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Adobe Tech Wednesday: Flash and After Effects Together.

Christian Gehrke — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:15 +0000

OVERVIEW: Flash and After Effects Together
Learn how Flash and After Effects can be used together to create in ways
that would be complex with either tool alone. In this session we will
take a look at creating ‘Hollywood style’ text animation effects, and
then bring them into your Flash project for use on the web. Then we will
flip-it. Learn how to add ‘post’ effects to your Flash animations in
After Effects to add richness, and a broadcast quality finish to your
project.

http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p38226817/

Tech Wednesday: How to Cheat in Flash CS3

Christian Gehrke — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:19:26 +0000

How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3

PRESENTER: Chris Georgenes, Adobe Community Expert, Founder of MudBubble (mudbubble.com) and all around terrific guy!

OVERVIEW: Chris will share some tips and tricks from his new book “How
to Cheat in Flash CS3: : The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash
CS3″

Here is the link to his presentation:

http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p18262472/

I found some of Chris’s stuff online and went ahead and made some links to the stuff I really like:

http://www.mudbubble.com/projects/twinkle_twinkle.html

http://www.swirlkids.com/

Adobe Flash Player 9 Beta Update

Christian Gehrke — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:37:51 +0000

For those of you who are interesting in playing around with the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player version 9, today there is now an update.

This new version is only a beta and bound to bit a bit buggy but with it comes a whole lot of new features. One of the most talked about new features is the fact that it will now support a much wider range of video options including the ever popular H.264. You may be asking yourself what does this mean? To put it in a nutshell it basically means that flash video is going to get a lot better. With sites like YouTube and Google Video all using flash as their means of playing videos this only makes sense. Here is a great article written by one of Adobe’s Flash developers.

What just happened to video on the web?

To get your hands on a copy visit the Adobe Labs site using the link below. You might need to get an Adobe Id but it’s free and easy to do so go ahead and sign up.

Adobe Labs: Flash Beta

Adobe: CS3 is out.

Christian Gehrke — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:26:43 +0000

Adobe has announced the release of the new CS3 suite of software. I have been looking over the details and I have to say I am very impressed. With this being the very first launch since the merge of Macromedia and Adobe it was bound to be an interesting event. What was lost? What is new? All our questions are now answered and you really must see the new site and the amazing flash presentation on the site. Click the “more” button to see the links.

Adobe CS3

Monthly PeachPit Book Selection

Christian Gehrke — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:16:09 +0000

Our choices came today and I went ahead and picked a title I thought would be interesting:

Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Hands-On Training

Article Description
Continuing his series of articles on ActionScript for designers, James Gonzalez shows you how to combine several of the simple ActionScript techniques to create a semi-transparent, animated pull-down menu.

For more sample chapters and other information visit the address above or this address:

Click Here

Graphical Speed Test

Christian Gehrke — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:24:29 +0000

It’s always handy to know exactly what your internet connection speed is. There are many sites that offer both free and paid services that do just that. But, none have done it as graphically pleasing as the new and improved Speedtest.net.

With their clean flash interface and smooth matrix-like overview, you can see your speed from different locations and get a real geographical idea of exactly where the data is traveling during the test.

Check it out for yourself:

Speedtest.net

via The iSpySite.com