Flash 8 Video Tutorials

FLASH VIDEO TUTORIAL – “Introduction to Building Games with Flash” Preview
In this flash 8 video tutorial, you will learn how to use Flash 8 to create your custom characters. Learn to use the line tool and the fill tool to easily design the Control and Hostile ships for this side scrolling game.

FLASH VIDEO TUTORIAL – TEXT FLASH
This Flash 8 video tutorial will help you create a catchy animation with text. This tutorial with teach you how to add a great effect using the glow filter within Flash 8.

FLASH VIDEO TIP – GLOWING TEXT
In this flash 8 tutorial, you will learn how to create a professional effect using very simple commands. Learn to create this effect using key-frames instead of action script. You will also learn how to break apart text so that we can edit and add effects.

FLASH VIDEO TIP – "Integrating Flash with XML" Preview
In this flash video tutorial video, you will learn how to add code to the 'next' and 'previous' buttons in order to cycle through the songs in your XML playlist. You will be shown how to automatically start playing the next song when the first song is finished playing.

FLASH 8 VIDEO TUTORIAL – Shining Text
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a looping text mask effect. This mask gives the effect of shining metal and is a great improvement to any banner or important text.

Earlier Flash 8 Video Tutorials
Rotating globe effect, animating filters, bounce animation, transparency, animating lines, rotating sunburst, text swipe, gyroscope, gradient fills, javascript, clouds, etc..

FLASH 8 VIDEO TUTORIAL – Lightning Effect
This is a great way to add some flavor to old photos or animations. A lot of Flash designers use this effect in many different ways and after this tutorial you will have a better understanding of how the Glow effect works.

FLASH VIDEO LESSON – ADDING GRAVITY
In this tutorial, we will discuss an effect that is overlooked a lot of the time, its called the ease effect. If you want your animation to stand out and have a better look and feel than the ease effect will help.

FLASH 8 VIDEO TIP – DIGITAL CLOCK
Add a sleek flash 8 element to your site and give your users a real-time digital clock to keep time. Design the clock using action script and import into your site as an .swf.

FLASH 8 Video Tip - PROPELLOR EFFECT
Creating a spinning animation is very simple in Actionscript, taking only a few lines of code. So since it is very simple, we will take this tutorial one step further and teach you how you can allow your users to control the spin and the direction of the spin using the arrow keys.

FLASH 8 VIDEO TIP - DYNAMIC LINES
In this flash 8 video tutorial, you will learn how to create two draggable circles that will always remain connected via a dynamic line that you will create in Actionscript. No matter where you move the circles, they will always be connected by the line.

Flash 8 VIDEO TIP - BUNGEE BALL
In this flash 8 tutorial, you will learn how to create a circle that the user can drag around the stage. But when the user releases his mouse, the circle will snap back to the center of the stage as though it were tied to a bungee cord.

Flash 8 VIDEO tutorial - NEW YEAR FIREWORKS
In this special New Year tutorial, you will learn how to play with fireworks without setting any grassfires, and you will do so by learning how to create a fireworks show from scratch in Flash Professional 8.

Flash 8 VIDEO TIP - FALLING FLAKES
After you have drawn your snowflake in Flash, this flash 8 video tip will teach you how to animate multiple instances of your snowflakes falling before your eyes. This flash 8 video tutorial uses the Math.random method in order to give your snowfall a more natural feel.

Flash 8 VIDEO tutorial - Create Shape Tweens
This flash 8 video tutorial is an excerpt from the brand new "Introduction to Flash 8" video series, and in this video tutorial, you will learn all about how to create flash 8 shape tween animations where one shape morphs into another shape.

Flash 8 VIDEO Tutorial - "INTRO TO FLASH 8" PREVIEW
The new "Introduction to Flash 8" video series will be released soon, and in this excerpt from the series, you will be shown how to use and customize panels and panel sets in Flash.

Flash 8 VIDEO tutorial - COUNTDOWN TIMER
In this flash 8 video tutorial, you can learn how to create a timer in Flash that will count down the time to a given date in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. This is a great flash 8 tool for counting down to holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

FLASH VIDEO tutorial - BEAM ME UP
In this flash 8 video tutorial, you will learn how to create an animation where you dematerialize an image into a bunch of small squares and then animate those squares off the stage.

FLASH 8 VIDEO TIP - SMOKED TURKEY
In tribute to Thanksgiving, we are going to devote this tutorial to smoking your own turkey in Flash. Using the blur filter, you can find out how to create plumes of fragrant smoke rising off of your perfectly-cooked turkey. Yum!

FLASH 8 VIDEO TUTORIAL - CREATING A MAP WITH SELECTABLE REGIONS
This Flash 8 Video tutorial simply requires a little bit of tracing work and some Flash 8 ActionScript. With this Flash 8 video tutorial , you will learn how to create a map with regions that are highlighted as you hover over them.

NEW flash 8 VIDEO TIP - SMOKY TEXT FADE
In this flash 8 video tutorial, you can learn how to create a transition effect where one piece of text fades away in a puff of smoke while another piece of text fades in in its place.

Flash 8 VIDEO tutorial - HOVER BUTTON EFFECT
In this flash 8 Video tutorial, you will learn how to make a picture button with text at the bottom. When you hover over the button, the text and its semi-transparent background, will scroll up, revealing a more detailed description of the button.

FLASH 8 video tutorial - SYMMETRICAL ROUND OBJECTS
Did you ever want to create a symmetrical round object, like a gear or a flower, in Flash? In this Flash 8 video tutorial, you will be shown how to use the free transform tool and the transform panel to create that perfectly symmetrical object. In particular, this Flash 8 video tutorial will show you how to illustrate the cross section of an orange.

Fixing Unruly Shape Tweens in Flash 8
Sometimes complex shape tweens can become a little out of control, even when we add all the shape hints we can think to add. In fact, sometimes the shape hints only serve to make things worse. In this flash 8 tutorial, you will learn a quick cheat that might fix some of the less desirable shape tween effects that might pop up.

Cursor Replacement and Blending Modes in Flash 8
You are going to need Flash Professional 8 for this tutorial. In this video, you will learn how to use Flash 8's blending modes to create a circle that follows the cursor around on the stage, inverting the colors of the image in the layer below the circle.

Flash 8 Resources

Macromedia Flash 8: A Tutorial Guide - by Jay Armstrong, Jen deHaan. Navigate the Flash workspace and use common document types. Use the Flash drawing tools and create engaging graphic effects. Use ActionScript to add interactivity and custom functionality to your documents. Connect your Flash projects to external data sources to create data-driven applications.

Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Hands-On Training - Start creating Flash animations and interactive files with little effort. You’ll learn to create vector animations using a wide variety of drawing tools and Timeline effects, and add interactivity and dynamic content to your projects by using ActionScript 2, Components.

Even more flash 8 video tutorials
- Animating text blur, Introduction to animating with flash, Cartooning in Flash 8.

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