This book is named 50 Fast Flash MX Techniques—it presents 50 relatively simple, exciting Flash MX techniques that you can do quickly. Some of these techniques may take15 to 30 minutes, but many take far less time. They are also easy because all of components are provided for you. You can copy them or add your own art.

This book is for anyone who wants to add some great techniques to a Web site in Flash but doesn’t have the time to study Flash in-depth. Although many of the techniques involve considerable programming in ActionScript, Flash’s programming language, you do not need to be a programmer to use the techniques. We have provided

ActionScript for you, and you can easily copy and paste it into your own movies.

Total Training for Macromedia Flash Professional 8
Hosted by John Ulliman

This training series produced in HD includes over 24 hours of indexed tutorials on the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive web sites. You will dramatically expand your knowledge of Flash and its extensive capabilities.

Highlights:
* Gain a comprehensive look at the most useful tools and features of Flash Professional 8.
* Learn inside tips for how to create better designs and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation.
* Polish your skills with tutorials that will help you generate truly unique web sites and presentations.

Bonus Material:
Enjoy a free stock footage clip courtesy of Post Holes, a stock media development company that produces royalty-free, stock footage clips that are pre-matted, ready-to-use in video graphics software or non-linear editing applications.

To access the Bonus Material, click on the Bonus button in the top ight corner of the Interface screen and sign up using a throw-away e-mail address. Do not ask for Bonus codes - sign up for them yourself!

DVD 1:
Part 1 - Graphics in Flash
01. A Quick Flash Demo (48 min)
02. Meet Flash: Fundamentals (37 min)
03. Drawing with Vectors (28 min)
04. Flash Natural Drawing Tools (45 min)
05. Advanced Vector Drawing (54 min)
06. Setting Colors in Flash (44 min)
07. Bitmaps in Flash (51 min)
08. Using Text in Flash (55 min)
09. Symbols (41 min)
10. Symbol Effects: Filters & Blends (65 min)

DVD 2:
Part 2 - Animation in Flash
01. Introduction to the Timeline (55 min)
02. Shape Tweening (70 min)
03. Motion Tweening (64 min)
04. Advanced Animation Techniques (59 min)
05. Simulating Speed in your Animations (62 min)
06. Nesting Symbols for Complex Animation (61 min)
07. Animated Masks & Filters (54 min)
08. Sound & Video (85 min)

DVD 3:
Part 3 - Making Interactive Movies with Flash
01. Flash Buttons (54 min)
02. Scripting Basics (51 min)
03. Basic Navigation Systems (64 min)
04. Flash Screens (61 min)
05. Advanced Navigation Systems (69 min)
06. Data Entry Forms & Components (74 min)
07. Publishing your Movies (46 min)
08. Developing for Mobile & PDA (25 min)

Compressed Size. : 6.39 GIG
Uncompressed Size : DVD 1: 3.94 GIG, DVD 2: 3.94 GIG, DVD 3: 3.86 GIG
Format ......... : RAR / ISO

Written by two internationally acclaimed animators, this classic text teaches you all you need to know about the art of timing and its importance in the animated film. Learn all the tips and tricks of the trade from the professionals. How should the drawings be arranged in relation to each other? How many are needed? How much space should be left between one group of drawings and the next? How long should each drawing, or group of drawings, remain on the screen to give the maximum dramatic effect? The art of timing is vital.
Timing for Animation not only offers invaluable help to those who are learning the basis of animation technique, but is also a vital reference for every animation studio and working animator.

This great guide uses the VISUAL approach to cover features of ActionScript. Take in all the information in two-page spreads, so there is no flipping back and forth between topics. This book was created for the professional, advanced level visual learner. Flash™ ActionScript: Your visual blueprint for creating Flash™-enhanced Web sites covers how ActionScript works with Flash, actions, objects, properties and functions, operators and variables, Flash movies, and program debugging.

As any Flash developer worth his or her salt knows, you’re not tapping all of the program’s power unless you’re taking advantage of its scripting language. Not to worry: With Flash 8’s improved scripting language (which includes a visual interface!) and this project-based guide you don’t have to be a master programmer to do so. In these pages best-selling authors Derek Franklin and Jobe Makar with Danny Patterson, Member of Team Macromedia Flash, use hands-on lessons and simple, step-by-step instructions to translate real-life activities into scripts, in the process demonstrating that scripting is something you already instinctively know how to do. To that end, the authors have provided methodologies and techniques for building nearly 40 real-life Flash 8 ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more—all of which will help you work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD contains all of the project files and images you’ll need to complete the book’s lessons.