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As a service to web viewers, we have posted links to 108 free, high-content video FLASH tutorials from one of the best sources on the web. And they are all FREE!

Please check back often as we are constantly adding more Free Flash Video Tutorials as they become available.

See our links to 93 free video tutorials on Photoshop from the same source.

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They are one of the leading training companies in video learning on web design and development technologies. Lenox Web gets nothing from these links. But we have used their tutorials in the past and we can attest that they are great! Check them out; they have tutorials covering many different topics. And they are reasonably priced.

But why Videos?
Videos are great at getting you up to speed on a particular topic very quickly.  We've read our fair share of 1000 page technical books, and many of them are great, but sometimes you just need to see someone performing a task and listen to their explanation.  As the old adage goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."  As visual and audio learners, videos help us quickly understand 80% of what we need to know to get started, and after we have a fundamental grasp on a given technology, we can find the last 20% in the online help, in books or on the discussion forums.

Free Flash Tutorials
The Illusion of Depth from: LearnFlash.com In this tutorial, Bert Lee will show you how to use multiple layers of scrolling backgrounds to create an illusion of depth and perspective. This is a flash lesson combined with a basic animation lesson, so watch closely and you will see some magic.	"Flash Particle Effects with Actionscript 3.0" Preview-1 from: LearnFlash.com In order to create a particle effect, you must first learn to add particles to the stage, and in this video, Craig will demonstrate how to do that.
"Flash Particle Effects with Actionscript 3.0" Preview-2 from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig creates the smoke particle and fleshes out some of the ActionScript for the fla file.	Morphing Text from: LearnFlash.com In this tutorial, Bert Lee will show you how to morph shape into text. In this demonstration, he uses a customized home button and a puff of smoke.
"Top Tutorials for Building Websites" Preview from: LearnFlash.com In this video, you will learn how to create an external class that links to a button symbol on your stage. This way, you will be able to add code for your button to an external ActionScript	"Introduction to Flash CS3" Preview-1 from: LearnFlash.com If you are working with Flash for the first time, there are a couple of file formats that you will need to be familiar with. In this video, Craig discusses the basics behind .fla files and .swf
"Introduction to Flash CS3" Preview-2 from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig walks you through the Flash working environment.	"Introduction to Flash CS3" Preview-3 from: LearnFlash.com Customizing your panel layout does you no good if there is no way to hold onto those changes, so in this video, Craig shows you how to save, load, and manage your panel layouts in Flash.
"Introduction to Flash CS3" Preview-4 from: LearnFlash.com The Tools Panel is going to be one of the most often used panels in Flash. In this introduction to a series of lessons on using the drawing tools, Craig explains the tools panel and shows you how you can customize it.	"Creative Drawing Techniques in Flash" Preview from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig demonstrates his favorite method for tracing over scanned drawings in Flash using the line and selection tools.
"Building Web Ready Videos with Flash and Photoshop" Preview from: LearnFlash.com Bert Lee introduces us to a workflow for making web ready videos. Using Photoshop CS3 Extended as a primary production tool, and Flash CS3 as a finishing tool for integrating audio, video and other mutli-media resources. And with the additional support of utility programs Quicktime Pro and Audacity, we learn how to produce great looking and sounding videos as quick loading Flash movies. This is an overview of all of the steps involved in the process, with a brief description of the role of each of the four programs involved.	"ActionScript 3 Animation" Preview from: LearnFlash.com Using a Timer to animate is similar in functionality to the way the ENTER_FRAME method works, except that with a Timer, you have a little more control over the speed and fluidity of the animation.
"Building a Music Player in Flash CS3" Preview from: LearnFlash.com Shelley goes over the use of the basic drawing tools and methods needed to build simple, elegant graphic symbols. Graphic creation is step-by-step, so no prior art experience with Flash is necessary. You will be making the Stop, Pause, Play, Volume Slider, Information Windows and the "face plate" for your new mp3 player.	"Building Websites in Flash CS3" Preview-1 from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig demonstrates how to take the file that we set up in the last video and make the buttons function properly
"Building Websites in Flash CS3" Preview-2 from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig makes the website a little more interesting by adding animated transitions between the pages of the website.	"Integrating Flash CS3 with XML" Preview-1 from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig defines and demonstrates what XML is and what it can be used for. He also shows a sample XML document.
"Integrating Flash CS3 with XML" Preview-2 from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig discusses the few, simple rules behind XML as he walks you through the process of building your own XML document.	"Building a Video Player in Flash CS3" Preview from: LearnFlash.com In this video, Craig shows you how to get an FLV video up and running in your Flash file in a manner of seconds using the FLVPlayback Component!
"New Features of Flash CS4" Preview from: LearnFlash.com One of the most anticipated new features of Flash CS4 is the new Tween engine. Motion tweens and motion guides are now much simpler than they were before, and in this video, Craig will demonstrate their use.	"Introduction to Flash CS4" Preview from: LearnFlash.com When you initially open Flash, you will be greeted with a welcome screen that provides links for creating new files, opening existing files, opening recently used files, creating files from templates, etc.
Using 3D in Flash CS4" Preview from: LearnFlash.com In this video, you will learn about the 3D Translation Tool, which allows you to move 2-dimensional objects around in 3D space.	"Building Websites in Flash CS4" Preview from: LearnFlash.com In this lesson, Craig will demonstrate how to create frame labels and then how to point to those labels in ActionScript in order to make your code more flexible and easier to read.

 

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