Merging Flash with Animation Presets

Hi there,
I just downloaded After Effects, and though it seems pretty
powerfull, in my opinion is not flexible when it comes to animating
objects within the Timeline like Flash. I would love for Flash 8
Professional, to have all those animating presets within it. What
do you think? I mean, yes we all those powerfull special effects
within After Effects, but I feel that for animation purposes is
lacking......I think Adobe would really do something special, if
those special effects could somehow be built into
Flash.........What are your opinions regarding this?
Thanks and God Bless...

Hi,
This is a great suggestion. One of the most interesting
features that makes Flash designers use After Effect is the
powerful preset and effects in the great product. You can get it to
your Flash as video, bitmap sequance or even SWF file if you choose
a feature that can be exproted as SWF.
I have staarted learning animation with Flash too, so i may
agree with you regarding the easy use of Flash timeline. But after
i worked with After Effects, I relized that its timeline is easy
too, may be it includes more features than the Flash timeline,
because of the nature of the output of AE.
you have to learn how to deal with the AE timeline with the
AE concept not the Flash concept to not feel strange to it.

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DragunX5 wrote:
> Hello there everyone,
>
> Ive just purchased Flash CS3 and i can not for the life
of me find the option
> for the Text animation presets and effects. Does this
version still have them
> or did they scrap it?
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks
>

[svn] 2395: Merging Flash Player 10 Beta 2 SWF support to 3.0.3' s swfutils library.

Revision: 2395
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-07-08 15:51:08 -0700 (Tue, 08 Jul 2008)
Log Message:
Merging Flash Player 10 Beta 2 SWF support to 3.0.3's swfutils library.
QE: Yes, keep an eye out for any changes. None are expected, this is just basic swfutils support for encoding/decoding SWF 10 files.
Doc: No
Checkintests: Pass
Reviewer: Jono
Bugs:
SDK-16034
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16034
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.3/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagDecoder.java
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.3/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.3/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/PlaceObject.java
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.3/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxParser.java
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.3/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxPrinter.java

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