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Question about Flash

Postby bakura_fan » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:22 pm

-_- I wanna get the program Flash *or whatever it's called* The one that let's you make the flash productions...or whatever they're called too.... So...any idea where I can get it..and how much it is?
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Postby Godly Paladin » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:29 pm

You might get more visibility on this if you put it in the Computing section.
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Postby bakura_fan » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:37 pm

-_- I can't really move it.....*sweatdrop*
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[color=DeepSkyBlue] "He lives in you. He lives in me. [/color]He watches over everything we see.
Into the water. Into the truth. [color=Yellow][color=DeepSkyBlue]In your reflection, He lives in you." - He lives in you chorus[/color][/color]
"Slow, love, slow. Time's so fast. Now goes quickly, see Now it's past!
Soon will come, Soon will last. Wait." [color=Yellow]- Wait (sweeney todd) [/color]

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Postby inkhana » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:57 pm

S'ok, I'll get it.

Flash is a pretty expensive bundle...you can get a trial from Macromedia.com. Me personally...I preferred Swish, it's a lot easier to handle for a beginner (although admittedly, it doesn't have the same amount of power, but it's a lot less expensive).


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Postby Arbre » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:06 pm

Macromedia at least *used* to offer a free 30 day trial of it from their website. I don't know if it's still there, though. I downloaded that over a year ago, I think.
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Postby bakura_fan » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:35 pm

what's Swish?
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[color=DeepSkyBlue] "He lives in you. He lives in me. [/color]He watches over everything we see.
Into the water. Into the truth. [color=Yellow][color=DeepSkyBlue]In your reflection, He lives in you." - He lives in you chorus[/color][/color]
"Slow, love, slow. Time's so fast. Now goes quickly, see Now it's past!
Soon will come, Soon will last. Wait." [color=Yellow]- Wait (sweeney todd) [/color]

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Postby redkorn » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:11 pm

swish is an easy to use flash program and cheap also, thats what i use since it easy&cheap to make my animations.
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Postby Gypsy » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:24 am

Swish is excellent for text animation - it has some effects and actions built right in that are a pain in the butt to create in Flash. If you do actually take the plunge and get a Macromedia product, I'd suggest Flash MX. It's not the newest version of Flash out there, but Flash 2004 is very programmer oriented. Flash 2004's interface makes the assumption that you're an average programmer and there's less pre-written script in the library. Also, a lot of the commands that you learn in Flash MX have changed in Flash 2004. While I'm sure they had their reasons for it, it was not a cool thing to do in my book.

If you're looking to do some light animation for the web, then I'd say go with everyone else's suggestion and check out Swish.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:27 pm

yes, its quite difficult to understand, all I was able to do was make mr. bean sing "im blue" with that over-used cut-out mouth moving up and down.

then i gave up. I don't have it now, which is probably good.
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Postby Mithrandir » Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:56 am

Whoa. Flash MX is already outdated? *sigh*

BTW: You can get Flash via Student Discount and save about $50.00, I think.
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