Hi I was wondering if somebody can tell me how the drop down menus are created on adobe website. Is it created using Flash or fireworks??? I wanted to implement somewhat the same kind on my website. Thanks ...more >>

I just encoded a 13 minute video to FLV and to WMV, and at 2 different sizes. Not only was the 240x180 FLV file nearly the same file size (45MB) as the 320x240 FLV, but the WMV files were about half that size (appx 27MB). Can someone explain this to me? I thought FLV was supposed to be about t...more >>

I have tried every way to load a very simple text file into a Flash document and display it in a textField. Works fine on my machine, when I upload it to the hosting server (same configuration, same everything) stops working. Please can someone even tell me what to look at. Out of ideas. Tha...more >>

Hi i need some help. I need to make a picture viewer for my website i have found the template in flash but know very little about flash, I need to know why i cant get it too load properly in my website once i have added it, and how to make the buttons work. Thanks in advance to anyone who can...more >>

I?m in my last year of my degree and am considering doing a bit of freelance web developing (mainly flash but also html) alongside which ever initial jobs I manage to get when I leave. I currently work on an old 15? 1024*768 pixel LCDs and frankly I amazed myself I have survived so long using ...more >>

I am a Flash newbie and have a very similar issue to sond007. I have created horizontal a drop-down menu which is activated on Œmouse over¹ and deactivated on Œmouse out¹. To see what I mean the .swf and .fla files can be found at http://www.rockcorp.com.au/new_site/flash/flash_files.html. ...more >>

My question is...do I have to use the flash encoder to import a video? Basically, I have compiled a .flv file from within Adobe Premiere Pro using the Adobe Media Encoder within Premiere. Now, I have to compile the frame size at 320x240 in order for the video to fit within the stage area (600x...more >>

I was browsing around books on amazon and it looks like I could really get some mx 2004 books cheap on amazon. Would it be a good idea to save a few bucks and buy those books instead of getting newer books? ...more >>

Hello, I am looking for a tutorial to zoom and pan on a map. What i am looking for is exactly what you will find on the following link http://www.baiadomizia.it/default.htm The site is in italian, so click on english, then on campsite, then on pitching sites, then on camping map. A pop u...more >>

So I 'm basically trying to to what the title says. I have a somewhat complex animation involving mutliple objects on multiple layers (and folders) and want to set the entire thing slowly down the frame. For example, say I have several boxes that are flashing on and off and also moving from le...more >>

The following movie freezes up for no discernable reason, there's not even any actionscript or tweening or anything. It's just shapes in keys: http://www.mentalpicture.net/misc/test.html The small web file (http://www.mentalpicture.net/misc/test.swf) runs fine directly in the flash player...more >>

My Flash 8 (Education Version) wont import an MP3 to library or direct to stage. An error pops up 'One or more files were not imported due to there being problems reading them' Has anyone got any ideas what's wrong? Richard ...more >>

(Intec-Mac - OSX - 1.5 GB RAM) Has anyone heard of this before? Any time I switch from any other open program to a project in Flash, I get a super long wait time before I'm able to work with Flash again. The lag time [b]only[/b] happens when switching to Flash (I get the spinning ball of d...more >>

Hello! I am new to the forum and have a big problem. I am trying to execute an application with fscommand on a Intel Mac usin the latest standalone player (9.0.28) This is the code: fscommand("exec", "myapp.app"); myapp.app resides in a subfolder called "fscommand" This does not ...more >>

I've just ported a large application to Flash 8 from Flash MX 2004. Smooth sailing except for ALL of the components! Comboboxes show and populate but wont pull down. Lists and trees show up as a small rectangle (about 50 pixels) with a smaller square in their top left corner. Datagrids, sc...more >>

OK, I think our decision is to require users of this CD to have Acrobat Reader installed. In testing on systems with Reader, it seems to work just fine. May not be the most elegant method, but... Next question that came from management. Is it possible to control how the PDF file initially ...more >>

I search the Flash 8 Pro Help for a Preloader. I found "Creating a progress bar to display data loading progress" in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Flash. I gave it a try for a simple standalone document and it worked fine. But when I tried to use it in the first frame of a far more complex ...more >>

Ive made some animated button with a collection of gifs and movie clips. All works great and Im very happy with them. However, after I click on the button, once I release the mouse, the 'over' animation plays again - I just want to show the 'up' state What am i doing wrong? If Im no...more >>

(Sorry for the long post, trying to explain in detail what I'm looking for ...) Maybe you guys can tell me if this is possible using the current version of Flash (I will not be doing this myself, but I need to know if Flash is the way to go). 1) Embed several videos/audio files in an H...more >>

Hello Forums: I've been curious to see a technique that I've been seeing a lot recently in Flash website, where a small video clip is cut into images or what not and then played, almost like a video, in Flash. How is this done? Example here: http://www.eccentris.com/splash.htm Cl...more >>

Hi and help! Veeeerrrrry new to Flash. I can't find a safe title guide of any kind (need one for broadcast at the moment). A search here turned up nada. Nothing in the book I have so far. I'm sure this is in the program somewhere. Thanks ...more >>

Anyone know how to expend the threshold result from 160x120 to 320x240? http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html...more >>

I'm trying to create a Flash activity using the slideshow method. When I drop other swfs onto the slide and test the movie, the swf just cycles rapidly and will not work. Does anyone know how to get around this problem? TIA! Rick ...more >>

I have a flash app that is about 75 frames in length. There is a button that was copied into every frame of the animation. How can I quickly and easily delete that button from every frame, instead of individually clicking on every frame and manually deleting it from every frame? ...more >>

I have tried everything in my publish settings to stop my movies from looping when in a browser :( what else can I do outside of my Publish settings? It will not stop looping when in a browser?...more >>

What would cause a motion tween not to work. I am using graphics for both keyframes and it is showing an arrow on my timeline, but its not gradually making it bigger. Just small, small, small, and then big all of the sudden. I tried doing the same tween earlier on the timeline and it worked f...more >>

Just wondering if there is any product that adobe sells which can convert videos into flash (flv) on a server for a website. I want to make a scuba diving website for my club in Montreal and i need some software which can convert users videos (avi) automatically to flv and put it up (something...more >>

If I write a flash application that sequences different sounds in flash, does anyone know a way through actionscript or a third party program to get flash to export an audio file?...more >>

Hello, I have a site that uses Flash just for the top header of the index page. When viewed in IE it is correct. When viewed in Firefox 2, the background image is there, but it seems to be covered up. Now I have seen other websites that don't have this problem. What is the resolve ...more >>

Ok, so after much help on this board and several internet tutorials, I've made some headway with this animated nav bar I've been working on. I've still got a couple of problems with it, though. I scrapped the idea of using button symbols and dove into controlling movie clips with actionscrip...more >>

hopefully the titles have said enough. i've placed 2 different sizes of the same graphic symbol on a stage. one is on the bottom left side of the stage, the other on the top right. i want to create 5, inbetween sizes from small to large and distribute them evenly on the center-line axis. is ...more >>

I'm relatively new at Flash, and I hope there is a simple answer to this question. I just found out how to embed flash videos into a web page, and I was hoping it would be just as simple a task to embed audio. Our site (http://www.usafacademyband.com) has lots of audio, and it looks much "sl...more >>

Hi All- I have this wmv (windows media) file. I'd like to have the ability to place some controls (stop, pause, forward, back, etc) on this video using flash. I cannot import this file. Is it possible? Thanks, Flash ...more >>

I've uploaded my page and all associated files (swf, images), but the swf won't play in my browser. Please visit - http://www.tbproductions.com/s&f/clients.htm There is supposed to be a swf Menu under the header and a swf in the body of clients.htm. I don't understand what...more >>

I had a QuickTime movie I wanted to play in this interactive CD that I've created. I used Flash 8 Video Encoder to convert it to an .flv and then I imported it into the flash file where I wanted it to run. It works great, but no matter what size I scale it or what vertical and horizontal dimen...more >>

I'd like to export, say, the current frame being displayed in Flash Player (or previewing in the authoring environment) to eps, ultimately bound for Illustrator. I know it can be done; Joshua Davis boasts about it in one of Adobe's showcase panels. Easy enough to do while authoring, but I'm ...more >>

Hi! I need put in the flash file an ALT??? thanks Nestor Aguilar ...more >>

I'm creating a self-contained projector file for CD-ROM. I want a gradient to be the background color of the projector so that no matter what size the user's resolution is, the gradient fills the background but nothing else scales. Looks like you cannot do that by selecting background color, s...more >>

For my links to work I have to click it twice. For some reason when I move my cursor over my web page a box appears around the whole page and my cursor turns into a hand indicating that the whole page is a link. Can anyone help me. Thanks. ...more >>

New to Flash. I'm assembling a demo for my boss of a marketing presentation to eventually be distributed on CD. Initially I published html on the three (many more to come) screens in the demo. I used the load url command to call up the separate files. On some of our PCs it worked fine, others ...more >>

I'm using flash MX and I am having a problem publishing my animation, when i view it in flash the sound is perfectly synced to the images but as soon as i export it or publish it the sound plays about 3 seconds too fast. Can some one help? Lisa AW ...more >>

Hi, a customer of mine would like somehting similar to this added to their website http://www.makro.co.uk/flash3/nonfood/flash.cfm?ID=371 Could any one let me know what software I need to create something like this? Many thanks Debbie ...more >>

Okay folks, im a graphic design student, and theyve insisted on us doing a small character animation. Now, what i want to do is based on a few animations we've likely seen before. Basically, i want a line drawn background to appear as if I'm drawing it. From what i can gather, I'd need to draw...more >>

I want to create a projector from Flash (projector.exe) that has my own custom icon and title text in the top window bar. This is something that I routinely do with Director, (by editing the icons in the projec32.skl file in Director's Program Files' folder), but I can't figure out how to ...more >>

I have a group of graphics files called logo1, logo2, logo3, etc. There are 15 of them. When I choose "import to stage" and select the first file, I get a message that Flash will automatically import the other files in the series. This would be great. However, when I choose this, it only i...more >>

In MX, there was a feature nammed "Open as Library". It was very useful and convenient for creating new .fla without the hassle of waiting for the redraw of, sometimes, the large document I was using as source. I cannot find this feature in 8 Professional. Any turnaround ? Thanks in a...more >>

I am getting this error when trying to import an .avi file into Flash 8 Professional on a Windows 2000 machine: [Q]The source file stock_1.avi contains video in an unsupported format and cannot be encoded.[/Q] On another machine, the same video imports fine in Flash 8 Professional (thoug...more >>

Every time I try to import video into Flash 8, I get an error like this: "The source file *.avi contains video in unsupported format and cannot be encoded" The external Flash8 Encoder simply crashes on me. Would it make a difference if this was an unlocked (activated?) downloaded trial ...more >>

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I have noticed a difference between motion tweens created by the context menu ( ie right clicking on a PC and selection Create Motion Tween) and creating two seperate frames and then selecting motion tween from the Properties bar. These are represented on the time line ... both in blue .......more >>