I have been using Flash CC for a couple of weeks on a few products and I must say, it's pretty disappointing. Not only is the stability extremely bad (forcing you to find links to hotfixes on Adobe boards), and that still doesn't clear up completely random crashes and freezes, but also loads of core functionality has been removed, terminally breaking the workflow of animators and those that used a lot of custom components. I think to be fair to us people that have been using Flash Professional since before Adobe, they should just remove the "Pro" and call it "Flash Elements CC" rather.
Things like currently having no supported native workflow to export vectors out of Flash into other Adobe products (since FXG was dropped) is just unbelievable! This is really going several steps backwards in terms of features - I cannot see how this is a better product that CS6 if it's missing such important features, here is a list of features no longer available in Flash CC, (you don't hear about these in the press release):
What's the use of a suite of apps when you can't move art between them, especially if it was possible before - you feel like you are going insane when your software keeps on getting worse with less features! What's the use of improving video export features but removing animation features... I just don't know who Adobe is targeting with Flash any more, they seem to change their mind every couple of months. Things like PSD-import, Movie Explorer, Bandwidth Profiler, FXG Export, Bone Tool, Kuler and Device Central were all tools I used and enjoyed - and also the reason I find myself working in CS6 more - oh transparent animated GIF export is not currently working on Flash CC either. I mean c'mon! I can understand if you are dropping features to not support some competitors product, but what, are we going to have to wait another 3-4 years again before we can move graphics between Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator like we could do, like, um, 3-4 years BEFORE!!? Soon Adobe will convince us that we will now be coding in assembly and using a custom Adobe-XML-like language to draw our images (which of course, they will scrap in the next version of their software). The fact that the Google SWF to HTML5 converter is still better than Adobe's own offering is also worrying.
After a nightmare of a time finding out the Photoshop's batch processes actually need human supervision when doing anything rudimentary with over 1000 images on PC I now know that even Photoshop's days are counted as a semi-stable product in the Adobe roster. I'm starting to think in some cases maybe they are just admitting defeat by removing features they no longer have the know-how to maintain/evolve?
Things like currently having no supported native workflow to export vectors out of Flash into other Adobe products (since FXG was dropped) is just unbelievable! This is really going several steps backwards in terms of features - I cannot see how this is a better product that CS6 if it's missing such important features, here is a list of features no longer available in Flash CC, (you don't hear about these in the press release):
- Object-level Undo
- Project Panel
- ActionScript 1&2
- TLF text
- Motion Editor
- Deco tools
- Bone tool (IK)
- Project panel
- Printing
- Strings panel
- Behaviors panel
- Movie Explorer
- Bandwidth Profiler
- FXG format
- Actions Toolbox
- Kuler panel
- Share my Screen
- Code Hinting (JSFL)
- Video Cue Points
- Close Captioning
- Device Central
- Customizable Tool Panel
- Importing BMP, TIFF, AutoCad, AIFF, Sound Designer, Around AU and Adobe Sounds Document formats
- File Info (XMP Metadata)
- Fireworks PNG Import
What's the use of a suite of apps when you can't move art between them, especially if it was possible before - you feel like you are going insane when your software keeps on getting worse with less features! What's the use of improving video export features but removing animation features... I just don't know who Adobe is targeting with Flash any more, they seem to change their mind every couple of months. Things like PSD-import, Movie Explorer, Bandwidth Profiler, FXG Export, Bone Tool, Kuler and Device Central were all tools I used and enjoyed - and also the reason I find myself working in CS6 more - oh transparent animated GIF export is not currently working on Flash CC either. I mean c'mon! I can understand if you are dropping features to not support some competitors product, but what, are we going to have to wait another 3-4 years again before we can move graphics between Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator like we could do, like, um, 3-4 years BEFORE!!? Soon Adobe will convince us that we will now be coding in assembly and using a custom Adobe-XML-like language to draw our images (which of course, they will scrap in the next version of their software). The fact that the Google SWF to HTML5 converter is still better than Adobe's own offering is also worrying.
After a nightmare of a time finding out the Photoshop's batch processes actually need human supervision when doing anything rudimentary with over 1000 images on PC I now know that even Photoshop's days are counted as a semi-stable product in the Adobe roster. I'm starting to think in some cases maybe they are just admitting defeat by removing features they no longer have the know-how to maintain/evolve?
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