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olsonjj · 2006-01-15 #12

Pleae Please Please... do NOT dumb down AfterEffects to be more like Flash --- make Flash more like AfterEffects, unless you make a completely new product (or revive an old one). Sorry to everyone who wants AfterEffects to be easier, but AE is far superior to Flash when it comes to control. Editing of keyframe data and f-curves in AE provides so much control. Yes -- there is a learning curve, but its worth it. An AE timeline in Flash would rock.

If Adobe doesn't want to mess with the Flash timeline, make an AfterEffects Elements package , aka "LiveMotion Reborn", that is a slimmed down, much cheaper, and that has direct support for Flash by exporting to the FLA file format. Personally, I liked LiveMotion, although it didn't create very efficient SWF files, and coding AS was horrible.

[edited to fix spelling mistake]

	olsonjj	2006-01-15 #12
	Last edited by olsonjj : 2006-01-15 at 14:45. Pleae Please Please... do NOT dumb down AfterEffects to be more like Flash --- make Flash more like AfterEffects, unless you make a completely new product (or revive an old one). Sorry to everyone who wants AfterEffects to be easier, but AE is far superior to Flash when it comes to control. Editing of keyframe data and f-curves in AE provides so much control. Yes -- there is a learning curve, but its worth it. An AE timeline in Flash would rock. If Adobe doesn't want to mess with the Flash timeline, make an AfterEffects Elements package , aka "LiveMotion Reborn", that is a slimmed down, much cheaper, and that has direct support for Flash by exporting to the FLA file format. Personally, I liked LiveMotion, although it didn't create very efficient SWF files, and coding AS was horrible. [edited to fix spelling mistake]