Best Flash Program for Animating

[FunkyPope]

In your opinion, what is the best Flash version for animating - taking line quality, color quality, price, and overall accessibility into account.
The differences, if any, of chosen program of PC and Mac?

Just a nice little discussion on programs to hopefully help aid up and coming content creators looking for a medium and junk

[FunkyPope]

I've heard some pretty good things about cs3, that the line quality is better than a few that came after it and that it's the best you'll get for it's price, but I haven't used it. I may purchase it though because low on money and due to complications I need a new program

[kkots]

At 12/3/13 04:50 AM, FunkyPope wrote: Just a nice little discussion on programs to hopefully help aid up and coming content creators looking for a medium and junk

I don't understand what do you mean by that. What's the purpose of this question, can you explain? What do you mean by a medium? What is junk?
You can buy only the latest Flash version from Adobe, and only as a part of Creative Suite 6. You can't buy from Adobe any of the earlier versions of Flash.

And how is it possible to compare line and color qualities of different Flash versions?

[Sam]

At 12/3/13 09:11 AM, kkots wrote: What do you mean by a medium?

"the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance."

I assume he means medium in this sense of the word. :)

You can buy only the latest Flash version from Adobe, and only as a part of Creative Suite 6. You can't buy from Adobe any of the earlier versions of Flash.

After a quick eBay search, I managed to find some Macromedia Studio 8 discs which include Flash 8. I'm sure if you look around hard enough you'll find more recent copies much more easily.

At 12/3/13 04:50 AM, FunkyPope wrote: In your opinion, what is the best Flash version for animating - taking line quality, color quality, price, and overall accessibility into account.
The differences, if any, of chosen program of PC and Mac?

I always liked Flash 8 if you're just in it for animating. It seemed like less of a resource hog than Adobe's versions. It includes most of the tools you'll need, and only excludes a few features for animators. I haven't really kept on top of what Adobe's doing with Flash since I moved to FlashDevelop for programming, but I think they have some sort of pay-monthly system for their entire Creative Suite.

Aside from that, I used Adobe CS4 on a Mac a few times, and whenever I'd switch spaces, it would bring along random panels like the library and I'd have to move around a few spaces before it corrected itself. Other than that, no differences that I know of.

Just a nice little discussion on programs to hopefully help aid up and coming content creators looking for a medium and junk

Possibly better suited in the Animation forum (I never know these days), but we'll see :)

[FunkyPope]

At 12/3/13 09:11 AM, kkots wrote:

At 12/3/13 04:50 AM, FunkyPope wrote: Just a nice little discussion on programs to hopefully help aid up and coming content creators looking for a medium and junk

I don't understand what do you mean by that. What's the purpose of this question, can you explain? What do you mean by a medium? What is junk?

Haha, sorry. It was less of a series question, so the way I didn't word it in the best way possible.
Sam, the person who responded immediately after you, did a great job explaining my question so I'll leave it there

[FunkyPope]

At 12/3/13 09:31 AM, Sam wrote:

At 12/3/13 09:11 AM, kkots wrote: What do you mean by a medium?

"the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance."

I assume he means medium in this sense of the word. :)

You can buy only the latest Flash version from Adobe, and only as a part of Creative Suite 6. You can't buy from Adobe any of the earlier versions of Flash.

After a quick eBay search, I managed to find some Macromedia Studio 8 discs which include Flash 8. I'm sure if you look around hard enough you'll find more recent copies much more easily.

At 12/3/13 04:50 AM, FunkyPope wrote: In your opinion, what is the best Flash version for animating - taking line quality, color quality, price, and overall accessibility into account.
The differences, if any, of chosen program of PC and Mac?

I always liked Flash 8 if you're just in it for animating. It seemed like less of a resource hog than Adobe's versions. It includes most of the tools you'll need, and only excludes a few features for animators. I haven't really kept on top of what Adobe's doing with Flash since I moved to FlashDevelop for programming, but I think they have some sort of pay-monthly system for their entire Creative Suite.

Aside from that, I used Adobe CS4 on a Mac a few times, and whenever I'd switch spaces, it would bring along random panels like the library and I'd have to move around a few spaces before it corrected itself. Other than that, no differences that I know of.

Thanks so much! I'm typing this response out pretty quick so I'm not going to have time to respond to each point in length, but thank you. First off for explaining my question haha
Also, I'll look into flash 8 - never used it.
I've spent some time on flash cs5 and flash pro, and have only recently moved to a mac, which is why I'm interested in outside opinion before doing my own research!
If I make a decision any time soon I'll return to the forum and let you know what I find out/like, thanks again!

Possibly better suited in the Animation forum (I never know these days), but we'll see :)

True, but I've mostly only seen people posting links to their animations and asking for opinions lately, so oft times its more like the under judgement section than anything..
There are some good threads regardless though so I'll give 'em a try

[Innermike]

Sam covered most of the points pretty well, and yeah the Animation forum would probably be more helpful, but I just thought I'd suggest you check out the range of toonboom software https://www.toonboom.com/ I've used it briefly in the past and the approach to animation there is different, you may prefer it who knows \_(ツ)_/

[FunkyPope]

At 12/3/13 01:08 PM, Innermike wrote: Sam covered most of the points pretty well, and yeah the Animation forum would probably be more helpful, but I just thought I'd suggest you check out the range of toonboom software https://www.toonboom.com/ I've used it briefly in the past and the approach to animation there is different, you may prefer it who knows \_(ツ)_/

I actually started out with toonboom! It's a nice program in certain ways, but I did have my problems with it. I'd suggest it to people, but not all - because it is a bit different in some ways... some things better, some things worse. Personal preference I suppose!