Flash to Video

[...] Tom Green – From Flash To After Effects [...]

I still can’t see any video for any of your tutorials in Safari, even though every other video under the sun plays fine, and your do show up in Firefox. Are you sure it’s not a your-end problem? Has anyone else mentioned this to you?

Ryan,
The video works fine in Safari (version 3.2.1) on my (Intel-based) Mac. Maybe you’re missing a plug-in?

Ryan,

The web team at Layers magazine has couple of people using Macs and I asked them to test this tutorial in safari. Both of them could see the tutorial properly. Please check for new updates for Safari.

Let us know if you continue having problems and we may be able to troubleshoot further.

Thanks,

Aaron Westgate
Web Editor

Thanks, Aaron. I’m running the latest version of Safari (3.2.1), with the latest version of the Flash player (10.0 r12) installed. I just got a new iMac, but if memory serves I was also having this same problem on my old G5 iMac just before I sold it (about two weeks ago). Hmmmm….

Hello,

Really nice tutorial. Could you please post or email me the animation code so that I can follow along.

Thanks, Daniel

Hello,

Great tutorial. Could you please post or email me the code used in the tutorial so that I can follow along with the video.

Thanks,
Daniel

I tried to write the code filling in I think that have been missing e.g randomBetween. However, I am able to generate only a single character. I guess there are other segments that are missing.
Is it possible to send me the code. I love this sample.
Thanks
Myo

Miyo here is code used in the exercise. It is written by my coauthor,David Stiller:

var t:Timer=new Timer(50,0);
t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, createLetter);
t.start();

function createLetter(evt:Event):void {
var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmt.size=randomBetween(80, 120);
fmt.color=Math.floor(Math.random() * 16777216);
var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.autoSize=”center”;
tf.text=String.fromCharCode(randomBetween(97, 122));
tf.setTextFormat(fmt);
mc.addChild(tf);
mc.x = (Math.random() * stage.stageWidth);
mc.y = stage.stageHeight;
mc.ang = 0;
mc.range = randomBetween(4, 20);
addChild(mc);
mc.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, shimmy);
}

function shimmy(evt:Event):void {
var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(evt.target);
mc.y -= randomBetween(6,10);
mc.x += (mc.range * Math.cos(mc.ang += 0.4));
mc.scaleY -= 0.02;
if (mc.scaleY <= 0) {
mc.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, shimmy);
removeChild(mc);
}
}

function randomBetween(min:Number, max:Number):Number {
return (Math.random() * (max – min)) + min;
}

I am trying to create a mini commercial ad on flash for one of my advertiser and I wanted to know how I can combine more than one file to make one long flash. How do I do that?

Make sure to change the smart quote marks around “center” in this web page to regular quote marks in ActionScript.

My Qucktime movie is 9 seconds long, but it’s just a black screen for the first five seconds, so there’s only 4 seconds of the letter animation. Any idea what might have happened?

Great tutorial. Could you please post or email me the code used in the tutorial so that I can follow along with the video.

im sanad shalimar

I have cs4 and a pc… does the code work the same? And where do you insert the code?

Absolutely Anabel.

Any ideas why my swf plays fine and my QT doesn’t run very smoothly.

I’ve made a few adjustments… making the letters fall down and I’ve changed the stage size to 1920×1080, but even at the smaller dimentions, the QT animation isn’t as smooth.

Would this be down to my PC’s performance?

Great Tutorial by the way!