long run.
As for trial versions, I have copies of Macromedia FreeHand 10 and MX on a large number of old magazine CDs and these could be posted somewhere. I also agree that Affinity Designer is showing promise but still awkward with type tools and converting FreeHand files. I compare it to FHMX so it is a high hurdle to follow.
—Mark

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