Outdated Program?

[SmiteTheHero]

I've animated on my older accounts before and I wanna start again, but would you class Macromedia Flash 8 Pro outdated? Is Adobe CS3 better? And how?

[Jomillex]

At 4/3/12 09:34 PM, SmiteTheHero wrote: I've animated on my older accounts before and I wanna start again, but would you class Macromedia Flash 8 Pro outdated? Is Adobe CS3 better? And how?

I use Cs3 and used to use Flash 8. Honestly I cant tell much of a difference the only one i can think of is the brushes are smaller on Cs3. However, Cs3 is a step up from flash 8 which allows you to down-save as Flash 8 files. There are a couple weird shape tools I don't use but if you do frame by frame the tools are useless, and there are newer tweens i believe but again with fbf their for the most part useless to me.
If you are Paying for cs3 dot bother there aren't enough additions to the software from flash 8.

Summed up. Not many differences if your paying for the upgrade don't bother. If its "Free" go for it, it can't hurt. :)

[Cordyceps]

Do you need AS3? If yes, get CS3.

If no, stick with 8.

[nuke505]

At 4/3/12 10:57 PM, Cordyceps wrote: Do you need AS3? If yes, get CS3.

If no, stick with 8.

i have cs5 and i dont like it. i havent had too much experience with flash 8, but i heard it was a lot better. if i was going to get a program it would be that. i mean look around, a lot of top notch animations are still made in flash 8 so i dont consider it obselete at all. plus, cs3,4,5 crash constantly and prove to be a major pain. so i say stick with flash 8

[Carr77]

At 4/3/12 09:34 PM, SmiteTheHero wrote: I've animated on my older accounts before and I wanna start again, but would you class Macromedia Flash 8 Pro outdated? Is Adobe CS3 better? And how?

Well, Flash 8 still works, but I prefer Flash CS 5.5.
I'v heard that it crashes for alot of people, but it has never done that to me, and I'v used it alot :)

[PuffballsUnited]

CS5.5 crashes for me CONSTANTLY. It can get kind of frustrating because if you haven't saved (Usually when it crashes) you have to start over on what you were doing and that kills all motivation. I've used Flash 8 for everything I've submitted up until now and I really enjoy it.

[Carr77]

At 4/6/12 09:59 AM, Carr77 wrote: Well, Flash 8 still works, but I prefer Flash CS 5.5.
I'v heard that it crashes for alot of people, but it has never done that to me, and I'v used it alot :)

I just want to add that cs 5.5 autosaves all the time, so it dooesn't matter if it crashes :)

[PsYcOsAiYaN]

At 4/6/12 03:01 PM, PuffballsUnited wrote: CS5.5 crashes for me CONSTANTLY. It can get kind of frustrating because if you haven't saved (Usually when it crashes) you have to start over on what you were doing and that kills all motivation. I've used Flash 8 for everything I've submitted up until now and I really enjoy it.

I completely agree I've been working on my very first animation in it and I cannot count the number of times that pos program has crashed on me or given me the "insufficient virtual memory to continue" error also I'm not sure if its the program or not but I recently hit the 95sec mark and my file is almost 100mb! that's kind of absurd in my book -.-