Category Archives: Software

Flash Video Encoder

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

One powerful tool for working with video in Flash is the Flash Video Encoder. Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder is a stand-alone video encoding application that lets you encode video in Adobe Flash video (FLV) format. (…) You can batch-process … Continue reading →

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Flash books

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Recommended books for Flash and ActionScript: Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source by Derek Franklin, Jobe Maker, Erik Bianchi Macromedia Publishing (let’s hope the Adobe CS3 version comes out soon) Flash CS3 Professional Advanced: Visual Quickpro Guide by … Continue reading →

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Flash Security

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

About the security panel in Flash: Global Security Settings panel Global security settings for content creators

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Flash and Mobile Devices

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Here is a list of links on the Adobe website about Flash and mobile devices: Flash lite product page: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/ Mobile page: http://www.adobe.com/mobile/ Mobile and devices development center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/ Flash lite development center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/flashlite.html Flash lite documentation: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashlite/

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Flash and RSS

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Nuno Correia

A tutorial for creating a blog reader (from an RSS feed) in Flash (using XML): http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/rssReader01.html

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Flash and PHP

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Here is a link to Adobe Flash Developer Center’s PHP Page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/php.html And a link to an important PHP resource: http://www.php.net/

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XML links

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Some useful links about XML: Wikipedia XML page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML W3C XML page: http://www.w3.org/XML/ O´Reilly´s XML page: http://www.xml.com/ XML-related portal: http://www.xml.org/

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Sound in Flash CS3

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

The sound implementation in Flash has been greatly improved with Flash CS3: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000283.html Here is a great example of a simple sound visualizer: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000296.html Note the following limitations: Because sound data from a microphone or from RTMP streams do not … Continue reading →

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Flash Video

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Some useful links about video in Flash: Adobe Flash Video developer center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/video.html Article on video encoding: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/encoding_video.html Article on selecting a video encoder: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/selecting_video_encoder.html Article on using the Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/video_encoder/

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Adobe Flash documentation page – recommended

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Here is a great link to several (very useful) Flash PDFs and live docs: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/

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