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Integrating Flash, Fireworks, Freehand f/x and Design

Integrating Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand f/x & Design
teaches how to bring together Macromedia´s popular Web-design tools into one integrated workflow. Learn how to prepare and export images made in FreeHand for use with Fireworks and Flash. Discover techniques for exporting Fireworks designs compatibly with FreeHand and Flash. And understand how to edit images generated in FreeHand and Fireworks within Flash. This book will allow you to become comfortable using the complete Macromedia environment to develop professional-level Web pages with interactivity. Real-world projects throughout the book enhance skills and techniques. An accompanying CD-ROM includes: trial versions of Fireworks, FreeHand, and Flash; movies demonstrating techniques discussed in the book; clip art demo with 500 pieces; demo plug-ins; and stand-alone, third-party applications.

Flash XML StudioLab

Authors: Ian Tindale | Paul MacDonald | James Rowley

XML is everywhere. It provides a versatile, cross-platform way of describing data. It's the way in which the information of the future will be stored. However, by itself, XML looks dull. It needs dressing up in diamonds and pearls to bring it to life. How can this be done? By using Flash, that's how.

This book is the foundation for mixing motion graphics with business functionality. Running through the book is a comprehensive case study comprising tutorials using real-world examples that place the technology firmly within the context of professional web and multimedia Flash design.

Foundation PHP for Flash

Author: Steve Webster

PHP is a powerful, easy-to-learn language, used in around 7 million domains. Multi-platform and open source, when partnered with Flash it can be used to create beautiful, engaging and reactive web experiences.

When also combined with the open source MySQL database solution, PHP becomes your fast track to feeding your Flash movies with real-time dynamic content: rich functionality, elegant simplicity, the beauty of Flash, with the brains of PHP. 

Foundation ColdFusion for Flash

Author(s): Fiaz Khan | Bryan Mahoney | et al

By combining Macromedia ColdFusion with Flash you can deliver web sites that have the in-your-face visual power of Flash and the seamless dynamic data handling capabilities of ColdFusion.

This book assumes you have a fairly good knowledge of Flash 5 while being a novice user of ColdFusion 5. The designer is led through chapters containing tutorials which progressively build to form a complete real-world case study, including how to create a fully-functioning message forum. The fundamentals of ColdFusion will be introduced particularly within the context of their use in a professional setting. 

Rich Media StudioLab: Video and Sound in Flash

Authors: Tia Aleo | Kristian Besley | Sham Bhangal | Murat Bodur | Martin Dahlhauser | Jorge Diogo | Fred Fauquette | Paul Logan | Alex MacLeod | Doug McDermott | Keran McKenzie | Robin Mackay | Alex Ogle | Darren Smith | Kevyn Smith | Mike Tucker | Jerome Turner | Mark Welland

With its low bandwidth and tiny file sizes, it is often wrongly assumed that sound and video can never achieve a really high level of sophistication in Flash animations. With competitive motion graphics techniques rapidly evolving, there is a constantly growing demand for the next stage in sophisticated design – video and sound.

This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing you at the extreme edge of creative web design. Illustrating the application of such tools as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge, Wildform, and RealPlayer with Flash, this book shows you how to test the boundaries of Flash and suggests ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the realms of Shockwave.