Where did Flash and Adobe Edge Go
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- You'll need a copy of Adobe Animate CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.
- No previous Adobe Animate or digital advertising knowledge is necessary.
- If you're not sure if this course is right for you. Email me what you’re trying to do and check if you’re on the right track.
- 53 lectures 3 hours of content!
- Forum support from me.
- How to build banner advertising
- How to keep file sizes down.
- Firm understanding of the publishing process for ad networks like Google Doubleclick, Adwords, Simek etc.
- Professional workflows and shortcuts.
- A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.
- YES: This course is for beginners. For people who prefer not to work in code. Visual people. Creative people. Graphic designers. Marketers. Past users of Flash.
- NO: This course is not for developers. This course will cover standard animated banners. Not dynamic banners like expanding banners, video banners or game banners.
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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So they created this new product called Adobe Edge Animate. Okay. Edge is the key. They made this cool little product and I've been teaching it for a good long while now. And, uh, just before I started this video course, just before, okay, maybe about four or five months ago, that's what I was gonna do. This exact same course about Edge Animate.
It was great. Brilliant. I love it. But Adobe are now discontinuing it, so they're not gonna support it anymore. It's still around. Okay.
But you can't, they're not gonna make a new version. So I've had to scrap that one even though I really liked it. Okay. And we have to move to this new one, this new thing called Adobe Animate, not Edge Animate. He's still over there. Okay.
He's not longer gonna be supported. So Adobe Animate, what is he? Okay, all he is is Adobe Flash that was sitting over there. They've renamed it. Why? Um, two reasons.
One is they've changed all the technology inside of it. Okay? Um, it operates the same. So you still use the timeline animation and you still use all your skills from Flash and it looks the same. And it works essentially the same, but it outputs HTML five now. But everybody out there in internet land couldn't get their head around.
Flash is making HTML five. Everyone I'd go to and they'd say, ah, you should use Flash for your banner aids. They're like, oh, I can't use Flash. Like, you can 'cause it output outputs H TML five. And they're like, no, no, no. Can't use Flash.
Doesn't work on mobile. I'm like, yeah, but the Flash program is changed now. It does HTML five, so it can like, yeah, don't use Flash. Doesn't work on mobile. And you're like, okay. So I can see what Adobe have done.
But what they've done is they've created a name that kind of mixes 'em all up. So Adobe Flash, Adobe Anate has become Adobe Animate. I Made Any Clearer. And Adobe Animate is just a renaming of the old Flash stuff. So you'll find lots of stuff online that'll say things like, uh, the help files are just being, they just went switch the name. Okay.
So now they say Adobe Animate. So there's some really old, um, flash, okay. Uh, help files that are just being rebranded. Um, Adobe Animate, and they're making everything a little confusing online. So have I made it any less confusing? Maybe not.
Okay. But, um, we're learning Adobe Animate. That's all you need to know.