I’ve begun producing a number of quick videos showcasing various features, tricks, and tips around Animate CC. These are meant to be helpful little 1-2 minute pieces that never go much in depth… those deeper, more lengthy tutorials I’ll reserve for my publishers like Lynda.com / LinkedIn Learning. One of the main drivers of this […]
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Since beginning this practice with the Adobe Generation Professional demo sessions, I’ve begun recording any live demos using Camtasia 9 and uploading them to YouTube. The full session with all speakers is linked below as well – but this segment has better audio and video. I also include the project files created during the session
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Create custom brushes with Capture CC and use them to create expressive animations in Animate CC. Check it out!
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I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time, for the benefit of anyone else who encounters the problem. Things are going to get crazy around here, so I might as well get this out there and out of my drafts! The problem itself is that we run a number of Adobe Media Server
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AS3-WebVTT is a set of ActionScript 3.0 utility classes which enable the parsing and sorting of standard WebVTT (.vtt) files for video captioning. Why write a WebVTT parser in AS3? Simple. A lot of video is still served with Flash Player or AIR – we certainly still use it extensively at the University of Denver. Recently, we’ve found the
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The other day I posted about using sprite sheets generated from the 2014 release of Flash Professional CC and using those within Edge Animate CC. It’s an awesome workflow between the two applications and works really, really well. A reader commented about a number of things – and one of the specific things that was
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Want to start using your Adobe Creative Cloud apps, but don’t know where to begin? That’s where we come in. The following tutorials will take you through a quick, entry-level project. You’ll see what you can do and be ready to learn more. People may have been wondering… “where is a “Getting Started” tutorial for
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A box of these just showed up at my doorstep. Looks like they are now available for sale online as well! This critically acclaimed interactive training program from Adobe Press offers exceptional quality high-definition video to teach the fundamentals of Adobe Flash Professional CC. Including more than 4 hours of video tutorials, the course comes
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Very pleased to announce that I’ve started a new publishing relationship with Lynda.com and the first course in their library is “Getting Started with ActionScript”! How did this come about? After my former publisher, video2brain was acquired – a number of us authors were asked whether we’d like to join the Lynda.com team and were
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Over the weekend, my newest video course with video2brain was published. Getting Started with Flash Professional CS6 Step-by-Step Basics to Get You on Your Way In this course, Flash authority Joseph Labrecque takes you on the straightest path to proficiency with Flash Professional CS6. You’ll learn your way around the interface and get comfortable working
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This is another new features demonstration which I originally wrote for my upcoming AIR 3 book showing the StageText class in action on a device! Native Text Input UI (mobile) — Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on mobile platforms, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and
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I’ve had this example of the Vibration ActionScript Native Extension (ANE) on my DROID3 for some time now and am just thrilled with the expanded capabilities of ANE in Adobe AIR 3 for both mobile and desktop. Wanted to share this example which I originally wrote for my upcoming AIR 3 book which displays the
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