Flash 8 Tutorials

Flash 8 Filters - Drop Shadow, blur, Bevel, Adjust Color , etc.

Flash 8 Components - How to create and program a very basic component in flash.

Creating a Flash 8 CD-ROM - how to plan and organise your multimedia cd-rom.

Flash 8 Drop Down Menu - a dropdown menu that goes to another frame to display the submenu items.

Flash 8 Bouncing Ball - Using the Tween and easing classes to animate a bouncing ball via actionscript. This is a text explanation for the Flash 8 Video Tutorial that you will find below(Creating a Bounce Animation).

Flash 8 Create a Button - This tutorial has a video component as well as a description of how to create a simple button.

More Flash 8 Video Tutorials
Gravity, propeller, lines, bungee ball, shape tween, countdown timer, smoke, text fade, hover button, blend mode, etc...

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Flash 8 2D Animation #1 - How the professionals do head animation - lip sync and face acting. This is video #1 in a series of 6 about using Flash 8 in professional animations in TV.

Flash 8 2D Animation #2 - How the professionals do body animation . This is video #2 in a series of 6 about using Flash 8 in professional animations in TV.

Flash 8 2D Animation #3 - Opening credits for the TV show Odd Job Jack . This is video #3 in a series of 6 about using Flash 8 in professional animations in TV.

Flash 8 2D Animation #4 - A complete episode of the TV show Odd Job Jack . Video #4 of 6 about using Flash 8 in professional animations in TV.

Flash 8 2D Animation #5 - Rehearsal of the TV show Odd Job Jack . Video #5 of 6 about using Flash 8 in professional animations in TV.

Flash 8 2D Animation #6 - Animatics for the TV show Odd Job Jack . Video #6 of 6 about using Flash 8 in professional animations in TV.

Flash 8 flv player - Play external flv video files using NetConnection and NetStream objects.

xml playlist for Flash 8 flv player - Play external flv video files from an xml playlist using NetConnection and NetStream objects.

Creating a BevelFilter - Using actionscript to apply a bevel filter to a movieclip and some other filters.

Flash 8 Website - Using loadMovie to make a flash 8 website.

Flash 8 mp3 player - Using an xml file to hold the playlist - basic.

Flash 8 Tree Component - Loaded by an xml file as dataProvider.

Flash 8 load HTML - How to load external html into flash using LoadVars.

Flash 8 sound - How to use sound, audio and music in Flash 8.

Scollbar Component in Flash 8 - How to use the scrollbar component with a textbox in Flash 8.

Flash 8 keycodes - How to create a keylistener using ascii keycodes when a key is pressed in Flash 8.

Flash 8 Fade MovieClip - How to make a basic fade in for a MovieClip in flash 8 using simple tween.

Flash 8 Drag and Drop - Update to the old Flash MX version.

Flash 8 Control MovieClip - Control a MovieClip playhead using buttons.

New Flash Tutorials on Video Available

I have for your viewing pleasure the latest and best free Flash 8 video tutorials. They are first rate and it is a very informative and efficient way of learning flash by watching a video tutorial. You will be lead through all the steps and shown exactly how to get your work done. Look below at some of the brilliant free flash 8 video tutorials I have secured for you.

Rotating Globe Effect in Flash 8
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.

Animating Filters in Flash Pro 8
You can motion tween a lot of things in Flash - position, transparency, color, etc. But did you know you could ALSO tween a filter in Flash Professional 8? In this video, will be shown how!

Creating a Bounce Animation with ActionScript
Creating a bouncing ball animation can be a little tedious if you usually do it in Flash 8. In this video tutorial, you will be shown how to create a bounce animation with only a few lines of ActionScript by calling on the Tween class and the Bounce class.

Continuous Animation
In this flash video tutorial, you will learn how to set up a looping animation that does not seem like it is looping. It will look like a continuous stream flowing through a pipe.

Flash 8 Semitransparent Buttons Tutorial
In this beginner-level flash 8 tutorial, you will learn how to create a very simple and yet elegant button symbol with a semi-transparent background that loses its transparency on rollOver.

Animating Lines in Flash 8
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to animate a series of lines to make it look like they're drawing themselves onto the stage. This is done using a simple mask.

Flash 8 Symbol Instances
How do you alter the label on one instance of a button without having the labels of the other instances of the same button change along with it? In this video, you will learn an important distinction between the way symbols work and the way symbol instances work.

Flash 8 - Rotating Sunburst Effect
In this basic tutorial, you will learn how to highlight your logo by putting a rotating sunburst effect behind it. You'll also learn an important lesson about reusing graphic elements whenever possible.

Text Swipe Effect in Flash 8
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animated text swipe effect, where the text is quickly and smoothly revealed from left to right. Text effects like this can be a little tedious to achieve, but the end result is usually well worth the effort.

Creating a Gyroscope Animation in Flash 8
Creating a spinning ring is as easy as flipping it over and tweening it. In this video, you'll learn how to create a gyroscope effect using multiple instances of this simple technique.

Flash 8 - Text Gradient Fills
Unfortunately, applying a gradient fill to text in Flash isn't as easy as selecting the text field and then choosing a linear gradient from the Color Mixer panel. So in this video, you will learn two different methods to achieve this effect.

Flash 8 - Problems with Rotating Animations
Creating an animation of an object rotating is very easy to do, whether you do it with tweens or in Actionscript. Unfortunately, sometimes the rotations don't occur exactly how you would want them to, because by default, the anchor for the rotation is the center point of the object being rotated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.

JavaScript Popup Windows
Unfortunately, there's no way to create a customizable popup window using only Flash. But the good news is that with a little help from JavaScript, you can create popup windows with no scrollbars, no toolbars, no menubars, and you can even specify the size of the popup window. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do just that.

Creating and Animating Clouds
One of the most popular features of Flash Professional 8 is the new "Filters" feature, which lets you add blurs, drop shadows, glows, and other filters to your objects. In today's tip, you'll learn how to use the "blur" filter to create some very realistic clouds, and then you'll learn how to animate those clouds in Flash. Unfortunately, if you don't have Flash Professional 8, you'll just have to sit back and watch.

Flash - common mistakes with actions and buttons
There are two ways to add actions to a button in Flash. You can add the actions to the button itself or you can refer to the button when adding actions to a frame. Unfortunately, the actions you add will be a little different depending on which method you choose. Because of this difference, the ActionScript involved can be a little confusing to beginners. In this video, we'll clear up all the confusion and fix some common mistakes that are made in the process.

Flash conditionals and toggle switches
A conditional is a way of executing a piece of code only if the circumstances are right. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the if() statement to control a toggle switch in Flash.

Flash - ComboBox Interactivity
In Flash, the ComboBox component is basically nothing more than your basic dropdown list that you see in forms on the Internet. In this video, you'll learn how to use this component to communicate with another movie clip on the stage.

Animation Setup
Animation can be a tricky process if you've never done it before, but Flash makes it possible to reuse pieces of your animation so you don't have to continually redraw everything. In this tutorial, you'll learn some basics for drawing and preparing your drawings for animation in Flash.

Flash 8 Tutorial - Simple Page Transitions
This tutorial is an excerpt for an upcoming training series, to be released by LearnFlash.com on March 31. In this excerpt, you'll learn how to create simple animated transitions for your Flash website.

Creating Movie Clip Buttons
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create animated buttons by storing your button as a movie clip symbol instead of a button symbol. Movie clip symbols will give you much more flexibility.
Running time: 21:31

Animating With Actionscript
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a simple animation using ActionScript instead of motion tweens.
Running time: 11:01

Falling Text Effect
In this video, you'll learn how to create a really sharp animation effect by animating the letters of a block of text onto the stage separately.
Running time: 8:08

Smoke Effect
Learn how to create a really cool smoke effect using Flash Professional 8's new filters!
Running time: 15:20

Flashing Face Effect
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to highlight a picture on the stage by causing it to flash a couple times.
Running time: 13:39