CamStudio 2.0 is a free screen capture tool that can be used in the creation of tutorials, demos, and such. You can configure it to either output a SWF or AVI file. I prefer AVI because it enables me to edit, add title screens, and do general production tasks before outputting to FLV for delivery. […]
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This is a small module I wrote as a migration exercise from AS2 to AS3. Written using FlashDevelop and the Flex SDK, there are probably a few small things I could work at to optimize the code, but as an introductory exercise, I am fairly pleased. The actual drawing process is very smooth- I’m really
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I was able to devote an entire day to working with Flex Builder yesterday and am very pleased with the experience. Having previously done work in Flex and ActionScript 3 in FlashDevelop using the Flex SDK, using a dedicated tool was very liberating. I have nothing whatsoever bad to say about FlashDevelop, but Flex Builder
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These thoughts are spawned by the announcement today of of an ‘extended’ version of Photoshop CS3. I’ve never seen the reasoning behind having two versions of a product like this. Take Flash 8 vs. Flash 8 Professional for example- the difference in feature set between the two versions is huge! I [perhaps wrongly] assume that
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I’ll be presenting my work with Flash Media Server and the DUVAGAII project as part of a panel on March 29th at the Visual Resources Association‘s 25th Anniversary conference. It should be a fairly interesting panel and I will be demonstrating some of the video tools I’ve authored allowing instructors to produce short clips of
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Just picked up the news from Flashcomguru that the Adobe Flash Media Encoder has been released. I’d previously tested the beta version off of Adobe Labs and was very pleased with the results. We had looked into the streaming of live events through Flash Media Server previously, but due to the limitations of the Spark
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I’m currently building a standalone app in Flash/AS2 translated to an execuatable via Screenweaver. What has really been a downer are the incredible restictions placed upon BitmapData.draw(), which is used heavily throughgout the application. The really terrible thing is that we own all of the domains the loaded images and video are originating from, but
Flash Player Security Sandbox is Smothering Me… Read More »
It’s a dead simple task to set up multiple application directories in Flash Media Server 2. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly how to do this for a while now (on and off) and the simplicity of it is astounding. I was under the false impression that this would require configuring a number of
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I’ve placed my first public Flex module into my portfolio as a feedreader for this website. It’s a very simple module using no ActionScript to speak of and components are being styled directly from within their properties. It’s a good first step with Flex and something that is useful for me, so I view it
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Doing some quick research at the request of a client and learned that a Zoomify export is actually built into Photoshop CS3 beta! I’ve been using the beta since it’s release yet had never noticed this option till now. While not something I would likely be using- I can imagine this feature would be huge
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In my free time (right!) over the past few months, I’ve been working on some basic ActionScript 3.0 projects to familiarize myself with the new version. I’ve been using FlashDevelop linked into the Flex SDK to write and compile my code. While I have no gripes with Flex Builder 2, I find it amazing that
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I’m not sure whether this should be classified as a bug or not. I’m currently working on a project which utilizes the new fullscreen capabilities of Flash Player 9. The module in question retrieves images, audio, video, and other objects for display one-by-one in an individual presentation format. One thing we’ve included in the application
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