Cleaning Up Your Sketches Every good design usually starts with the time-tested pencil and paper. I've had some of my most creative moments during long and boring management seminars...
Embedding Flash Video into a Web Page In this exercise, you insert an FLV file with a controller into a supplied web page in several easy steps. You have two...
Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations A frame-by-frame animation changes the contents of the Stage in every frame and is best suited to a complex animation in which an image changes in every...
Introducing "2.5D" Just because tweening in Flash is easy does not mean you can always rely on it for creating convincing animations. Don't get me wrong: Tweening can be a...
Controlling Flash Video with the FLVPlayback Behaviors The FLVPlayback behaviors are the next generation of media behaviors for use with Flash Video. They are designed to give you easy-to-use controls...
Editing Your Animations In Flash 8 you can use various tools to edit your animations, such as commands to insert frames, modify keyframes, onion-skinning tools, and the ability to move...
Creating a Talking-Head Flash VideoAuthor: Tom Green HomePage: http://www.tomontheweb.ca The product page for Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 shows some videos in a pod called Customer Success Stories. If you take the...
Controlling Media Components with Flash Behaviors Displaying video content is easier than ever before in Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 thanks to the new media components that display video saved...
Using Timeline Effects Flash includes prebuilt Timeline effects that enable you to create complex animations with a minimal number of steps. You can apply Timeline effects to the following objects:...
How Keying Works If you watch any television news, you've seen the keying technique in action. Weather forecasters use it all the time. The meteorologist stands in front of a...
Load and Display Multiple Videos One of the cool new features of the FLVPlayback component is its ability to load multiple Flash Video (FLV) files into a single component instance....
About Scripting Animation You can use ActionScript 2.0 to add animation to your Flash applications instead of using motion or shape tweens on a timeline. The following sections show you...