Comments on: Flash to Video

By: hugh

hugh — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:37:46 +0000

Anyone else getting the syntax errors on line 40??

By: Tom Green

Tom Green — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:19:53 +0000

Absolutely Anabel.

By: Anabel

Anabel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:37:39 +0000

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

By: sanad

sanad — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:19:40 +0000

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

By: Donovan

Donovan — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:41:37 +0000

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?

By: Stahlman

Stahlman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:01:42 +0000

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

By: Bridgett

Bridgett — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:32:09 +0000

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?

By: Tom Green

Tom Green — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:00:20 +0000

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;
}

By: Myo Thant

Myo Thant — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:10:15 +0000

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

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:41:33 +0000

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