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Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
Probably time for Xara to do a bit of spring cleaning!
Way back, I had some great fun using Flash, but the best stuff was always produced using action script, which I could never quite get my head around.
These fish used to swim from one side of the page to the other! (how exciting! :D).
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Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
And now they are frozen in time. Too bad about Flash. And yes, it is time for Xara to revisit another orphaned feature.
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Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
Just for you rsCubed:
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Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
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?
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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.
Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
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.
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Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
looks good egg - can you add sound in the program or would you need to sync it in another program? thanks
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Hi HD. Not as far as I know. I don't think audio and svgs can be put together. I'll do a quick search.
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Apparently you can. However not on the software I'm using.
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thanks for that, I'll look into it...
Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
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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.
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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
Re: Official support for Flash ended 31 December 2020
thanks again for that
MP4/MOV are the formats I use, but not for websites which I don't build
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Cheers for that Gary, very sweet.
I've added an mp3 player to the xar file, not ideal but keeps the filesize down.
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