Goto the Library panel in Flash and click on the little button on the top right corner of the title bar. Choose “New Video” from the menu. This creates an embedded video object in your library. Drag this video object onto the stage and resize to the dimensions of your FLV. Give the video object the instance name “myVideo“. Create a layer named “Actions” and lock it.  Highlight the first keyframe and open the actions […]

http://theflashblog.com Great site by Lee Brimlow, the man behind gotoandlearn.com. Easy to read and understand, although he underestimates how strong of a programmer he is.  Lots of Flash Video references as well.

A book not out yet but looks to be promising: http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590597486 Video is one of the hottest things on the Web today, and a lot of web developers want to use it to produce mind-blowing interactive experiences for their users. However, there is a shortage of information on how best to do this; friends of ED aims to remedy this with books like From After Effects to Flash: Poetry in Motion Graphics.After Effects ands Flash […]

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow Great commentator about politics and the mundane.  Plus he’s a designer too!

http://www.actionscript.org Flash code that’s written fairly well (sorry flashkit). Searchable.

http://www.friendsofed.com A publishing company that publishes books on Flash, Photoshop, PHP and just about everything dealing with interactive design and development.  Plus, their sample files for all books are free to download!!

http://www.homestarrunner.com It’s funny just listening to Homestar’s voice.

http://www.askaninja.com One of my favorite sites to waste time on.  Basically it’s videos of a ninja answering pretty random questions.  My favorite is the one about KillaCon.  Funny stuff.

The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) See what’s hot with Flash so you can feel bad about how much your stuff sucks. That’s what I do! Cool desktop images as well.

Below is the code I use for all buttons I make. It’s short and easily. The parameter you pass into the function is mainly the section name and also the button name. Really easy to use…. Create 3 movie clips on the stage called “section1″,”section2”, and “section3”. Inside each movie clip have “in” and “out” labels. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// // This function controls all the buttons createButton = function (item) { //whatever button your rollover, do this… […]