I am using Macromedia Flash MX 2004. I have imported a video clip by using file>import to stage. This works fine but I can not figure out how to control the clip. I want to add a play and stop button to control it but I cannot figure it out. Any help? ...more >>

Hey Im having a problem trying to play masks on my flash player. it works in flash mx 8 on the screen by pressing enter to play but not in the flash player. Can anybody please help me. I have flash player 8. ...more >>

I'm designing a site at 60fps and it looks great in Flash but when I publish it to the web is runs much slower. I cranked the fps up to 70fps and it seems to play at the same speed but is still a little jittery. Does anyone know a good rule of them when speeding up your animation for the bro...more >>

I have a problem with movieclips which use dynamic text (for scrollable text or text defined by actionscript) in that the text does not display in the parent movie. Any ideas? ...more >>

:confused; When I try to copy an asset from one project to another, the asset is replaced by an already existing asset in the project. For example. Say in Project1 I have Assets A and B. In Project 2 I have Asset C. When I try to copy asset C to Project1's stage I see asset A or B. It is n...more >>

In your Publish Settings, try clicking on the set button next to audio stream and upping the bit rate and quality....more >>

I'm looking for some actionscript to fade audio in and out. I have a music track identified and linked from my library in the first frame of my flash piece. When a button is pressed, another scene plays with a video and seperate voice track. The voice track is on a seperate timeline and set...more >>

i have made a person but i am confuzed on how to make him move and that sort of thing so i can make a movie. :(...more >>

How do you apply a dissolve to an image in Flash MX version 6?? Thanxs in advance! :) -Liz...more >>

I have a 2.5MB .FLA Project (creates a 127KB .SWF) and the project in flash is moving VERY slow. NO Video, 2 small audio clips. I am running Flash8 Pro on an AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz with 512 RAM What am I doing Wrong? ...more >>

i essenitally want text to fade in, so I Was going to do a tween. The first frame the text would be at 100% transperancy, and the last frame it would show. How do I do that in MX 2004?...more >>

:disgust; :confused; Hi: I'm working on a 3MB Flash file which is a simulation. Everything works fine until I try to preview or publish. All of a sudden it consumes 272MB of RAM. Finally, it does publish. Our Tech Guy says "something is wrong with the FLA file". However, I can't...more >>

I came across this site http://www.essenceoflifevideo.com/memorial/index.html On the Demo video on the left, it starts with photos coming out and looking 3d and rotated and pulling towards the viewer. I would like to know if its possible to do a similar effect within flash/photoshop. ...more >>

I'm using Flash Professional. Even if I have embedded all the characters sets (including all the five additional Latin sets) suitable for rendering accented characters in Dynamic Fields which receive variables from a MySQL Database, these characters like eacute, agrave, etc do not appear. ...more >>

Wanted to get some advice on building a good flash site. The design has elaborate transitions between pages. Because of this I was thinking that it should be one big Flash file vs. smaller sectional Flash files with loading bars. But by having one big flash file, the user cannot bookmark s...more >>

Hello Everyone, as you know with os x tiger you can do a search method where you can search directly in a text file (a word document or a pdf document) i think it's the same on windows xp. My question, i would like to put a 150 pages magazine on line with Flash. There will have buttons to...more >>

I'm having a browser problem with any flash I use on my site. Nothing works with Mozilla. What do I need to do to fix this? http://www.rhinosafe.com/index.htm Please don't laugh at my beginner's flash. =) ...more >>

Hi all, hope someone can help with this. I've published a Flash 6 movie and embedded it in a PDF using Acrobat Pro 7. Works fine for me, but when I send it out to certain people they get the following message: Cannot play media clip because there is no player available that can play the me...more >>

Any ideas why a site I'm working on, when two movie files are played separetely doesn't have any playback issues. But when one movie is pulled into the other movie and played back it's slow and jagged. The framerates are the same so it shouldn't be any different. Any ideas as to why this wo...more >>

hi what's the best way to compress an mp3? i'm producing a really simple slide show for a musician and she wants one of her tracks to play with it, but the mp3 is 4.5mb. i'm confused by the options on the export movie box, as i've not worked with sound before many thanks for any hel...more >>

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use the full screen command for a web site, so that the site fills the screen?...more >>

:confused;hi guys i can't seem to open my fla for some reason it says unexpected file format. and i don't know why can someone please help. below is a link to the fla. thanks http://www.gavinkean.com/gander_site/menus_logos/logo.fla ...more >>

Hello all! I am getting wonderful responses to a previous question, and certainly appreciate all the help! I now have another question to pose. My flash site is currently flash only. I would, however, like to link certain items to an .html page. If I upload my flash site correctly (wh...more >>

Hello.. I am in the process of taking over an existing Flash website. I am currently using Flash MX version 6.0 r25 If someone could look at the .fla file in this zip file http://www.meobeco.com/zips/template.zip When I open this file I get an 'Unexpected File Format' error warni...more >>

Could someone point me to tutorials on adding graphics for each click of the mouse? Basically, I need to add an event handler on a background graphic to enable me to add graphics on top of it. Then, each graphics needs to have the capability of being moved via a click and drag. If anyone c...more >>

anybody knows a utility to write to disk a sound from microphone? this is for a standar alone aplication for windows and mac....more >>

Hello everyone, I have a question pertaining to the academic version of Flash. I have a website in which I want to make Flash cartoons with my academic version of Flash. The website is completely free, so I am safe to put these on the web. Now, if I have an online store where I sell t-sh...more >>

Hey all. Is there a way to do a swap image with a swf file? I'm trying to make buttons but I have to make buttons as SWFs to get a transparent background because the GIFs look like crap when I use text and export with a transparent background. Thanks. ...more >>

Hey all, Here's what I'm up against. I have several different flash files that I need to drop into a page dynamically (from a user choice). I have one page that has to view several different flash files of different sizes. What I'm trying to do is pass a variable (the flash file dimensi...more >>

Hi there all, Really dumb question here. I've got a Flash banner (764 width by 160 Height), and I want to be able to check if the mouse is no longer hovering anywhere over the banner. For a number of reasons I don't want to use a on(rollOut) event. But instead was thinking of using the _ymo...more >>

Hi Guys I am currently working on a racing game etoy and am having some problems with the track graphics. My code works by moving a movieclip called track around the screen to give the appearance that the car is driving around. The problem is that as the track is fairly large in size (1000...more >>

i am trying to create an animated spider web where it starts at one point as a dot and thene turns intoa spider web but it you can see the web created line by line . Do i have to create a movie clip for each line andthen tween it or is there a better way?? thanks ...more >>

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS can anyone tell me how can we animate something when we move the cursor away from the button for example if we move the cursor on the button then the border slowly appears and when we move the cursor away then the border slowly disappears HOW TO ANIMATE THE DISSAPEARAN...more >>

Hello, Here' s what I would like to do, but haven't figured it out yet completely. On a page in my flash website, I would like it to contain links to video files (mpeg4) and have them downloadable to the end user. They would just click on the link and it would open the download box so the...more >>

Hello everyone, I am about as new as they come here! I am trying to publish a site to my hosting server, and get it to "start" automatically. When you go to: www.cincoranchmusic.com you get a directory. In this directory is a .swf file, that you can click on and see the site. This ...more >>

Dear friends, I'm tryin to find a font like they use on this site: http://www.eight-degrees.com it is small, however it is completely clear not "blurred" like most of fonts are... how do I make to get them ? any idea? P.S.: I am talking about the white-gray letters with an almost blac...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to underline text in a scrollable text field. My scrollable text field is identical to the one here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16142 How do i underline the text inside the scroll in a simple practical way, without to many hazzle, codes...more >>

Hi Paul, Im having a similar problem. In my case i want to underline a text in a scroll box. Can't seem to find it for days. It's amazing how such a simple thing can become a mayor pain int the a.. I saw some tutorials to do it with actions scripting but it seems ilogic to write code for 1 s...more >>

Ok, here is the deal. I am new with flash mx. I am reading and practice flash mx professional , which i am signed up for a course on marsh 6th. Now i have been told i need to know html to be able to publish my website? i thought macromedia flash mx would do all that for you. Now my question...more >>

Hey, Does anyone know if Flash MX2004 has the capability to allow the user to access their hard disk through an .swf movie? If it cant, can director? I'm a bit lost with a project and cant seem to find out if there is anything which will allow me to do this. Any wisdom would be grea...more >>