Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020

**gwpriester** · 04 January 2021, 04:17 PM

And now they are frozen in time. Too bad about Flash. And yes, it is time for Xara to revisit another orphaned feature.

**rsrsrs** · 07 January 2021, 06:46 AM

i would like to have animated svg, like

https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ht=#post605892

;-)

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 January 2021, 09:07 PM

Just for you rsCubed:

LINK

**Jonopen** · 07 January 2021, 10:18 PM

Egg, I am more than little spooked by that! That is so close to how the original flash animation used to look. I’m definitely going to investigate animating svg’s. Was that done using Vivus?

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 January 2021, 10:51 PM

Whoops! Didn't mean to spook you Jono

No this was created in SVGator

I have the Pro version for $144 per year but they have a free version so you can try it out. A bit of a learning curve required and unlike Flash you can't have .swf's loading other .swf's but you can get around this. Their customer support is excellent. The company is a Veitnamese I believe.

Xara exported svg's import very nicely into svgator. Only issue I have it uses a 72ppi values (obviously an IOS cross-over) rather than Windows 96dpi.

**Egg Bramhill** · 08 January 2021, 12:08 AM

This one has four svg place holders overlayed on each other. The fish animation is 20 secs long, the three weed animations are 3 secs long and just resized and repositioned in Xara. The weeds have tweens, which are smooth.

LINK

**handrawn** · 08 January 2021, 01:21 PM

looks good egg - can you add sound in the program or would you need to sync it in another program? thanks

**Initiostar** · 09 January 2021, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

This one has four svg place holders overlaid on each other. The fish animation is 20 secs long, the three weed animations are 3 secs long and just resized and repositioned in Xara. The weeds have tweens, which are smooth.

LINK

You can convert SVG to MP4 and add sound thereafter: didn't have the original SVG so this is a HD 1920x 1080 screen recording. Converted to a UHD 4k MP4/H264 video: https://initiostar.co.uk/demo/SVG-4k.mp4

Clearly you lose the SVG scalability and some quality, but it's a neat way of taking an animation where you then have full editing capabilities to add any content to it (as well as other SVG animations). Easy to add the MP4 to any Xara document.

SVG to MP4: https://www.onlineconvert.com/SVG-to-MP4

Lightworks Video Suite -Beta2021.1: https://www.lwks.com

Gary