0 Replies Latest reply: Jul 17, 2014 6:04 AM by ctf0 RSS

    Reflow & Animate (workflow idea)

    ctf0 Community Member

      i was thinking of an idea to make things easier and faster when working between those two great tools ,more like (After Effects & C4D workflow) or (Photoshop & illustrator smart layers)

       

      -currently if you're working on a project in reflow and you want to add animation you'll have to open edge animate, setup stage, reimport the assets, re-write the text (incase your animation is about text) and do all that stuff all over again ,but what if

      you do your project normally in reflow and you right-click the "part/container" you want to have animation at and chose "edit in edge animate", now edge animate open with everything like (font size, width/hight, responsive, etc..) same as you already have in reflow and you just animate ,then "cmnd+s" to save that animation ,now edge animate will close and you're back to reflow.

       

      .the good about this is no more something like this (How to add an Edge Animate Project to Edge Reflow Output - YouTube)

      .your work-flow is more robust as you're basically focusing on your project rather than finding the code ,what to copy and what to not ,what was the size of that element ,etc...

      .later if you want to edit the project ,you 'll only have one file which is the reflow project file ,nothing else .

       

      also to keep reflow as light as possible ,the animation wouldn't need to be played in it ,this is good incase you have an autoplay animation which with a big project this will simply freeze the whole thing ,instead you will have some sort of a snapshot of that animated layer + a small icon on the layer (to indicate that this is an edge animate layer)