JD99 0 Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Hi ... I'm hoping someone can assist me. I am in the preliminary stages of choosing a program for creating animation and video for the Web, specifically for Mobile Devices and Desktops. I understand Flash Player will no longer be developed for mobile devices. My questions are as follows: Can I create an animation in Adobe Flash Pro, export the animation as a .MOV or .AVI and be able to upload the animation to the web so it is playable on mobile devices and desktops ? What program would you recommend I learn in order to create animation and videos for Mobile Devices and Desktops, taking into consideration HTML 5 ? I know the basics of HTML 4 and CSS but for the last 10 years I've been working as a Network professional. Your help is very appreciated. Thanks, Jason Quote Link to post Share on other sites
justsomeguy 1,135 Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 You can't export to a video directly from Flash, but you may be able to use the Flash Media Encoder to go from a SWF or FLA file to a movie. For SVG animations in HTML 5, there is a list of programs here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Animation-(Timeline) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JD99 0 Posted August 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty new to Flash. I am using Flash Professional CS 5.5 and I did the following steps to create an AVI file: Opened Flash Pro CS 5.5. Selected "Animation" from "Create from Template". Selected "Animated Mask Motion Tween" from the templates. I played the animation. I then selected File \ Export \ Export Movie. From the "Save as type" I selected "Windows AVI". I clicked Save. I then played the AVI file and it played successfully and showed the animation. I'm assuming I could convert the file for mobile viewing and could use the AVI for desktop viewing ? Or can .AVI's and .MOV's be played on Mobile devices ? Thanks for the help ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
justsomeguy 1,135 Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 They can be played on any device that supports them, I can't really comment on which devices support which formats. I know what my own phone supports and that's about it. There's a discussion about it here, it looks like he ended up encoding the video 3 or 4 different ways: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4112924/video-codec-settings-to-support-all-major-mobile-devices-in-html5-player Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JD99 0 Posted August 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Great .... Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marry 0 Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 I would like to answer your second question. HTML5 is hgetting common but still I think that Flash is not died. As Some browsers still not supports HTML5 and Some people don`t know about it yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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