Macromedia Flash

Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Macromedia Flash Player, written and distributed by Macromedia (recently targeted for acquisition by Adobe Systems), that utilizes vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of video and audio. Strictly speaking, Macromedia Flash is the authoring environment and Flash Player is the virtual machine application used to run the Flash files, but in colloquial language these have become mixed: "Flash" can mean either the authoring environment, the player or the application files.

External links

• Macromedia
• Macromedia Flash

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• Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) Specification
• Macromedia Flash accessibility information
• Macromedia Security Zone
• Tutorials
• Flash Tutorial Index - Tutorio.com
• Macromedia Flash Tutorials - FlashTutorials.us
• Macromedia Flash Tutorials - NewTutorials.com
• Macromedia Flash Tutorials
• Actionscript Tutorials - Categorized by beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
• Examples
• 6Webs.com Hybrid Flash and HTML Site. Portfolio Section contains more flash examples
• Fun with Flash! Site dedicated to original Flash animations
• Flash Animation Site Showcase of high quality flash sites
• GameCrate Index of flash games sorted by popularity
• Newgrounds A popular user-contributed movie and game collection.
• Vectormania-Contests and voting of flash films A popular
• OddCast Human Characters Made with Flash.
• Matt World Retro, traditional web-toons.
• meanwhile... multiuser flash enviroment.
• Templates
• Easytemplates Flash Template Kit
• Flash templates
• Other flash file creation tools
• Powerbullet If you are looking for a free flash creation tool, this is a good application
• AnFX Flash Interactive Intros, Menus, Text Effects without learning scripting
• On2 Flix Flash video encoding tools from the creators of the video technology in Flash 8
• Flash file creation tool with a Javascript-like scripting language
• Anim-FX Flash Intro and Banner Builder
• Mix-FX Flash Animation Software
• Amara Software (various content creation tools)
• Free tutorial creation tool
• SwishMAX, cheaper alternative for Flash effects.
• Vertical Moon Flash Animation Software creates slideshows, text effects, preloaders and screensavers.
• Open source efforts
• OpenLaszlo - Tool which compiles XML plus Javascript to Flash
• GPLFlash Opensource Flash decoder and plugin
• MTASC Open source ActionScript compiler
• OSFlash.org Site dedicated to open source flash development
• Screenweaver OS Projector creation tool supporting Flash 6, 7 and 8 on Windows 32 operating systems
• red5.org red5 Server
• Projector Tools
• Screenweaver OS
• Goldshell Versiown
• Miscellaneous
• Flash Course Development Toolkit
• Writing Mediawiki extensions to Support embedded Flash
• Flashplayer.com
• A third-party stand-alone Flash Player
• A third-party freeware stand-alone Flash Player with enhanced features