New Flash Extension: FrameSync
This is a handy-dandy animation plug-in similar to Animonger’s AnimSlider, except that it uses frame labels and requires no other setup.
Update: The video tutorial is now live. See the extension in action!
I picked up this style of lip syncing in Flash from Chris Georgenes’ tutorial.
Update (8/26/09): A savvy user caught a stage refresh bug introduced in Flash CS4 with AS3. If you’re using Flash CS4 & AS3 and the symbol isn’t updating when you select a new frame from the panel, download the most recent version below (1.0.3 has the fix).
Update (8/16/10): Version 2.0 now has some great new features, including a “keyframe” mode, audio playback and frame navigation for Flash CS5, and performance improvements. See this post for more details on the updates.
Update (10/5/10): Check out SmartMouth, the new extension that automatically lip syncs.
Update (11/19/10): See Chris Georgenes demo FrameSync in his MAX 2010 Animation session.
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(compatible with Flash MX 2004 & up)
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Pingback by localToGlobal » Blog Archive » news review -> 37th week of 2008 — September 12, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Looks awesome! Can’t wait to have a project to try this one on!
Comment by Chris — October 1, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
Great plugin, this will save me hours!
I noticed a small bug… if the selected symbol has layers in layer folders, it won’t work. An error appears saying “TypeError: iFrame has no properties”. Not a big deal, still an awesome plugin.
Comment by Keegan — April 8, 2009 @ 12:33 am
Keegan,
Nice catch! I’ve posted an update (1.0.2) that will allow you to have folders inside the symbol.
Thanks!
Comment by Justin — April 8, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
Thanks for this great plugin, I really appreaciate the efforts you are putting on those plugins, and most important, you share them freely to anybody, if you could add thumbnails of the nested symbols to your framesync, it would be perfect, thank you anyway.
Comment by Edson — February 1, 2010 @ 6:28 pm
Thanks for your comment, Edson. I’d love to add thumbnails. At this point, there’s not an efficient way to implement that feature, so I opted to keep things simple, but I’ll keep it in mind for future updates.
Comment by Justin — February 8, 2010 @ 4:20 am
Great plugin, the thing that really would make it almost perfect is a thumbnail preview, as said before. Thats what I was always missing in Flash.
Comment by John — March 31, 2010 @ 10:25 am
Thanks for the comment, John. I’ll keep it in mind for the future.
Comment by Justin — March 31, 2010 @ 4:23 pm
Awesome plugin! Is there anyway the frames could still appear on the panel when you haven’t labelled them? They would appear as their frame number as opposed to their label name. Would help loads. Thanks!
Comment by J — June 26, 2010 @ 7:50 am
Good suggestion, J. A few people have asked for this feature. I will include it in the next release. Here’s a video preview.
Comment by Justin — June 28, 2010 @ 2:08 am
J, These features have been added to the latest version (2.0.0), which is now available. See this post for more details.
Comment by Justin — August 16, 2010 @ 4:31 pm
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Pingback by Adobe Education Leaders » Blog Archive » Workshop: Animation How-To’s, Tips & Tricks with Chris Georgenes — October 25, 2010 @ 10:21 pm
[...] Tuesday afternoon I was busy preparing for my session and gave a live interview over the phone for WOW. My full session was sold out and went well. I demonstrated my use of Flash and animation by showcasing that “2.5D” head turn technique, nesting and Justin Putney’s FrameSync plugin. [...]
Pingback by Keyframer » Blog Archive » Speaking at Adobe MAX 2010 — November 1, 2010 @ 10:30 pm
Hi AjarPorductions,
Just like to say thanks for the extensions, really appreciate your efforts. After installing FrameSync, when I now open Flash CS5 (Mac) I get javascript errors;
At line 195 of file “/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Martin/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS5/en_US/Configuration/WindowSWF/FrameSyncActions.jsfl”:
TypeError: dom has no properties
the same at line 20
FrameSync still works perfectly as does Flash, just wondering why what and how and maybe the more feedback you get the better the product ( I know… could it get even better? ; D )
Thanks again,
Martin
Comment by Martin Varallo — February 25, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
Hi Martin, thanks for the feedback!
Can you tell me which version of FrameSync you have installed? Does it happen when you have no open documents in Flash? If so, this may have been fixed in a more recent version. Otherwise, I’m happy to take a look and see what I can do. Latest version as I write this is 2.0.0.
Comment by Justin — February 25, 2011 @ 10:42 pm
Hi Justin,
Yes I’m running FrameSync 2.0.0, I’ve tried re installing it with the extension manager, but nothing changed. It only appears when I first open Flash. This is in the output window by the way.
I hope this helps…
If you need more let me know.
Comment by Martin Varallo — February 26, 2011 @ 4:51 pm
Hi Martin,
Just to confirm, in Flash CS5, you see the info button next to the refresh button in the FrameSync panel–and when you click it, it shows a pop-up that says ‘version 2.0.0′ inside?
If not, make sure you’re installing with Extension Manager CS5.
If you’re not installing with Extension Manager CS5, you could be updating FrameSync in an older version of Flash. The bug you are referring to should be fixed in 2.0.0 and line 195 doesn’t have a dom variable (because it’s moved since being updated). Hopefully this is the issue.
Comment by Justin — February 26, 2011 @ 7:22 pm
HI Justin,
sorry to say that yes its Extension Manager for CS5 and its definitely 2.0.0. I did check as I do have CS4 on my mac as well… I have no extensions installed for CS4.
Wait..Aha.. I just disabled it in ExtMan, started Flash, no errors. So quit Flash, enabled it and restarted Flash and voila.. no errors… all clean.
Does this help… or go down to one of the millions of quirky things that happen in life.
Thanks for all your work
Cheers ; )
Comment by Martin Varallo — February 26, 2011 @ 8:07 pm
Hmm…Not sure why that happened, Martin, but I’m glad you got it fixed. Maybe something was cached from an old version? Not sure how or why. Certainly strange. Or perhaps something was not properly overwritten on install and it was fixed when you re-enabled the extension? Anyhoo, glad it’s working for you!
Comment by Justin — February 27, 2011 @ 3:56 am