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Setting Up Your Environment

Setting Up Your Environment
To follow this code walkthrough, you will need on_demand_player.zip, the sample file download that accompan …

Nice Free Desktop Computer Wallpaper Theme

Retro Paper! Create a retro style wallpaper effect!This tutorial will show you a simple method to create an effecive wallpaper th …

Creating Shape Tweens

Creating Shape Tweens
By tweening shapes, you can create an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another …

Using Shape Hints with Shape Tweens

Using Shape Hints with Shape Tweens
To control more complex or improbable shape changes, you can use shape hints. Shape hints identify …

Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations

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 …

Editing Your Animations

Editing Your Animations
In Flash 8 you can use various tools to edit your animations, such as commands to insert frames, modify keyfram …

Using Timeline Effects

Using Timeline Effects
Flash includes prebuilt Timeline effects that enable you to create complex animations with a minimal number of s …

About Scripting Animation

About Scripting Animation
You can use ActionScript 2.0 to add animation to your Flash applications instead of using motion or shape twe …

Using the Tween and TransitionManager Classes

Using the Tween and TransitionManager Classes
When you install Flash Basic 8 or Flash Professional 8, you also install two powerful cla …

Combining Animation, Filters, and the Tween Cl ...

Combining Animation, Filters, and the Tween Class
You can use ActionScript, such as the Tween class, to animate filters at runtime, whi …

Combining Animation and the Drawing API

Combining Animation and the Drawing API
You can combine the Drawing API with the Tween and TransitionManager classes to create some exc …

Designing and Animating Characters in Flash 8

Designing and Animating Characters in Flash 8
Many animators use Macromedia Flash for detailed vector-based animation. One of the stren …

Drawing in Flash

Drawing in Flash
Macromedia Flash offers several drawing tools for creating cool characters and more. Each tool differs from the others …

Working with Symbols

Working with Symbols
Symbols are the very essence of what makes Flash … well, Flash. You can make anything you draw or import int …

Cleaning Up Your Sketches

Cleaning Up Your Sketches
Every good design usually starts with the time-tested pencil and paper. I’ve had some of my most creat …

Introducing "2.5D"

Introducing “2.5D”
Just because tweening in Flash is easy does not mean you can always rely on it for creating convincing a …

Creating a Talking-Head Flash Video

Creating a Talking-Head Flash Video
Author: Tom Green HomePage: http://www.tomontheweb.ca
The product page for Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 …

How Keying Works

How Keying Works
If you watch any television news, you’ve seen the keying technique in action. Weather forecasters use it all the …

Creating a Masked Video in Adobe Premiere

Creating a Masked Video in Adobe Premiere
Adobe Premiere has been around for well over a decade. In many respects, it has become entren …

Exporting a QuickTime Movie with Alpha Channel ...

Exporting a QuickTime Movie with Alpha Channel in Premiere
Now that you have keyed out the green screen in Premiere, you can create the …

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