All of a sudden all my Flash Animation from the Graphic’s library stopped working.

[Telmo]

All of a sudden, all my Flash Animation from n the Graphic’s library stopped working. When I click on any of them they seem not running. Has anyone here experienced this??

[RobertOZ]

Well, they are swf files which are no longer supported, since Adobe discontinued Flash Player, I am surprised that I can still access them on the WIN 7 OS, but I do still have Flash Player installed, they are also available to use in VS2018, but not available in VS2018 on the Win 10 OS

[alanball]

Refer to this link.
https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=67960

[Telmo]

Well, they are swf files which are no longer supported, since Adobe discontinued Flash Player, I am surprised that I can still access them on the WIN 7 OS, but I do still have Flash Player installed, they are also available to use in VS2018, but not available in VS2018 on the Win 10 OS

Thank you Robert. The funny thing is that I can't find them on my VideoStudio Ultimate 2021 either. I liked so much those flash animations. Is there an alternative for that??

[lata]

As of 2019 a new library structure was used with some new samples, all SWF was no longer provided within the Graphics Library, Share Mov saw the introduction of Mov Alpha channels allowing us to render using transparent backgrounds. The nearest thing VS has to SWF.

2020 had additional changes with the graphics being renamed to overlays, many new samples here.

The point is swf files are dead, not Corel but a Microsoft decision.

It was at the beginning of the year when they finally pulled the plug, we did find a workround in the topic that AllanBall posted
A lot of work to convert them all.

If you need a specific file I may be able to help as i have converted some but not all files.

As for 2021 there are still some SWF files being used in some templates, needless to say those templates will not work as designed

[Telmo]

As of 2019 a new library structure was used with some new samples, all SWF was no longer provided within the Graphics Library, Share Mov saw the introduction of Mov Alpha channels allowing us to render using transparent backgrounds. The nearest thing VS has to SWF.

2020 had additional changes with the graphics being renamed to overlays, many new samples here.

The point is swf files are dead, not Corel but a Microsoft decision.

It was at the beginning of the year when they finally pulled the plug, we did find a workround in the topic that AllanBall posted
A lot of work to convert them all.

If you need a specific file I may be able to help as i have converted some but not all files.

As for 2021 there are still some SWF files being used in some templates, needless to say those templates will not work as designed

Sure, I'd love to have those flash animation Hearts punping with transparent background and also the shadows claping hands.

[lata]

Alpha Mov files are much larger than the SWF files, as such i have 6Gb of files, far to large to upload all using my slow internet connection
If you can be more specific and give me a name of the SWF I should be able to locate, if I have that particular version.

I know others son the forum saved swf to other formats which should work with Chroma key to remove the background.

[Telmo]

Alpha Mov files are much larger than the SWF files, as such i have 6Gb of files, far to large to upload all using my slow internet connection
If you can be more specific and give me a name of the SWF I should be able to locate, if I have that particular version.

I know others son the forum saved swf to other formats which should work with Chroma key to remove the background.

Thank you, I was able to sorted it out. I used a program called "WonderFox SXF to Gif Converter" and worked fine. Now I have my favorite flash animations converted to Gif.