Flash MX 2004 and quicktime

[gramamac80]

I am running Windows 7 and just finally installed my Flash MX 2004 which operates on Windows XP and Windows 2000 and apparently requires Quick Time.

I'm hoping I can salvage it somehow and use the Digital-Tutors Training Kit included.

Or, is it just to obsolete for me to even try to do anything with now?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

yeah at this point anything Flash is as good as dead. It has been removed from every browser now and any of the most recent versions were time bombed to disable at a date we're already past.

[eddman]

You can try it on windows XP in a VM.

[sagum]

On 01/10/2022 at 23:28, gramamac80 said:

I am running Windows 7 and just finally installed my Flash MX 2004 which operates on Windows XP and Windows 2000 and apparently requires Quick Time.

I'm hoping I can salvage it somehow and use the Digital-Tutors Training Kit included.

Or, is it just to obsolete for me to even try to do anything with now?

From a technical view, apart from Action Script, there is very little in the way of translatable skills to other software going forward. 

It's largely going to depends on if you're into retro software. There is still quite a large collection of retro machine enthusiasts that still run the older Flash stuff, but it's almost exclusively Flash games from what I can see. You could use the Action Script skills to go back and make HyperCard decks, kinda... but honestly, there are so many projects trying to bring older hardware and systems online for use on the modern web, unless you're somehow making a Flash based web email client that'll work with the likes of Google's Gmail via the imap protocol for example, there won't be much use right now.

I still have a copy of Flash MX installed on my Macintosh, running OS9.2. Haven't used it in a long time, but as Brandon said, it's dead as dead is as far as using it in the modern world. 
 

[+pmrd Subscriber²]

On 03/10/2022 at 10:38, sagum said:

From a technical view, apart from Action Script, there is very little in the way of translatable skills to other software going forward. 

What are you talking about? Have you ever heard of Adobe Animate? It's litterally a rebranded version of Flash for Animation.

Edited October 3, 2022 by PmRd

[sagum]

On 03/10/2022 at 17:56, PmRd said:

What are you talking about? Have you ever heard of Adobe Animate? It's litterally a rebranded version of Flash for Animation.

Sure have, and I've also heard of Adobe's other abandoned project, Live Motion before they picked up Macromedia. 

The issue is Adobe's Animate is not Flash MX. Flash MX is a very different beast from the creative cloud versions of Flash that Animate replaces, and they serve two different purposes for their time. 
Flash MX 2004 is from 2004. The interface is completely different, and a lot of the workflow has changed to the point the skills gained would not transfer. 

It'd be the same as saying you can create animated videos in Photoshop because you can tween objects across frames, but you'd just learn photoshop proper in the first instance.

Please feel free to install Flash MX in a VM and have had it, then jump into Animate and feel your skills glide across.
 

[+pmrd Subscriber²]

On 03/10/2022 at 14:04, sagum said:

Sure have, and I've also heard of Adobe's other abandoned project, Live Motion before they picked up Macromedia. 

The issue is Adobe's Animate is not Flash MX. Flash MX is a very different beast from the creative cloud versions of Flash that Animate replaces, and they serve two different purposes for their time. 
Flash MX 2004 is from 2004. The interface is completely different, and a lot of the workflow has changed to the point the skills gained would not transfer. 

It'd be the same as saying you can create animated videos in Photoshop because you can tween objects across frames, but you'd just learn photoshop proper in the first instance.

Please feel free to install Flash MX in a VM and have had it, then jump into Animate and feel your skills glide across.
 

Sorry but you're just wrong. Are you saying that everyone who went from Flash MX 2004 to Adobe Flash had to relearn everything? I used both. There are still a lot of similaries between both versions. If you learn how to use Flash MX a lot of want your learned will transfer to Adobe Animate.

[gramamac80]

Wow! Lots to think about and try! Thanks all for your inputs!

 

[freedonX]

For a moment there I thought someone necro'ed an old post.. 

 

Flash Mx and Quicktime... Ah yes the age where Broadband was still a luxury. Not that either things are related. Just brought memories. Oh and also when I could stay at 4am and with only 3 hours of sleep I was good as new... 

[gramamac80]

Received an email telling me to "Mark as Solution" on the post with the best answer. I don't find that option, so I just clicked on the thumbs up image for the ones I liked. Not sure the exact answer was forthcoming, however, I really just wanted to play around with that tutorial that needed Quicktime to run, and wondered if it was possible. It looks like it's NOT, but I have a lot more to play with, though, so I'll give up on that. Thanks.