You're reading from Mastering Adobe Animate 2021 Explore professional techniques and best practices to design vivid animations and interactive content

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074162

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed

2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations

4. Chapter 3: Settling into the User Interface

5. Chapter 4: Publishing and Exporting Creative Content

6. Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Manipulating Media Content

8. Chapter 6: Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web

9. Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting

10. Chapter 8: Animating Poses with IK Armatures

11. Chapter 9: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth

12. Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms

13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games

14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL

15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Options for Exporting your Content

While publishing is completely dependent upon the Animate document type that's been chosen for a project, exporting is completely free from such restraints and can be undertaken regardless of document type and publish platform. For instance, whether you're using ActionScript 3.0 or HTML5 Canvas documents, you can always export to an image sequence, animated GIF file, or HD video file through Adobe Media Encoder.

Let's have a look at some of these export options and see how they differ from the more restricted publish workflows.

Exporting Video Files

If your project is non-interactive, a video file is often the best format for producing it in a distributable format. Video, of course, is an incredibly popular format for sharing creative content and can be generated from any document type, making it quite versatile as well.

From the application menu, choose File | Export | Export Video/Media… and the Export Media dialog...