Well, such things exist - or seem to. I have demos of Toon Boom and Anime Studio lying around, both of which purport to be able to output SWF. There are even some studios that use these tools for animation.
The thing is, interoperation with the existing market requires you to be able to throw around FLAs. Nothing else reads or writes them except the Flash editor. This is the painful lock-in.
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Date: 2008-01-30 07:09 pm (UTC)The thing is, interoperation with the existing market requires you to be able to throw around FLAs. Nothing else reads or writes them except the Flash editor. This is the painful lock-in.