Is the new Camera Tool ready for Canvas export or is there any limitation?

[sovie4711]

Is the new Camera Tool ready for Canvas export or is there any limitation?

[UDESCO · Accepted solution]

Yes, the new Camera tool is available for all the built-in doc-types in Animate - HTML5 Canvas, WebGL and Actionscript.

[juan edgars61656490]

The camera tool is available for HTML5 Canvas, It's works fine when you publish the HTML file. BUT if you want to export as video, doesn´t work.

[Colin Holgate]

It's not so much that it's the camera tool that prevents HTML5 Canvas from exporting as video, the export as video requires ActionScript 3.0 FLAs, whether you're going to use the camera tool or not.

[juan edgars61656490]

You can export a HTML5 Canvas as video. I do it all the time.
The point is the camera tool doesn't work in that video. Neither does the JS code.

[Colin Holgate]

Happy to be corrected about that! I may have confused myself with importing video, which is AS3 only.

There are so many filters and other tools that are not available in HTML5 Canvas, that using AS3 is better anyway. You may have code driven changes you want recorded, in which you would need to convert that code to AS3. For straight animation I can't think of an advantage of using HTML5 Canvas for creating video.

Oh, I just tried exporting an HTML5 Canvas FLA that has a tween on the camera tool. The tween exported correctly. Is it possible they fixed that in the update from a couple of days ago?

[juan edgars61656490]

Really?
I tried last week and doesn't work. I put the camera on the Scene1 (root) y made some moves and zoom. When i exported as video, no camera's moves or zoom are showed on the video.

[Colin Holgate]

I see one of the improvements was:

"Support for Global JavaScript and third-party JavaScript libraries

Get the flexibility you need to use JavaScript code that applies to all frames in an animation. Also, now you can use the latest JavaScript libraries for animation from within the Animate UI."

Perhaps that solved the video export issue too?

[sovie4711]

Yes, exporting to Video (from within Canvas mode) works with the new Update.

[sovie4711]

.. with the camera movement/tween in it.