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EBooks » Flash
Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX is the easiest way to create rich communication applications in Macromedia Flash MX. Lets two or more people participate in a real-time conversation using text, audio, or video. For example, you can use Flash Communication Server for meetings, online communities, customer support, sales support, training, remote presence, or instant messaging. A platform for streaming live data across networks for delivery to the Internet, PDAs, interactive TV, and more, and it is part of Macromedia's complete solution for database connectivity, directory systems, and presence services. It can also be used for personal projects such as a house intercom, a pet camera, or video publishing.  If you've ever used traditional screen recording software to create
product demonstrations or created custom simulations on your own, you
know what an enormous task it can become. Not so with Macromedia's
recently renamed and enhanced software, Macromedia Captivate (formerly
RoboDemo). By capturing your actions as you use a program, Captivate
eliminates the need to create custom graphics for each step--which in
turns means no massive video files at the end of the project.
Macromedia Captivate automatically records all onscreen actions and
instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to
add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without any
programming knowledge. Veteran author Tom Green understands that this
is big news for anyone creating online training, product demos,
e-learning applications or user support systems--which is why in these
pages he provides a super-quick start for a super-quick tool! After
introducing you to the Captivate work environment, Tom uses simple
task-based instructions and loads of visual aids to help you progress
through chapters on creating and modifying Captivate simulations; using
frames; adding objects, captions, audio, interactivity, and rich media;
using PowerPoint with Captivate; integrating Captivate with Macromedia
Breeze; Captivate and Flash; and more. Server-Side Flash™S cripts, Databases, and
Dynamic Development If you're a Flash developer, how do you learn to
work with ASP, PHP, SQL, XML, and the rest of the server-side alphabet
soup? This unique, results-oriented book provides the answers,
delivering crystal-clear tutorials on today's most popular technologies
for dynamic Web pages. William B. Sanders and Mark Winstanley show you
step by step how to construct real-world interactive Flash applications
to make your movies and animations truly dynamic. Case-study examples
and 30 days of free Web hosting provide everything you need to take a
walk on the server side.*Start developing dynamic Flash
applications*Get up to speed on URL encoding and basic server
integration*Use Flash with CGI/Perl to set cookies and send e-mail*Link
Flash to Access databases through ASP (Active Server Pages)*Create
Flash pages that launch PHP scripts to write to and read from MySQL
databases*Use Flash to extract and display data from XML
documents*Discover the secrets of printing directly from Flash*Format
Flash data to create Generator objects*Harness the interactive power of
the Generator Server*Unleash new ActionScript functions to build Flash
gaming applications*Set up a Flash front end and back end for an
eBusiness siteFor Both Macintosh & Windows This book will teach Flash designers how to create ActionScripts that
they'll refer to again and again in their design work. Projects such as
Creating a Pop-Up Menu, Creating a Sound Controller, or Creating an
Animated Flash Banner can be used as the starting point for readers'
own customized projects. All of this is presented with lots of visual
examples and a minimum of jargon and "programmer-speak." 
Macromedia Flash is now the standard for Web animation. But as more and
more animators are discovering, you can also use Flash to produce
animations for television–efficiently, inexpensively, and without
compromising quality. Cowritten by the Flash animator who helped to
create the FishBar series that appeared on MTV, this unique guide shows
you step by step how to get broadcast-quality results with Flash,
whether you’re a Flash veteran who wants to move into TV or a
traditional animator who wants to explore the possibilities of Flash.
From broadcast production basics to sound, applied animation
techniques, video exporting, and postproduction effects, this book
delivers all the know-how you need to get your Flash animations on
TV–including behind-the-scenes interviews with creative professionals
working at today’s hottest animation studios. |
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