The Glow Filter Effect Trevor Hughes You now can apply graphical filters to objects much like you can do with Adobe Photoshop.
Flash 8 Drop Shadow Filter Michael Komocsin To dynamically create a static drop shadow, simply follow these steps.
Control Multiple Movie Clips using Matrices Marshall Macgillivray By setting the properties of a Matrix object and applying it to a MovieClip or BitmapData object you can perform translations, rotations, scaling and skewing.
Dynamic Displacements Maps Wasim Singh Flash 8 introduces many graphic filters including the Displacement Map Filter wich allows us to distort a movie clip based on a bitmap's color values.
Convolution Filter Cameron Warnock Convolution filters can create many effects such as blurring, sharpening, beveling and many more.
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Alpha Video In Flash 8 Professional Christina Canales This tutorial will focus on Flash 8's (Professional only) ability to read alpha channels from video files.
Embedded Cue Points Bradley Pottle Embed cue points in Flash video so that you can find and seek them with ActionScript.
File Upload Using the FileReference API Mark Shu The FileReference Class allows the SWF file access the user's machine to perform file upload and download operations.