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Flash : BooksMacromedia Flash MX For Dummies
The fun and easy way to jazz up a Web site! Hands on tips for creating buttons, animations, actions and more. Make Web sites come alive with movement, sound, and interactivity, no animation experience required! With Macromedia Flash, you can transform an ordinary Web site into an interactive showplace that'll make visitors say "wow." But how do you get the hang of all those tools and techniques? Don't worry! With this friendly reference, you'll be drawing pictures, building buttons, creating animations, adding sound, setting up actions, and more, in a flash! All this on the bonus CD-ROM. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and FreeHand trial versions. Author created graphic shapes, designs, and images to incorporate into your own Macromedia Flash movies. Includes Adobe Photoshop tryout version and SWiSH demo. Gurdy Leete, a professor of digital media at Maharishi University of Management, has 20 years of computer animation experience.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764508954
Macromedia Flash MX Video
Let's make movies! Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface! With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities. The first section gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output to the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we show you how can apply advanced ActionScript to video, and create a fully object-oriented sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again. Gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways you can produce such wonderful sites.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 300
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450853
Mobile Macromedia Flash MX
This thorough resource will help you build, deploy, and run rich media applications across multiple channels and devices. Plus, utilize JSP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusion MX to port information dynamically. Mobile Macromedia Flash MX shows you why Flash content is used by today's premiere developers to build state-of-the-art interfaces, applications, and animations for computers and devices. Learn the essential of dynamic Flash development; Extend applications with databases, ColdFusion MX, and Flash Remoting; Enhance usability for typical handheld devices; Follow case studies on mobile commerce, communication, and entertainment; Take advantage of the Flash MX user interface components; Learn motion shape tweening; Audio and Video compression for flash movies; Maximize Flash support in mobile platforms and devices such as Microsoft Windows CE, Pocket PC, Casio Cassiopeia, Symbian OS Mobile Phones, Nokia 9200 Communicator, and more mobile flash devices.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 456
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072226455
Teach Yourself Flash 5
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 5 in 24 Hours is specifically written for the new Flash user. Not a revision of a previous book, Phillip Kerman's book begins by covering the basics of Flash 5, including the use of the drawing tools, basic animation skills such as tweening, and putting together simple movies. In the second part, the book covers the more advanced techniques of Flash, including interface design, interactivity, collecting data, and delivering movies to the Internet. The final part of the book takes the reader further into the practical uses of the Flash medium, and includes chapters on developing animation skills, further uses of bitmap graphics, advanced delivery to the Web with preloaders, using Flash in the design of CD ROMs, and using Flash in conjunction with other applications. Built around four main sections, the book starts out by teaching us the basics such as using the native painting and drawing tools.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 587
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 067231892X
Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript
Macromedia Flash delivers sound, interactivity, graphics, and animations across multiple browsers and platforms. It enables developers to create interactive interfaces and distinctive Web applications. ActionScript is the behind-the-scenes programming language that offers greater control and functionality in Flash programming. Sams Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. The reader will be taught basic programming techniques while creating their own interactive Flash movies. Offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. Learn how to create user interactivity on your web site; manage how your Flash movies are streamed to users; use the Script Editing windows to navigate your scripts; create and use Smart Clips through scripting; communicate efficiently with web servers; and control the Flash timeline.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 384
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672323850
Teach Yourself Flash MX
Since its introduction in 1996, Macromedia Flash has become the standard for delivering high impact, vector based graphics to the Web. Flash is deceptively simple at first, yet has great depth and flexibility. Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to this powerful product, and gives the beginner an overview of the entire package, without becoming too overwhelming. Learn how to create optimize, and export dynamic animated movies for the Web, disk or CD; Use digital video in Flash movies; Animate using time tested techniques and Flash's special tweening features; Program with Flash MX's ActionScripting to create interactive movies; Build the appropriate Button, Graphic, and Movie Clip symbols and use them over and over without increasing file size; Import existing graphics from Freehand Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. You will learn the essentials of flash in not time!
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 624
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672323710
Teach Yourself Visually Flash MX
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 130 Flash MX tasks, from animating objects with tweens, working with text, and importing sounds to creating interactive buttons, adding Flash actions to movies, and creating mask layers. "Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks; Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task; Succinct explanations walk you through step by step; Two-page lessons break big topics into bite sized modules. Uses the VISUAL approach to cover new features of Flash MX. Book covers how to create musical tracks, sound effects, dynamic animations, and innovative interfaces; using timelines, adding text effects, and creating tweens with Flash. This Flash book includes over 500 color screenshots.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 320
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764536613
The Web Wizard's Guide to Flash
This book provides a basic introduction to Flash to readers who have minimal computing experience. After working with this book, readers will be able to add exciting Flash animations to their own websites. The author covers essential skills and techniques, quickly allowing readers to use Flash to incorporate attention grabbing animations, buttons, and sounds into their websites. Addison-Wesley's Web Wizard Series is a series of brief, introductory books written by instructors, and covering Internet and Web programming topics of interest to anyone who wants to create web pages. Written for graphic artists new to web design and computer hobbyists, this guide introduces the basics of creating animations, adding action and sounds, and publishing files called movies to the web with the Flash animation program. The final chapters provide an introduction the ActionScript, and outline suggested Flash design practices.
- Cost: $26.00
- Pages: 224
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201764342
Cube Transition Effect
This effect lets you map your starting and target image onto a cube (or hexahedron) which then spins based on your settings. You have full control over this amazing transition; set the length of the animation, the depth of the 'zoom', the direction of the spin and add your own ease formula to create your own 3D world on your project. This component supports animated content and movies. Key features include: Set the length of the transition as well as the depth of the 'zoom'; Set the direction in which the box will move; Add an ease formula to add additional movement; Support animations and videos; Easy to use Extensive example files included; Free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash CS3 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX or Flash 8).
- Cost: €9.99
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Flash CS3 on Windows and Mac
FLV Player
FlvPlayerPRO is a fully skinnable and customizable set of 3 Flash video player components. Includes full flexibility to play FLV files, create playlists, and automatic progressive download. The 3 components include of an FLV player with a pre-built skinnable control panel (flvPlayerPRO), a plain FLV player which allows you to use individual controls (flvDisplayPRO), and a separate playlist component (flvPlaylistPRO). Includes XML support. The flvPlayerPRO-Stream has the same features as the flvPlayerPRO with the additional option to stream FLV movies that are hosted on a streaming server. Features: Fully skinnable background and controls; Includes auto scrollable playlist component with thumbnails; Progressively downloads based on user's connection speed; Stream FLV videos from streaming servers (flvPlayerPRO-Stream only); Feed playlist and main parameters through XML; Zoom and pan controls; Displays titles, descriptions, running time.
- Cost: $59.95 - $79.95
Supreme 4 Components Collection
The followup of the PJ collection, Supreme 4 effects are now also available as Flash MX text effect components. Use text effects directly in your flash movies, no preloads, no load movie. All customizable, highly advanced and spectacular effects. All effects have their own Cusomization Panel with effect-specific parameters. Set the effect to your liking in seconds. Since all effects are components, you can modify any part of the effects directly from the Library. The effect components use scripting so results can be randomly generated.
- Cost: $49.00
- Version: 1.0.0
- Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
AntsSoft SWFText
SWF Text is an author tool of Flash text animation. It embraces 160+ text effects and 30+ background effects, and users may also customize all the properties of a Flash, including font, text color, and layout, etc. With SW FText, a user without any experience of Flash development can easily create a Flash banner or an introductory page within a few minutes. And all you need do is to input text, select font and animation effects. While a veteran Flash designer may use SWF Text for text animation in a project, which sure greatly saves your time and effort. Features: Disables right-click context menu of a Flash movie; Produces Flash movies in compressed format; The background of a Flash movie can be transparent; Independent of language; Has the ability to use all the fonts you have installed in your computer; Supports comprehensive customization of text properties, including style, color, size, transparency, position, and spacing, etc.
- Cost: Trial/$39.95
- Version: 1.2
- Platforms: Windows
Flash Decompiler
Flash Decompiler Trillix is a feature rich and powerful SWF to FLA converter, which will help you decompile Flash movies, convert SWF elements into multiple formats and edit SWF files (dynamic texts, hyperlinks and more) on the go without Adobe Flash installed. Moreover, you will be able to extract all elements from SWF files and save them to your hard drive in various formats. Flash Decompiler supports batch conversion mode. You can simply leave several files to be converted and go have a cup of coffee while Flash Decompiler is working.
- Cost: $79.95
- Version: 5.1
- Platforms: Windows
FlashCapture
Have you ever wanted to save flash files? FlashCapture is an Internet Explorer add-on tool that enables you to save, snapshot, email, and categorize Flash files (.swf) in just one click. Features include one click saving, one click email sending, one click snapshot all with the help of a floating toolbar over any Flash presentation. This software allows you to manage your saved Flash files into categories, capture and save multiple flash files in a web page with one click, and find more flash files by browsing your Internet Explorer Cache.
- Cost: $24.95
- Version: 1.5
- Platforms: Win98/ME/2K/XP
FlashFavorite
An easy way to download flash from web pages without having to view the source of a webpage. When you were surfing on the internet, have you ever experienced such things: Playing Flash games; Watching comic Flash movies; Reading Flash based charts. You need an easy-to-use flash saver to save your time. FlashFavorite allows you to browse and download flash files on the currently open web pages. You can preview each Flash (.swf) file with the built-in viewer and optionally rename it and save the Flash clip in a user defined category.
- Cost: $16.95
- Version: 1.20
- Platforms: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
KoolMoves
Flash animation is easy with KoolMoves. It is ideal for creating animated web pages, animated text effects, flash banners, multimedia slide shows, spalsh pages, flying logos, complex navigation systems, interactive games, character animation, and intro pages. It features libraries of text effects templates, web page templates, vector clip art and buttons, action script text effects, transition effects, spin and rotate effects. For advanced users, it even has Flash MX action scripting, dynamic text fields, and bones character animation.
- Cost: $39.09
- Version: 4.1
- Platforms: Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
Flash Tutorial
This Flash tutorial guides you through some of the basics. Topics include: Flash Basicss; Flash Drawing; Flash Buttons; Flash Tweenings; Flash and JavaScript. This resource also includes an FLA archive. Some of the specifics include: What is shockwave Flash? What do I need to create my own Flash movies? Learn to create Draw with Flash, explains the Flash toolbox, how to draw basic lines and shapes; Learn to create both simple buttons and advanced tell target buttons. Learn to change objects between two keyframes using Flash tweening.
- Cost: Free
Streaming Flash Educational Videos
Nortel Network's KidzOnline offers a series of entertaining tutorial videos completely free. Join host Gino and his animated side-kick Tweener as they explore the basics of Flash, the history of 2D animation, animation principles, the Flash interface, the toolbox, keyframing, tweening, actionscripting, importing, symbols, using sound, and even special effects. Unlike most online Flash resources, these videos and associated E-learning materials are professional productions due to KidzOnline's 3 million dollar annual budget.
- Cost: Free
- Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
Flash MX Online Training
The Flash MX course is aimed at intermediate to advanced media designers and developers who want to learn the latest techniques for animating graphics and enhancing visual media with sound and music. Topics covered include: Drawing tools, design concepts, animation techniques, text and forms in animation, compound objects, scenes, timelines, layers, filters, masks and incorporating sound and music into Flash movies. Each topic covered includes tips and techniques for maximizing the effectiveness of Flash MX when viewed on the Web.
- Cost: $76.00
