Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shock wave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie.

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Preload External Flash Movies using Movie Clips
This tutorial shows you an easy way to load one Flash Movie into another. This loads the external Flash SWF Movie into a Movie Clip with the help of the Progress Bar Component. Loading a Movie into an MC means that you can address the Movie Clip in the ActionScript and change the Movie Clips properties. This MC includes the external swf file so any change that you impose on the Movie Clip also changes the external Movie nested within.

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Movie Clip in a movie
This Flash Tutorial addresses how to make a movie in a movie. I've noticed in the forums that many beginners to Flash often conceptualize a Flash movie as one long movie with one time line. It is important beginners learn early that Flash may alternatively be conceptualized as many small movies, or movieClips, which are called to the main time line to play as needed. As you become more familiar with Flash you will learn that this is really a great way to create Flash movies. A few of the many advantages include better control of your main time line, and the ability to reuse movie clips in completely different Flash movies.

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Preloading Main Movie With Levels all Together in Flash MX
I have struggled so hard to find a cure for this. After trial and errors, thank God, I found a way to preload the main movie with levels all at the same. Some websites preload levels one at a time and it will get annoying for some users to wait every time for a different movie to load. If you follow this tutorial carefully, you should have no problem.

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Load Movie
Using Load Movie to load external movies as part of a Flash website.

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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.

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Preloading External Flash Movies Flash tutorial
This preloader tutorial shows you how to load an external Flash file into another Flash file with a preloader. This gives you the opportunity to break your Flash Movie into several more manageable parts rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user need only wait for that section of the Movie that they wish to view to preload rather than waiting for a much larger file to load.

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Preloading Main Movie With Levels all Together
I have struggled so hard to find a cure for this. After trial and errors, thank God, I found a way to preload the main movie with levels all at the same. Some websites preload levels one at a time and it will get annoying for some users to wait every time for a different movie to load.

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Movies & Flash
After reading Hillman Curtis's great book "Flash Web Design", I too started experimenting with using Movies in my animations. And anyone who has any interest in it can too. You don't even need a video camera at all. Just go to the web and download some royalty free QuickTime Movie clips (for free) and add them to your animation. So, below you'll see an example I did by using QuickTime 4's Sample Movie.

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Preload External Flash Movies using Components Flash tutorial
In this preloader tutorial you will learn how to load an external Flash file into another Flash Movie using the Loader and Progress Bar Components. The use of Components make this is very simple and quick build. You can then break up your Flash project into several Flash movies rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user only needs to wait for that section of the site that they wish to view.

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Movie Clips
A Movie Clip is a movie, like any of which we can have created until now in this tutorial, but this one is included within another movie and at the same time it can contain movies inserted in itself.

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Creating movie clips
Movie clips are one of the building blocks of Flash. You will use them all the time. Learn to create a movie clip symbol, make instances out of it, work with the library and more.

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Communication between Flash Movies
This tutorial shows you how to send information or instructions from one Flash Move to another on the same web page. There is theoretically no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie. You can control and communicate between any two Flash Movies on the same page or on different pages. It is also be possible to communicate between more than two Flash Movies.

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Playing a Flash Movie Backwards
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to make a movie play in reverse. You will also learn how to create a controller Movie Clip, which will give an automated instruction from one part of a Flash movie to another, this is fundamental to programming in Flash and has many uses. You will also learn how to switch these instructions on and off. Examples of other Flash movies, that use controllers, are listed at the end of this page.

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Solve Cache Problems when you Load a Movie
When you load a movie, variables, or a text, what you load is put in the cache of your computer by your browser. This can cause problems because if you load files, chances are that you are going to update them quite often, but Flash will look for the files in the cache, that is to say the old ones.

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Communication between Flash Movies: Pop Ups
This tutorial shows you how to send information between different Flash Movies in different Windows (different web pages) such as: Pop Up Windows or other web pages. Theoretically there is no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie, and you can control a Flash Movie on another web page, from your main movie on your main page.

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Publishing a Flash Movie
There is no point in being able to create great Flash movies if you cannot Publish the movie to the web! This tutorial looks at the group of files that is created as Part of the Publishing process and goes through the steps that you need to know in order to get your Flash movie onto a web page or into other formats.

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Loading External Images Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array (list) of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader, so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.

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Loading External Images
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.

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Creating Transparent Flash Movies
Learn how to create transparent Flash Movies and how to change the background colour of a Flash Movie via the HTML. You can see that this page has a textured paper background effect. Any Flash Movie that I place on this page with the background set to transparent will also have the same paper background.

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Creating Transparent Flash Movies
Learn how to create transparent Flash Movies and how to change the background colour of a Flash Movie via the HTML. You can see that this page has a textured paper background effect. Any Flash Movie that I place on this page with the background set to transparent will also have the same paper background.

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Loading External Images Into Flash Using the Loader Component
This tutorial will teach you one of the easiest methods to load external SWF files and images into the Flash movie, we will use the ready-made Loader Component to load an external JPEG file into our movie at run time.

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Load/Unload Movie Action Flash tutorial
This action gives to the ability to load and unload .swf files when require, communication to a server script or to load variables from a text file.

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Movie and Image Preloader Woes
Yes, by now we should all know that Flash MX can load .jpg files dynamically into a flash movie aswell as being able to load external .swf files, but as always, when it comes to loading large files from external sources, it is good practice and almost standard to create a preloader for the file.

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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.

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Changing Colors in Movie Clips
Change movie clips color with actionscript.

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Using Flash And Java To Create Pop-Ups
With Flash it is quite common to have a customized pop up window to hold your flash movie. This is almost always done using HTML and JavaScript. Well, what about having buttons in your flash movies that will open customized pop up windows?In this tutorial I am going to show you how to incorporate Flash and Java to do the same effect from a Flash movie.

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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.

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Handwriting Flash Movie
This tutorial in Flash technology will show you how to create a Handwriting Flash Movie. The author uses fifteen easy to follow steps and lots of pictures and movies to show the way.

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How to convert video to flash and make a fun-to-watch flash movie
This guide will show how to edit and convert your favorite video clips into flash, and complete with special effects and movie templates; making the videos a complete, fun-to-watch flash movie.

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Using an array to keep track of movie clips
Learn how to attach movies from an array and check for collisions with the mouse. Some knowledge of actionscript is expected.

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How to use an external .swf as a library
I'm sure you already know that if you load an external .swf into your movie, you can then use actionscript in the main movie to attach movie clips in that movie's library IN THE LOADED LAYER ONLY.For instance, if I had a .swf called "myswf.swf" and it had a movie clip in it's library exported for actionscript and labeled "myMovie":

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Using the ScrollPane Component
This lesson will introduce you to incorporating the Flash MX ScrollPane component into your movies for the purpose of scrolling thumbnails to load external.swf movies.

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Hiding movie clips in Actionscript 3
In this tutorial you will learn how to hide movie clips in Actionscript 3.

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Load Movie Flash tutorial
In this toturial, you're going to learn how to load external swf files to your main swf and set a specific position for it.

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Loading variables from a text field and Editing/Updating the values via Perl
This tutorial basically shows you how to load variables into a Flash movie (Been there done that - what's new) In the same movie you can also edit those same variables and have them be displayed within the Flash movie immediately. By using a really simple Perl script you can update the variables with one simple button click. In this way you can have information passed to your movie dynamically and update that information at anytime.

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Loading External Images using Flash MX 2004 Components
This tutorial shows you how to load external images into Flash using an Array (list) and Flash MX 2004 Components. This means that the pictures are not loaded preloaded into Flash. Therefore the Flash Movie does not have to load all the pictures before you can start to view the first picture. If you preload all the images into FLash there can be a long wait before the user can view the first picture.

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How to Make an MP3, with a Flash Movie in it!
The tutorial on how to do Mp3's with flash movies in them.

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Optimising a Flash Movie
Want to create fast loading Flash movies. Essential skills for all Flash developers.In this tutorial I will look at those things which clog up a Flash file. Then I will look at what you can do to help create meaner and leaner files.

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Protect your work, remotely!
Many flash designers have experienced the nagging feeling of uncertainty that comes with delivering some or all of a site before payment. While in an ideal world everything is solidly locked in with contracts, often deals are made via word of mouth, or the work is for a "friend" or aquaintance who may deserve more trust or special treatment. There's times where a newer flash developer may come across a contract-shy small-time client offering flash work which is highly desirable for portfolio, money, or experience reasons. Whatever the reason, covering your back end isn't a bad thing to do; and despite your best attempts, may become necessary.This tutorial assumed you know how to make movie clips and buttons, have a fairly decent grasp of actionscript, and are familiar with loading movies.

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