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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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.

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.

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.

Importing MOV Files Into Flash
The object of this tutorial is to demonstrate how Quicktime MOV files can be used in flash movies. There seems to be some confusion about this but let me start by saying that the flash player cannot actually play any type of digital video. This confusion is fueled by the ability of flash to import MOV files and to export it's movies in MOV or AVI format.

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.

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.

Sound
Adding sound to flash movies is a fun way to make your movies more interactive and dynamic. Adding sound in flash seemed a daunting task to me at first, however it is surprisingly easy! Hopefully this tutorial will help you out in your future flash endeavors. Just a quick note - you will need to have a music loop or music file of some kind handy to complete this tutorial, preferably an .mp3 file.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blur Effect
This is a simple tutorial which will teach you how to create a blurred image animation in Flash, though originally intended for the pre-Flash Filters era, this technique is still valid and is the only method for creating a blur animation for making FlashLite movies and movies to be played on older versions of the Flash player such as the the one running on the Sony PSP. Our technique here does not require any ActionScript knowledge, but will require using an external image editor for creating a blurred version of the image that we are intending to use.

Preloading in Macromedia Flash MX2004
Create a preloader for your movies or flash animations.

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.

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

How to make date & time appear in Flash MX!
This tutorial will explain how to add the time & date in Flash MX.

HOW TO Intercommunication between two separate SWF files.
This tutorial will work ONLY with movies exported in Flash 6 or bigger. This means it works only in Flash MX.

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.

Preloading External Jpegs or SWFs into Flash
If you wish to preload Jpeg images or Flash Movies which are stored outside the Flash file use this preloader tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to use the Flash MX04 Loader Component to preload and place external files into your Flash Movie. The tutorial also shows you how to use the progressBar component.

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.

Importing Images and Movies into Flash
Quite often you need to import a sequence of images into Flash. They can be imported from any editor, and be either 3D or 2D style, or simply a set of pictures which you want to insert frame-by-frame into Flash.

Importing Images and Movies into Flash (Exclusive Tutorial)
Quite often you need to import a sequence of images into Flash. They can be imported from any editor, and be either 3D or 2D style, or simply a set of pictures which you want to insert frame-by-frame into Flash.

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.

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.

AS3: Creating a Flash Preloader
This tutorial will teach you how to create a very simple preloader for your Flash movies using ActionScript 3.0.

Fireworks Button Creation to Flash
Learn to build great looking buttons in Fireworks for your Flash movies.

More Scrolling Function in Flash 5
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Sound
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Flash Login (secured)
The common flash login tutorials/movies are most of the times not safe... this one is!

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.

Making Professional Graphics For Your Flash Movies
What is the difference between your regular ole Flash site and a professional one? Well, it largely comes down to opinion, but there are also some key elements to look at. I've learned after viewing Flash sites for years that the ones that catch readers' attention more than anything are the ones with great graphics. Yes, graphics and design, NOT programming.

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.

Communicating between SWFs with the localConnection class
The localConnection class is not used a lot because a lot of Flash developers are not just aware of its existence. That class lets you communicate between 2 or more SWFs running on the same machine. This can be useful to develop complex interactivities between multiple movies running in the browser or even between a projector and movies running in a browser.

Playing Background Loops Continuosly Across Scenes
This tutorial is designed for newbie and intermediate Flashers. You'll need a basic understanding of Flash to complete this tutorial such as the tools palette, creating buttons, assigning actions to buttons & keyframes, and importing & exporting files.

Embedding Flash SWF files in Visual Basic
For making our VB projects more attracitve we embed our flash made Movies into our VB files. Lets make a simple example have simple animations.

Making Flash Movies Transparent
How to make a Flash movie transparent on a HTML background, I decided to show everyone how to make it themselves.

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