Finally, friends of ED have produced a beautiful full colour companion to last years New Masters of Flash! Each New Masters volume delves deep into the heart of the year's most innovative Flash design and brings you the new New Masters' inspiration and technique. Building to form a unique collection of Flash Art, the New Masters series tests your Flash skills, offers inspiration and insight, while at the same time forms an in-depth chronicle of the best of motion graphics. 
New Masters: Flash Annual 2002 gives competent web artists inspiration on cutting-edge Flash design techniques, as well as serious tutorial information on how to build top class effects. The format builds on the best of the original best-selling volume, New Masters of Flash, while improving in such areas as generic customisable code examples. The talents, the inspirations and effects are all of the moment and represent the mature and expert deployment of the staggering new capabilities of Flash 5 ActionScript. 
This book offers immediate insight into the design approaches of 15 globally known designers. There is step-by-step deconstruction of cutting-edge design effects, both from the original designer’s p.o.v, PLUS an editorial commentary. 
Included is a CD-ROM with animated tutorials and video interviews with authors.

New Masters of Flash: The 2002 Annual

Computers & Technology

Hoss Gifford

Pete Barr-Watson~Jessica Speigel~Amit Pitaru~Chris Andrade~Manny Tan~Brian Limon

Pete Barr-Watson

Amit Pitaru

Jessica Speigel

Chris Andrade

Brian Limond

Mickey Stretton

Samuel Wan

Josh Levine

Software

friends of ED

Let's make movies! Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface! With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities. This book takes you through all you need to know about producing such wonderful sites. The first section gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output to the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we show you how can apply advanced ActionScript to video, and create a fully object-oriented sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again. The inclusion of video support is the most noticeable and exciting feature in Flash MX - viewers who have the tiny Flash Player installed can now see video material that would otherwise require lengthy downloads and the clunky interfaces of other web video plug-ins. This book is the guide you need for this exciting new universe, offering inspiration and technical guidance in equal measure. As with all books from friends of ED our support is fast, friendly and free. Even if our dedicated support team are unable to solve your problem immediately, your queries will be passed onto the editors and authors who put the book together. All foED authors help with the support on their books, and will either directly mail readers with solutions or (more usually) send their response to an editor to pass on. This book assumes no knowledge beyond an ability to work with the Flash MX interface, and is not intended for those with substantial digital video experience. As such, this book does not assume that the reader has access to expensive video-editing software. All you need for this book is access to Flash MX, and some imagination.

Macromedia Flash MX Video

Todd Marks

Brian Monnone

Kristian Besley~Hoss Gifford~Todd Marks~Brian Monnone

Web Development & Design

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