webcg-adobe-animate-adapter
v1.3.0
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Adapter for Adobe Animate HTML5 Canvas graphic overlays for WebCG and CasparCG
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webcg-adobe-animate-adapter
webcg-adobe-animate-adapter is an adapter to use Adobe Animate HTML5 Canvas templates (graphic overlays) with CasparCG. The adapter provides the same features as the TemplateHost of the CasparCG's flash producer, plus additional development and debug tools that make it easy to test your templates without a CasparCG instance. Have a look at the live example lower third template and its source code.
Features
- Support of ACMP commands
play
,next
,stop
,update
andinvoke
. - Support of "intro" and "outro" labels for playing and stopping.
- Support of jumping to labels using ACMP
invoke
. - Automatic update of template instances according to the provided data via
update
. - Three data formats: plain JavaScript object, JSON and the templateData XML format.
- The adapter comes with lazy-loaded development tools that provide a user interface to edit the template data and invoke the above commands.
Installation
This section describes how to install and integrate the adapter with your existing Adobe Animate HTML5 Canvas template. If you are looking for full instructions on how to create HTML5 Canvas templates with Adobe Animate, head over to my blog and follow the tutorial.
- Visit https://github.com/indr/webcg-adobe-animate-adapter/releases and download the latest webcg-adobe-animate-adapter.zip.
- Extract the archive and place the two JavaScript files
webcg-adobe-animate-adapter.umd.js
andwebcg-devtools.umd.js
in thelibs
folder of your Adobe Animate project. - Include
webcg-adobe-animate-adapter.umd.js
in your publish template by either- adding
<script src="libs/webcg-adobe-animate-adapter.umd.js"></script>
after the<title>$TITLE</title>
, or - importing the publish template
Adobe-Animate-Publish-Template.html
, or - importing the publish profile
Adobe-Animate-Publish-Profile.apr
.
- adding
- Test your movie and append
&debug=true
in your browsers address bar or
publish your movie, open the HTML file and append?debug=true
to see the DevTools.
Contributing
npm run build
builds the library to dist
.npm run dev
builds the library, then keeps rebuilding it whenever the source files change.npm run test
run the unit tests in watch mode.npm run demo
starts a demo at localhost:8080.
Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2018 Reto Inderbitzin, MIT License