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Flex 2 is here supporting a brand new version of ActionScript, ActionScript 3. Flash, however, is still a long ways off. Would you like to learn ActionScript 3 without learning Flex? Learn how to for free (without Flex Builder) in this tutorial.

With Flash CS3 comes support for ActionScript 3.0 - the newest, standards-based programming language for Adobe Flash (SWF) movies and applications. More so than in the past, you may find it difficult to get started with ActionScript 3.0 when compared to older versions of ActionScript.

Add as many images as you need for your sideshow, create a transition effect and publish it. Great way for Flash sideshow tutorial.

Unfortunately, Flash does not have any functionality for creating true 3D animations by itself, but if you know a few tricks, sometimes you can fake it. In this flash video tutorial, you will learn how to create a fake 3D rotating globe effect in Flash.

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.

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.

Recently FLV video format is the preferred and most popular video format for web video delivering. You may find videos with different contents on these video sharing sites with ease. It's a pity that you can only enjoy these flash videos when you log on Internet. However, you can enjoy them offline now! This tutorial takes iFilm.com as an example and introduces you how to download flv and enjoy it offline.

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The Flash-XML FAQ aims to provide a definitive source for common questions about Flash and its interaction with XML (and XML datasources).

Starting with MX2004, Macromedia gave developers access to the Tween class. This class allows you to use bits and pieces of the Flash tweening features directly using ActionScript. This tutorial will (hopefully) teach you how to use the Tween class to create various motion effects by deconstructing a simple example.

Why can't I mask dynamic text or device fonts yell's the inspiring flash developer! It makes no sense! I can mask static text, why not dynamic text or device fonts? Well Macromedia has a somewhat of an explanation here, but I'm going to try and explain this the best I can.

If you've got an amazing Flash game which is extremely funny, complicated, or tricky, and you can play it well, don't you want to show it to your friends? or show other people how good you can play on Web, like your video blog? But how can you record the Flash game to a video while you are playing it? Here in this guide, I'll introduce a simple software which can be very helpful on the recording, and tell you how to convert the Flash game (SWF) to video step by step.

This tutorial will tell you how to capture YouTube video fast using Web Video Downloader in Firefox browser.

Flash MX added true video support and now Flash MX 2004 adds several video enhancements. The most dramatic visual improvement is how the Flash player 7 can now maintain a higher video frame rate. In fact, it's even possible to play videos at a higher frame rate than your Flash document's frame rate. Performance improvements, however, are really just icing on the cake--you just accept the enhancements and enjoy it.

See the tricks behind the advanced Flash animation that was used to bring a futuristic cityscape to life.