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I'm working on a project where we are creating a tool as a sort of helper app that we can use to create an animation using HTML5/JS GSAP (not Flash version) and then export the animation with transparency for use on the web as a standalone file such as animated GIF, MOV or MP4 as a transparent layer in a video editing program. The animation tool will focus on the goodies from the DrawSVG, MorphSVG and SplitText plugins. So, obviously we would chain together a bunch of GSAP scripts and then try to capture the completed animation playing inside a specific container using some sort of rendering process that gets converted into the above mentioned filetypes. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? I am working in a Node.js environment so will have all that's possible in Node available to me including file system access. I am hoping someone has already created an export tool that can be plugged in to our helper application. Thanks in advance!

Hi. I'm looking for feedback on my new project, here is a little background on how it became. My clients sometimes send me an already working preview for the animation they have. They either want a creative update or a different size banner. To match the timing as close as possible, I usually record the animation as mp4 and then using a video player with pause/play extract necessary time keys. To simplify this, I created a tool that records the video for me. Just pass the URL get back the mp4 video. I thought it could also be used to export the animation (html5, index.html, zip package) as an mp4 and then used as a video advertisement on FB or Instagram,... https://urlrec.com/ Any feedback on your workflow and if this is something you would use would be excellent.

Hi, I am having some trouble on my project. I made some animations using TimelineLite and it works great. The animation are all images and texts moving around and video playing on background. But recently I was asked to export this animations to mp4. I tried many ways on doing it, but no success. 1. I have followed this topic below. It works fine when the animation contains only static images. with a <video> playing on background I just cant do it. 2. I have tried to use headless browser to record my screen, but its too slow I just couldn't get screenshots or screencast (chrome) with less than 300ms. Does anybody have idea on what I can do? Thanks.

Hey fellow GreenSockers, I’ve seen some demos and questions lately with SVGs containing nested groups that are 10 deep and generic class names that aren’t helpful. This makes your job tougher, so I thought I’d share a few tips for better SVG exports from Adobe Illustrator. I’ve created a simple SVG with a background rectangle, some ungrouped squares, a group of circles, a group of lines and one open wavy path. Here’s the artwork with the layer panel in AI. Tip 1: IDs If you have elements that you know you’ll be targeting individually, give them an ID in AI. In this case I’ve given each of the colored squares a name. I’ve also named the wavy open path. Tip 2: Grouping If you have a group of elements that you’ll want to stagger or somehow target as a group, create a group for them. Simply select all of them and pressing Ctrl + G will make a group for you. You can also create a sub-layer and add them to it or create an entirely separate layer. Do whatever works for you. Just get them grouped before export. You can see in my layers panels I have a masterGroup around everything and then nested groups around the straight lines and circles. The elements in those groups do not need an ID as I’ll have no need to target them individually. You can also use nested groups within nested groups. Maybe a character has a group called ‘#face’, but the eyes need to be their own group within the face group. If that’s what you need for control, go for it. Tip 3: Export Settings Choose File –-> Export –-> Export As --> then choose ‘Save as type: SVG’. The directory is unimportant as you won’t actually be saving it. Choose Export at the bottom of that panel and then we’ll get to the important settings. The next screen you’ll see will be for the SVG Options. At this point you could choose OK and the file would be saved, but I find it best to click to ‘Show Code’ instead. That will launch a text editor which will allow you to copy and paste the code into your editor. Make certain the Object IDs is set to Layer Names. If not, the group names and path IDs will not come through to the SVG. The most important setting here is the Styling. If you choose: Internal CSS, you’ll get a bunch of generic class names. The IDs will still come through, but I don’t find generic class names helpful at all. Here’s what you get with that export. <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1000" height="500" viewBox="0 0 1000 500"> <defs> <style> .cls-1 { fill: #333; } .cls-2 { fill: #ff0; } .cls-3 { fill: #7ac943; } .cls-4 { fill: #3fa9f5; } .cls-5 { fill: #ff931e; } .cls-6 { fill: none; stroke: #e6e6e6; stroke-miterlimit: 10; stroke-width: 4px; } </style> </defs> <g id="backgroundGroup"> <rect id="backgroundGray" class="cls-1" width="1000" height="500"/> </g> <g id="masterGroup"> <g id="nestedCircles"> <circle class="cls-2" cx="650" cy="150" r="50"/> <circle class="cls-3" cx="650" cy="350" r="50"/> <circle class="cls-4" cx="850" cy="150" r="50"/> <circle class="cls-5" cx="850" cy="350" r="50"/> </g> <rect id="greenBox" class="cls-3" x="100" y="100" width="100" height="100"/> <rect id="blueBox" class="cls-4" x="100" y="300" width="100" height="100"/> <rect id="orangeBox" class="cls-5" x="300" y="100" width="100" height="100"/> <rect id="yellowBox" class="cls-2" x="300" y="300" width="100" height="100"/> <path id="wavyPath" class="cls-6" d="M68,457c45.67-15.25,115.6-33,201-31,84.49,2,104.92,21.37,193,25,108.61,4.48,136.93-22.58,236-28,61.7-3.37,150.91,1.64,262,43"/> <g id="straightLines"> <line class="cls-6" x1="450" y1="100" x2="450" y2="400"/> <line class="cls-6" x1="500" y1="100" x2="500" y2="400"/> <line class="cls-6" x1="550" y1="100" x2="550" y2="400"/> </g> </g> </svg> For styling I prefer to set it to Presentation Attributes. Here’s what you get with that setting. <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1000" height="500" viewBox="0 0 1000 500"> <g id="backgroundGroup"> <rect id="backgroundGray" width="1000" height="500" fill="#333"/> </g> <g id="masterGroup"> <g id="nestedCircles"> <circle cx="650" cy="150" r="50" fill="#ff0"/> <circle cx="650" cy="350" r="50" fill="#7ac943"/> <circle cx="850" cy="150" r="50" fill="#3fa9f5"/> <circle cx="850" cy="350" r="50" fill="#ff931e"/> </g> <rect id="greenBox" x="100" y="100" width="100" height="100" fill="#7ac943"/> <rect id="blueBox" x="100" y="300" width="100" height="100" fill="#3fa9f5"/> <rect id="orangeBox" x="300" y="100" width="100" height="100" fill="#ff931e"/> <rect id="yellowBox" x="300" y="300" width="100" height="100" fill="#ff0"/> <path id="wavyPath" d="M68,457c45.67-15.25,115.6-33,201-31,84.49,2,104.92,21.37,193,25,108.61,4.48,136.93-22.58,236-28,61.7-3.37,150.91,1.64,262,43" fill="none" stroke="#e6e6e6" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="4"/> <g id="straightLines"> <line x1="450" y1="100" x2="450" y2="400" fill="none" stroke="#e6e6e6" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="4"/> <line x1="500" y1="100" x2="500" y2="400" fill="none" stroke="#e6e6e6" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="4"/> <line x1="550" y1="100" x2="550" y2="400" fill="none" stroke="#e6e6e6" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="4"/> </g> </g> </svg> The output is much cleaner and any of those attributes can be easily controlled with CSS or GSAP. This code straight out of AI is ready to animate with no cleanup necessary. You can quickly target those group child elements for whatever you need. It’s the best of both worlds as you can get to each element for a stagger without the need for unique IDs and you can also control them as a collective. The nested circles can be targeted like this: tl.staggerFrom("#nestedCircles circle", 0.5, {attr:{r:0}}, 0.15); Or easily targeted as a group: tl.to("#nestedCircles", 1, {svgOrigin:"750 250", rotation:360}); Bottom line: Better artwork prep will make your GreenSock life easier. Proper names and grouping before you export will make your animation work go faster as you won’t have to fumble with meaningless class names and trying to group things in your code editor. That’s not to say that you can’t tweak a few names or groups – I do that all the time. But the more things you can have exported from AI correctly, the easier your coding and animation work will be. Of course, all this is just my two-cent opinion. Take from it what you will. Hopefully some of it will be helpful. Happy tweening.

Ok my question is sort of related to this so just put it out there for reference: https://greensock.com/forums/topic/14782-exportimport-timelinestweens-to-json/ I have been using fabric.js with GSAP to create an app to make animations. I have run into a problem where i need to save animation in the db. I am saving my canvas as a JSON. Then the way i went about saving the saving the timeline is by just saving the whole timeline object. I think the saving is working (tell me if I am wrong?) but I think its the fact that the timeline doesn't see the reloaded canvas and its objects as the same. ?? If so what about the ideal solution here. Btw I am very new to GSAP and I am using for my project and love it so far. The fact that I am new I could be missing something very obvious and so far the forums have been helpful with the answers already up and now I am hoping someone can help me with my mine. Thanks in Advance. Regards, Mr P

Hi all, I am trying to find a way to export the timeline animation to a mp4(compressed) video. Does someone know how this can be done? Will really appreciate your inputs and suggestions. Thanks

I've been using GSAP for a few months now. I'm currently using TweenMax in a project that allows users to set entrance/exit animations for HTML elements. I've written the code that adds each entrance/exit timeline to parent timelines. What I'm wondering, though, is whether there's a way to export all timeline/tween properties to JavaScript Objects or JSON, store the data, and subsequently import the data after reloading the webpage? In theory, this would prevent the need to create each timeline on the fly with each web request. Thanks to anyone who can help me out. I'm currently using TimelineMax together with CSSPlugin.

I am creating a CD (offline) for my customers I am using TweenMax (last version) for some animations and trasitions When I export to .exe my work (with Flash Player), the animations created with TweenMax NO working I like me some help, thanks