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Add Text to a Document
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 provide a variety of text features and options. This lesson introduces you to the three primary types of text you can add to a document. You can add static text for titles, labels, or other text content you want to appear in a document. You can also use input text options to allow viewers to interact with your Flash application for example, to enter their name or other information in a form.
Add Flash Player Controls To Your Video
In this tutorial I will show you how to convert a video to flash and how to add player controls enabling the full-screen option. You will need Adobe Flash to follow along.
How to Add Sound in Flash 8
This tutorial will teach you how to basically add sound into your Flash movies or games.
How To Import And Add Sound To A Movie
In this video clip tutorial you will learn the following: How to import sounds and place them in the timeline in Flash. How to preview a new imported sound in Flash. How to add sound to a movie using the timeline window in Flash.
Flash Sound
In this tutorial you will learn how to add sound to your Flash Movie. This tutorial explains how to Import sound files into your Flash movie and then looks at the two different ways in which Flash handles sound: Event and Streamed sound. There is an explanation of both sound types and practical instructions of how to use each of these in your Flash Movies.
Hyperlinks In Flash Flash tutorial
So you want to know how to add a hyperlink to your Flash project. Hyperlinks are incredibly common among the web community, and it's possible to use them within Flash, with only a few lines of Actionscript. So, to begin, open Flash. Draw yourself a button or some text. Once you've done that, convert it to a symbol by right clicking it and selecting "Convert To Symbol...". Make sure you select Button from the behaviour list.
Sound In Flash
Sound is one of the key senses. It adds depth, feeling and emotion to what is being viewed. Flash enables designers to apply this level of engagement. This lesson will cover how to add sound to your Flash Movies.
Hyperlinks In Flash
Find out how to add hyper links to your Flash project.
Sound
In this tutorial you will learn how to add sound to your Flash Movie. This tutorial explains how to Import sound files into your Flash movie and then looks at the two different ways in which Flash handles sound: Event and Streamed sound. There is an explanation of both sound types and practical instructions of how to use each of these in your Flash Movies.
Creating a banner
This tutorial is suitable for you if you're opening Flash 8 for the first time. This tutorial shows you some of the fundamental aspects of the program, and how to get started using them to build a real project. You don't need to know anything about Flash or animation to complete this tutorial; in fact, you'll discover how easy it is to start using Flash 8 to add elements to your web pages.
Flash 8 Accessibility Design Guidelines: Text Equivalents
This document explains when and how to use the Accessibility panel in Macromedia Flash to add text equivalents to elements of a Macromedia Flash movie. Continue reading for information on the following topics: Text in Macromedia Flash Player 8, Adding Text Equivalents in Macromedia Flash 8, Accessible Elements of a Macromedia Flash Movie.
How To Create & Add A Simple Mask
you will learn the following:How to create and use a fill shape as a mask in Flash,How to preview a mask in Flash,How to use the timeline window to animate the mask in Flash.
Glowing Text Effect Animation in Flash
This tutorial with teach you how to add a great effect using the glow filter within Flash 8.
Add motion blur to Flash animations
In this tutorial you're going to learn how to add a motion blur effect to your animation, using a third party software.
Common Mistakes with Actions and Buttons
There are two ways to add actions to a button in Flash. You can add the actions to the button itself or you can refer to the button when adding actions to a frame. Unfortunately, the actions you add will be a little different depending on which method you choose. Because of this difference, the ActionScript involved can be a little confusing to beginners. In this video, we'll clear up all the confusion and fix some common mistakes that are made in the process.
Creating and Animating Clouds in Flash
One of the most popular features of Flash Professional 8 is the new "Filters" feature, which lets you add blurs, drop shadows, glows, and other filters to your objects. In today's tip, you'll learn how to use the "blur" filter to create some very realistic clouds, and then you'll learn how to animate those clouds in Flash. Unfortunately, if you don't have Flash Professional 8, you'll just have to sit back and watch.
Using SWISH movies in Flash without Importing
I would like to propose to you a way of using SWISH movies into a standard Flash movie that is more flexible and reusable than importing. You use the LoadMovie action from Flash and keep the SWISH movie as an external .swf file.The method is simple. You create a placeholder movie clip in Flash and position it as you like in the main scene (giving it an instance name), and then add a frame action to load the SWISH movie into it.
Flash Image Animation
This tutorial will show you how to add tool tips to any flash project.Tool tips are extremely useful for informing users of what is interactive in a flash project. The method I use to employ tool tips is very simple and easy to use. It will be done with a single movieclip for all toop tips to keep file size down.
Add Button Animation and Navigation
A button is a symbol that contains special frames for different button states, such as when the user's mouse pointer is over the button or when the user clicks the button. When you select the Button behavior for a new symbol, Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 create the Timeline for the button states. You can add navigation to buttons by using behaviors or by writing ActionScript. This tutorial teaches you about creating and modifying buttons, including adding animation to a button.
Embed Flash Into MS Powerpoint
Adding a little of interactivity and animation to your powepoint presentation can greatly ease sending your message to your audiance. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you in very easy steps how to add flash swf files to your Powerpoint slides.
Adding and Controlling Music in a Flash Movie
Simple step-by-step tutorial. You may learn how to add sound to flash movie and turn it on and off using buttons.
Exporting from Swish
Learn how to export swish file for inclusion into your flash movie. This function will allow you to add complicated effects easily to you flash movie.
Flash Button
Create a flash button. I will also show you how to add some sound to you button and animation it on the mouse over.
Add Interactivity
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 offer numerous ways to engage users with interactivity. When you incorporate interactivity, you're not limited to playing each frame in a timeline sequentially; however, sequential playing offers greater design and development options. This tutorial will show you some of the ways to implement interactivity in Flash.
Adding, editing, and removing timeline effects
In this tutorial, we will show you how to add, edit, and remove timeline effects.Timeline effects are a great way for the beginner to add some really neat effects to the projects. You only have to install Flash MX 2004, and follow the next step.
Getting Started in Flash 5
There are two types of people that will be reading this tutorial. Those that have used flash 4 and those that have just bought their copy of Flash 5 and have absolutely no idea about anything but are keen to learn. If you fit latter category, you are in the right place! If you have used Flash 4 then you best introduction to Flash 5 is the Flash 5 tour.
Sound Loops
Here's an easy tutorial for Flash beginners on how to add sound loops to the flash movie.
Skip Intro
Add "Skip Intro" button to larger Flash animations so inpatient or dial-up users can go straight to your home page by using Flash Designer.
Bouncing Text
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a bouncing text effect using flash 8. It is a very simple effect no action scripts. Its a nice affect you can add to your flash projects.
Using Anchors To Bookmark And Navigate
With Flash MX you have the option to publish your movies with Named Anchors. This will add anchor tags to your HTML enabling your viewers to bookmark pages inside your flash movies as well as use their browser back and forward buttons.
Adding Text
Flash movies aren't just moving shapes, text can be used to give an extra dimension. In Flash, you can adjust the font, style, size, spacing, colour and alignment of your text like a word processor. You can also transform your text like in photoshop with such options as rotation, flip and skew. The text can also be broken apart into its individual characters and reshaped and what makes Flash soooo cool is that you can create editable text in movies which allow the users to add, modify and access text just like your boring old HTML web pages.
Creating Flash Pop-Up Windows with the attachMovie method
This tutorial shows you how to use the attachMovie method to add a Flash pop-up window to your project.
Adding sound to a button
This flash tutorial will teach you how to add sound to a button. This tutorial is useful if you want to create a mouse over sound effect which can be used in flash websites, applications and games.
Falling Snow Header Flash
A Flash tutorial to add falling snow to a Flash header.
Flash and JavaScript 3D with Sandy-HX - Skybox
Add a skybox to your 3D Flash or JavaScript game.
Flash Image Animation
This tutorial will show you how to add interactivity to an image imported into Flash. This is a very simple technique that, matched with a bit of creativity, can produce some very dynamic results. A scenery picture works well to learn the technique. You can use individual trees, mountains, or grass as individual objects from the image.
Getting Your PowerPoint Content Into Flash
This tutorial will show you one way to move content from an existing PowerPoint presentation to a Flash project. You might want to add more sophisticated animation and interactivity to your presentation than PowerPoint offers, or you might want to make your presentation more "web-friendly." This tutorial will help you to move your existing PowerPoint slides--so you can save time by not having to recreate your presentation from scratch in Flash.
How to make date & time appear in Flash MX!
This tutorial will explain how to add the time & date in Flash MX.
Flash Mask Effect
In this tutorial I will explain how to recreate the effect shown above using Flash 8 and Photoshop. It is a simple effect that looks great. I will also create a video tutorial for this example, the video tutorial is meant to clarify some of the process. You will have read the tutorial to understand it. If you like this Tutorial please click here to Digg us or add the tutorial to Del.icio.us
Flash Plugin Detection in Flash 8
Flash plugin detection is very easy to implement in Flash 8. Its actually built-in. In this tutorial I will show you how to activate Flash plugin detection for whatever version of Flash that your Flash document requires.
 
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