Flash Professional tutorials and articles
Pixel Bender basics for Flash
Joe Ward (Oct 14, 2008)
Get an overview of the new high-performance graphics programming language, and learn how to apply filters, blends, and area fills to any display object, including images and vector graphics.
Generating sounds dynamically in Flash Player 10
Jeff Swartz (Oct 14, 2008)
Learn about the use of dynamically generated sounds in Flash Player 10, and how to use the new Sound.extract() method and sampleDataEvent event.
Embedding fonts
Peter deHaan (Oct 01, 2008)
Learn the most popular and useful ways to embed fonts in a Flash CS4 application, including setting Font symbol properties, setting linkage properties for a Font symbol, creating a new Font symbol instance using ActionScript, and more.
Saving Flash graphics as image files at runtime
Clive Goodinson (Sep 29, 2008)
Learn how to programmatically generate static image files using the graphic content in a Flash project.
Preloading in ActionScript 3
Lee Brimelow (Sep 15, 2008)
Learn the cleanest, most reliable method of preloading your ActionScript 3 movies, which takes a lot of the guesswork out, so you can focus more time on actually creating your movie, rather than worrying how it will preload. (14:25)
Creating your first ActionScript 3 class
Dan Carr (Sep 08, 2008)
Learn how to create a "hello world" class and assign it to the main Timeline of a Flash file.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 4: Events
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Add interactivity to the MenuBar component by adding event handlers to control drop-down menu functionality.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 6: Invalidation model
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Improve performance by controlling when a component's appearance is redrawn using ActionScript 3.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 8: Keyboard support
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Learn how to allow users to navigate through selectable items in components using keyboard commands.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 9: Shim compiled clip
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Learn how to optimize and prepare your components for distribution without distributing the source code.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 3: From prototype to component
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Convert the prototype project into a MenuBar component.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 2: MenuBar component prototype
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Create the MenuBar component functionality and build the ActionScript 3 class.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 7: Focus management
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Use ActionScript 3 and FocusManager to control how focus events are handled for display objects.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 5: Styles and skins
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Customize the look and feel of ActionScript 3 components to fit the design of your projects.
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in Flash – Part 1: Introducing components
Jeff Kamerer (Jun 09, 2008)
Get an overview of Flash components, including how they are structured and how they can be deployed to the Components panel.
Troubleshooting Flash video encoding and deployment
Robert Reinhardt (Apr 21, 2008)
Get answers to common issues you may encounter while working with Flash video.
Creating liquid GUIs with Flash and ActionScript 3.0
James O'Reilly (Apr 21, 2008)
Build dynamic RIA user interfaces that size themselves intelligently to the screen's dimensions.
Delivering a reliable Flash video experience
Robert Reinhardt (Apr 21, 2008)
Plan and execute a web-based video by encoding an optimized media file, developing a player, and customizing the playback experience with HTML and JavaScript.
Exploring the Flash video templates and tutorials
Adobe (Mar 17, 2008)
If you are new to Flash templates, read up on how to use these to power your own video projects.
Flash video template: Video presentation with navigation
Dan Carr (Mar 17, 2008)
Customize this Flash template to play your own video content based on user interaction.
