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		<title>Can I use Flash CS3 to open Flash CS4 files?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NO. It&#8217;s a question that people have been asking me for a few weeks now. I don&#8217;t see how this is not normal. I mean you couldn&#8217;t open Flash MX 2004 files with Flash MX either&#8230; It was normal back then, and it hasn&#8217;t changed now. You can however save Flash CS4 files as Flash [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center; font-size:120px;padding-top:120px;padding-bottom:120px;">NO.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 10px;">It&#8217;s a question that people have been asking me for a few weeks now.<br />
I don&#8217;t see how this is not normal. I mean you couldn&#8217;t open Flash MX 2004 files with Flash MX either&#8230; It was normal back then, and it hasn&#8217;t changed now.
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<p style="font-size: 10px;">You can however save Flash CS4 files as Flash CS3 files (you lose everything in the file which is CS4-only) and then open it in Flash CS3.</p>
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		<title>Flash CS4 doesn&#8217;t like your FLA files!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been an early adopter of Adobe&#8217;s new Creative Suite which has been announced in October. At first glance everything seemed okay, and I really really REALLY enjoyed working with the new Flash IDE. The thing I liked the most were the panels which aren&#8217;t animated anymore. The panels still disappear when you click outside [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-239" title="2903317487_f058007883" src="http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2903317487_f058007883-226x300.jpg" alt="" width="226" height="300" />I&#8217;ve been an early adopter of Adobe&#8217;s new Creative Suite which has been announced in October. At first glance everything seemed okay, and I really really REALLY enjoyed working with the new Flash IDE. The thing I liked the most were the panels which aren&#8217;t animated anymore. The panels still disappear when you click outside the IDE, but they disappear instantly. No laggy fading away.</p>
<p>Another cool thing is the workspace switcher. I never switched workspaces before CS4 because of the overhead: You had to go to &#8216;Window&#8217; then go back down to &#8216;Workspaces&#8217;, and then you got to choose you workspace&#8230; If you already specified any&#8230;<br />
Flash CS4 comes with a few standard workspaces and a very handy button, located in the main screen of Flash. Changing workspaces is really only one click away!</p>
<p>Next thing that drew my attention was the 3D capabilities which are now built-in. I have always been intrested in 3D, but I never really got to play with it. So I hoped Flash would allow me some playing around with it.<br />
I must say: The built-in feature is pretty cool. You can actually draw 2D objects and then move them around in a 3D space. The bad thing? The 2D object will stay a 2D object. You can&#8217;t change the &#8216;depth&#8217; of an object. You can only alter the width and the height of the object. That&#8217;s a turndown for me. Nonetheless: it&#8217;s cool! <img src='http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>But&#8230;<span id="more-238"></span>I&#8217;ve been working with Flash CS4 for a while now, and I <em>did</em> have a very annoying problem.<br />
I was working on a typography assignment for school, when Flash crashed. Happily I save all of my progress so nothing was really lost. However when I started Flash again, and opened my FLA in progress, Flash wouldn&#8217;t be very responsive anymore. Opening a MovieClip turned out to take almost 20 seconds (including spinning beachballs). Clicking on a frame and previewing the timeline seemed to be even more of a problem.</p>
<p>First thing to do, was to close Flash CS4 and open up Flash CS3, and check out that same FLA file. No problems. Everything went just fine. So I closed CS3, opened up CS4 again, thinking it would be a one-time issue with CS4. But I was wrong. CS4 was dead slow again&#8230;<br />
I closed my FLA, and created a new one&#8230; And all of a sudden everything went fine again&#8230; Like what the f#ck? (And no: when I opened my FLA after that again, it sucked again. Same goes for other FLA files.)</p>
<p>What the heck is going on? I am working in Flash CS3 again for now, but I&#8217;ld love to work with CS4 again.</p>
<p>I mean: the panels still disappearing when you click outside of Flash is annoying, but it doesn&#8217;t hold you back from building cool stuff. And even though the 3D features in Flash are very basic: It doesn&#8217;t keep me from doing my work. But Flash not being able to work fluently with saved FLA files, is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">serious</span> issue!</p>
<p>Anyone having similar issues, or knows a way of fixing this? Or is this a very annoying bug, that Adobe needs to take care of, before we (or at least I) can go on working with Flash CS4?</p>
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		<title>Adobe Usergroup meeting en CS4 impressies revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zoals vele anderen, ben ik gisteren naar de Adobe usergroup meeting in Gent geweest. Het was een speciale avond, want gisteren werden voor het eerste echte CS4 versies vertoont. Deze keer was het op een nieuwe locatie. Het zag er echt leuk uit. Leuke inkomhal, mooie trap (ja, hoor: It matters), goed verlicht. Alleen de [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-154" title="8827" src="http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/8827.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="100" />Zoals vele anderen, ben ik gisteren naar de <a href="http://adobeusergroup.be" target="_blank" target="_blank">Adobe usergroup</a> meeting in Gent geweest. Het was een speciale avond, want gisteren werden voor het eerste echte CS4 versies vertoont.</p>
<p>Deze keer was het op een nieuwe locatie. Het zag er echt leuk uit. Leuke inkomhal, mooie trap (ja, hoor: It matters), goed verlicht. Alleen de presentatie zaal leek me op het eerste gezicht een grap te zijn. Het was een lange zaal, maar niet erg breed (wat een beetje vreemd leek op het eerste gezicht).</p>
<p>Men was erg to the point, en dat vanaf het begin: De Adobe sprekers begonnen bijna meteen met CS4 demo&#8217;s allerhande te tonen. Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, Dreamweaver en Flash (dat zijn de enige die ik me nog kan herinneren).</p>
<p>Zelf ben ik best wel goed te spreken over de nieuwe features van Flash CS4 (basic 3D, advanced tween tool, live video previews) en Dreamweaver CS4 (SVN, Javascript auto completion, Javascript interpreter in de IDE) en CS4 in het algemeen (application frames). De voorstelling zelf vond ik wat minder geslaagd.<br />
Men had voor het eerst gekozen om alle demo&#8217;s met de producten rond een filmproject te maken. Dat hield in dat men Flash Lite sites voor die site demonstreerde, trailers maakte, en websites bouwde allemaal rond die (onbestaande) film. Ik vond de uiteenlopende demo&#8217;s die telkens op zich &#8216;een project apart&#8217; waren net iets fleuriger (neem dit maar letterlijk op. De film in kwestie leek namelijk op een typische &#8217;90 detective film, in duistere wijken van New York. Veel kleur was er niet te bespeuren.)</p>
<p>Daarna was het tijd voor een glas champagne (waarvoor dank, <a href="http://www.boulevart.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Boulevart</a>) en een kingsize CS4-cake (die prachtige chocolade vlekken op de grond maakte). Een goed moment dus om even een babbel te slaan met de eerste beste ongekende, gekende en bekende.</p>
<p>Toen we weer in de (smalle) presentatieruimte zaten was het tijd voor <a href="http://aralbalkan.com" target="_blank" target="_blank">Aral Balkan</a>. Het is niet de eerste keer dat ik Aral on-stage zie, dus ik weet wel dat ik een humor geladen inspirerende sessie kan verwachten. En ook deze keer ontgoochelde hij niemand. Beter zelfs: deze sessie was echt een presentatie om U tegen te zeggen. Het was in feite al jammer dat niemand dit op video heeft vastgelegd, want het was echt plezier om naar hem te luisteren.</p>
<p>Achteraf was het tijd voor wat eten. Gezien ik honger had, mocht dat ook wel. En het wachten was het waard: Het was echt VERDOMD lekker. Ik ben altijd onder de indruk als eten (dat voor zo&#8217;n massa mensen tegelijk wordt klaargemaakt) niet naar plastiek of karton smaakt. Het was echt restaurant kwaliteit (waar menig restaurant een voorbeeld kan aan nemen).</p>
<p>De usergroup managers hebben deze keer toch echt wel indruk op me gemaakt. Strak werk jongens want <em>dit smaakt naar meer</em> <img src='http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  .</p>
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