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

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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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Using variables to control movie clips
This is a great way to control multiple movie clips and multiple buttons without pulling your hair out.

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Fading objects with actionscript code
While working with movie clips on stage, we you might want to fade the movie clip in or out instead of toggling its _visible property. There are two procedures to animate a movie clip

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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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Movie Clip Movement with Keys
A tutorial showing you how to move movie clips with key presses.

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Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shockwave 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. To do this we need to look at the following ActionScript keywords.

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Duplicate/Remove Movie Clip Action
This action allows for the duplication and removal of movie clips at run time.

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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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Changing the Color of A Movie Clip
Using the color object in Flash 5 you can change the color of your movie clips.

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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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Loading external swfs in the right position
This is a simple tutorial answering a simple question: How can I place a loaded movie in the position I want? It's about the loadMovie action. The loadMovie loads external swfs in movie clips of our movie.

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Dynamic tweening with the Tween and Easing classes
You are probably very familiar with the tweening that can be assigned to a movie clip at authoring time (fig1) but did you know that you could apply tweening to movie clips with easing effects just with code ?

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Animating Filters with ActionScript
Learn how to animate filters with ActionScript. This can be added to a variety of objects in Flash including Movie Clips, Buttons & Text. In this example I will place a photo in a Movie Clip and animate a Glow Filter.

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Scrolling A Movie 2: Throw Effect
First, this is a continuation of the last tutorial I made. The last tutorial dealt with the basic scrolling script. In that tutorial I went over how to setup the movie clips for this tutorial. Check it out before looking at this tutorial.

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Mass Collision Detection
The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate an efficient way to detect collisions between multiple instances two movie clips.When you're finished with this tutorial you will understand an efficient method for detecting collisions between multiple instances of one movie clip and multiple instances of another movie clip, and be able to apply that knowledge.

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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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Space Shooter - Movie Clip and Movement
Part 1/5. Series of tutorials on how to develop Space Shooter game. In this part we are going to learn the basics of Movie Clips and character movement.

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Working with 9-slice scaling
You can use 9-slice scaling to specify component-style scaling for movie clips. 9-slice scaling lets you create movie clip symbols that scale appropriately for use as user interface components, as opposed to the type of scaling typically applied to graphics and design elements.

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Drag 'n' Drop IQ Test
A key interactive feature that you can use is the ability to drag'n'drop movie clips. Learn the secret here!

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Basic Game Help
Covers a basic use of variables and movie clips with hit detection.

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Basic 4 Sided Collision Detection
How to detect the collision between two movie clips.

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Tell Target Action
This is an action you must learn in order to enable communication from the current timeline to other timelines (movie clips).

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Moving Solar Boxes
This tutorial uses action scripting (Loops and Duplicating Movie Clips) to create mouseover effects while keeping the file size to a bare minimum

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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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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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Starfield Simulation effect using duplicateMovieClip
The shots from a machine gun, the fire flares from a space ship tail, the water droplets from a fountain, all represent Movie Clips when created on a Flash timeline.

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Creating a Sliding MC
This should be your final outcome. Click on the buttons and see the images slide. You can slide anything.....images, text, or even other movie clips.

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Basic Tweening using AS
A very basic (but sometimes useful) AS library for animating movie clips. Use it and adjust it so that you avoid timeline tweening and equalize your motion animation.

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Glow Filter with ActionScript
The Glow Filter lets you add a glowing luminance effect to Movie Clips, Buttons & Text.

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Atomic Animation
Learn sophisticated animation techniques including how to duplicate Movie Clips such that you can create realistic animated trails that diminish in size and fade away as the electron revolves about an atom's nucleus.

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Creating Filters with ActionScript
A detailed look at how to apply Filters to Text, Movie Clips and Buttons with ActionScript.

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Attaching Movie Clips using ActionScript
The first thing to understand about this process is that you need to store all of your site's resources in one main folder on your hard drive and identify it in Dreamweaver to ensure that the links you set on your computer will work when your site is uploaded to a server.

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Animation - Lithium Atom
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create an animation which uses Masks to make objects disappear behind other objects and how to attach Movie Clips to Motion Guides.

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Guided motion tween animation - create an air chase!
With this lesson, you are going to learn how to make a motion guide that two movie clips will follow, one after another. This is one of the basic animation techniques in Flash.

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Work with Objects and Classes
Classes are the blueprint for objects in Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8. All objects in Flash have an underlying class; for example, all movie clips have a method called getURL(), and getURL() is defined in the class definition for a movie clip. Flash contains many predefined classes, such as the MovieClip class, the Array class, the Color class, and the CheckBox class. This tutorial will show you how to create and modify classes.

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Text Zoom Effect
This is one of the most basic ,still a cool, effect one can make in Flash.Working with Alpha settings,Working with movie clips,Basic tweening.

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Moving Movie Clips with the Arrow Keys Tutorial
In this tutorial I will teach you how to move a MovieClip around the stage with the arrow keys using actionscript.

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