3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 26, 2011 3:32 AM by cooleon RSS

    Compatability between CS4 and CS5 Flash?

    cooleon Community Member

      Hi

       

      I'm working off  CS4 and using mainly Premiere Pro. I'm also using Photoshop, Flash,  Soundbooth from CS4 and using files from those applications in Premiere  Pro. All good so far. My projects have a few layers but really nothing  too complicated.

       

      I work with someone who will eventually  create the flash elements of our projects. To do this the company  ordered further licenses for CS4 but we received CS5 instead.

       

      If she loads CS5 onto her computer and creates Flash files (CS5) that I then use in Premiere Pro CS4, will it be compatible?

       

      Also, if I want to then adjust that CS5 flash file in Flash CS4, will that work, or will I encounter problems?

       

      Should we go with the CS5 or try and get another copy of CS4 for the new computer? (My computer needs to stay CS4)

       

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: Compatability between CS4 and CS5 Flash?
          markerline Community Member

          I don't know about cross-application compatibility since I've never imported a Flash file into Premiere (Perhaps you can describe this process and the results).

           

          But as far as Flash CS5 is concerned there is an option to save as one version prior, meaning an option to save as Flash CS4.  However Flash CS5 introduces TLF Text Framework which is new and will be converted to Classic Text in CS4 if you save as CS4, so opening back in CS5 will not restore the TLF options that you may have set initially.

          • 2. Re: Compatability between CS4 and CS5 Flash?
            cooleon Community Member

            Thanks. I'm new to Flash so I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by TLF Text Framework or classic text. Does that affect the formatting of text I include as part of my flash file?

             

            As for how I use Flash in PPro. At the moment we're trying to create a wavey-line animation to suggest a direction of flow of blood (it's a medical based project). We then layer this animation in PPro over a still photo of a part of the anatomy of a person, and then maybe some titles over that. Nothing too complicated. We have 200 different parts of the anatomy to cover, so while the basic principle of the wavey-line animation needs to remain the same, we will have to adjust its direction, size etc to match each anatomy.

             

            Thus my colleague will probably create the animation in Flash, pass the file to me to use in PPro, and then I may have to take it back into Flash to make final adjustments to match the still of anatomy for that particular video.

            • 3. Re: Compatability between CS4 and CS5 Flash?
              markerline Community Member

              So as far as Premiere is concerned you are importing Quicktime MOV files from Flash?

               

              When you import MOV files into Flash they are frame-by-frame animations taking up frames on the timeline, either on the main stage or in a Movie Clip.  There is a limit in Flash in general to the number of frames you can have in a single animation, something like 16000 or 12000 frames.  Depending on your fps this could be a relatively short or longer amount of time that the animation will play.  I don't think there will be as many issues importing and exporting between Premiere Pro and Flash as there are with Flash CS4 and CS5 itself.  TLF is a framework for laying out text (Text Layout Framework) which allows you some functionality of InDesign-style text-box layouts such as multi-columns, tracking and kerning, etc.