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Animate CC – Quick Tips

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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Happy Hallowe’en!

First of all… my wishes for a happy and safe Hallowe’en to all. Happy Hallowe’en!#Halloween #MadewithAnimate pic.twitter.com/V6pMda8Rgq — Joseph Labrecque (@JosephLabrecque) October 31, 2017 If you’d like to get some more information on how this was put together, check out the following video which briefly demonstrates how advanced layers mode and the virtual camera in …

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Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC

Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC! Create a shared pool of content for a set of related projects—HTML5 video, a WebGL-rendered interactive ad, and an HTML5 Canvas game—using Flash Professional CC. No longer restricted to only ActionScript and Flash Player, Flash Professional CC offers more …

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Lynda.com: Building Custom HTML5 Video Playback with AngularJS

Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: Building Custom HTML5 Video Playback with AngularJS! Develop a customized responsive video app that performs and appears great in all browsers, using AngularJS and Bootstrap. HTML video doesn’t require plugins for playback, but the default experience differs drastically across browsers. Using a combination of Bootstrap and AngularJS, …

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Announcing AS3-WebVTT

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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DVD: Adobe Flash Professional CC Learn by Video (2014 release)

The DVD of “Adobe Flash Professional CC Learn by Video (2014 release)” is now available for purchase via Amazon.com, Peachpit.com, and other retailers. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 5-3/8″ x 8-1/4″ Pages: 1 Edition: 1st DVD ISBN-10: 0-13-392809-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-392809-9 This critically-acclaimed interactive training program from Adobe Press offers exceptional quality high-definition video to teach the fundamentals …

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Multi-Symbol Sprite Sheets from Flash Professional CC to Edge Animate CC

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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Apache Flex 4.11+ and OSMF Quick-Tip

When using Apache Flex 4.11 (or 4.12) – and the Spark VideoDisplay component (based around OSMF)… you may encounter the following runtime error: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. This happens when attempting to reference the videoObject element of a VideoDisplay component. For example, when attaching a …

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