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Security Changes in Flash Player 8

Security Changes in Flash Player 8 In Flash Player 8 Macromedia has changed the security model that’s applied to local Flash cont …

Flash Player 8 security changes

Flash Player 8 security changes Here are the security-related limitations in Flash Player 8 compared to the previous version: Local sa …

Migrating Flash Projects to Video

Macromedia Flash is everywhere. No seriously, it is everywhere. Not only is Flash used for online and offline movies, websites, games, …

Setting Up the Stage for Video

Setting Up the Stage for Video Let’s start with the basics. Open a new Flash document and then select Modify > Document (Contr …

Ensuring Title and Action Safety

Ensuring Title and Action Safety Televisions do not generally display the entire width and height of your movie. They show a smaller po …

Using Safe Colors

Using Safe Colors The computer monitor you are looking at as you read this article is designed to display the full range of 256 RGB col …

Handling Movie Clips and Graphic Symbols

Handling Movie Clips and Graphic Symbols Exporting Flash projects to video format requires everything to be on the main Timeline. Graph …

Exporting to Video

Exporting to Video Your movie is now ready for exporting. You have the right aspect ratio, frame rate, and colors, and everything is on …

Handling Audio

Handling Audio If your Flash project contains any audio, there are some important technical details you need to consider. Quality is im …

Exporting Dynamic Content with SWF2Video

Exporting Dynamic Content with SWF2Video I know I said earlier that when you author content for video, avoid dynamic content completely …

Using Bitmap Caching in Flash

Using Bitmap Caching in FlashAs most of you know, Flash began as a tool for creating vector animations on the web. Flash Player was des …

How Bitmap Caching Works

How Bitmap Caching Works When you turn on bitmap caching for any given movie clip, the player converts the contents of the movie clip i …

When to Use Bitmap Caching

When to Use Bitmap Caching If used correctly, bitmap caching can dramatically reduce the amount of updating instructions that the rende …

Bitmap Caching and Memory Usage

Bitmap Caching and Memory Usage Bitmap caching naturally makes Flash Player use more memory, because for every cached movie clip the pl …

Built-in Rules for Bitmap Caching

Built-in Rules for Bitmap Caching Flash guides you through best practices of using bitmap caching through some built-in restrictions. B …

Best Practices for Flash Player Detection

Best Practices for Flash Player DetectionThe problem has riddled developers since the birth of Macromedia Flash: What happens when a si …

So Many Solutions, So Little Success

So Many Solutions, So Little Success Over the years, I’ve met hundreds of Flash developers, and many of them have their own way o …

Security Changes in Macromedia Flash Player 7

Note: This article concerns changes to the security model in Macromedia Flash 7. Macromedia has made some changes to the cross-domain s …

Exporting Captivate Content to Flash MX 2004

As you already know, Macromedia Captivate is a powerful tool for creating robust software simulations quickly and effectively. Captivat …

Exporting a Captivate Project to Flash

Exporting a Captivate Project to Flash The first thing to do before exporting to Flash is to create a Captivate file or open an existin …

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