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Flash Player: 2020

Adobe has announced that they plan, in cooperation with browser vendors, to end-of-life Flash Player in 2020. It is important to note a few things here… this is only in regard to Flash Player not AIR! The AIR team have some very cool stuff on the roadmap and AIR will continue on, regardless. Additionally, we …

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Adobe MAX 2016 Resources

With Adobe MAX 2016 concluded, I’ve pulled together a number of resources from my own sessions on Animate CC and the SWF file format and also some important information from Adobe around Flash Player and AIR. I had a great time at MAX this year and it seems most everyone else did too. Great to …

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Convert Flash Ads to HTML5

Adobe has published a video I authored for them describing the process of converting ads targeting Flash Player to HTML5 Canvas using Flash Professional CC. See how you can convert your existing Flash Ads to Canvas and optimize them for use on any modern browser. Watch Video (3 minutes)

Making the Case for Flash as a Creative Platform: Part II

This is the second part of a two-part series regarding correspondence with Adobe around Flash Professional over the past few years. I encourage you to read the first part as well. The following comes about based upon some emails previous to the “Create Now 2014 World Tour” Adobe launched that year, which I did participate in as a …

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Making the Case for Flash as a Creative Platform: Part I

Over the past few years, I’ve argued – passionately discussed – with Adobe as to why they should be paying much more attention to Flash Professional (soon to be Animate CC) as a creative tool.  I spoke with many people about the value of Flash Professional and the wider Flash Platform… across many segments of the company… and …

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Adobe Animate CC: The Evolution of Flash Professional

Adobe has announced the release of all new versions of the major desktop applications available through Creative Cloud. There are a couple of applications which have not had updates made available during this milestone release… primary among those is Flash Professional CC. Flash Professional CC is now Animate CC Flash Professional has had a strong …

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Flash Professional CC: Multiplatform Creativity Engine

Last Friday, I gave a talk for the Hawaii Flash Adobe User Group entitled “Flash Professional CC: Multiplatform Creativity Engine”. Description, slides, and recording link follow… With Flash Professional CC 2014, it is possible publish animations to a wide number of targets – including Flash Player, AIR, iOS, Android, HTML5, WebGL, and even custom platforms …

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Flash Player and AIR 15: Platform and Tooling Updates

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk for HFUG about the Flash Player and AIR 15 runtimes and Flash Professional CC 2014.1. Not sure how this got away from me but I haven’t posted the slides and recording yet… so here they are! [View Session Recording]

Something AMAZING was announced today…

In today’s scheduled release, we’ve updated both Flash Player and AIR with new and improved functionality, important bug fixes and security updates. Relaxing Stage3D Render Target Clear Improved support for browser zoom levels – Windows 8 Flash Player Fullscreen Orientation Change – Windows Hardware video decoding on Chrome (PPAPI) for Windows Automatic software fall back …

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