AE timeline in Flash

I could not help noticing quiet a few posts on other blogs that have the same item on their wish-lists for the Adobe+Macromedia company: Implement the After Effects timeline into the Flash IDE.

I must say that I’m not at all convinced if this would be a good thing. When i started to use Flash 2 I was doing loads of Director work, and I was absolutely frustrated by the Flash timeline. My heart took a leap when Adobe announced Live Motion. I thought exactly the same thing: Wow, Flash with a After Effects timeline. After playing with Live Motion for a while I was happy to get back to my now beloved Flash timeline, and I still think although nothing has happened to the it since Flash 5 (except for folders…) that the timeline does it’s job really well. LiveMotion never managed to convince me with it’s implementation of the AE timeline. I guess the AE timeline works only if you don’t have to do any frame-by-frame animations or have multiple objects on one keyframe.