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Flash Demo Reel: What's The Best Way To Put This Together?
Hey all,

I'm putting together a demo reel of a variety of Flash projects we've done.

I would like the resulting file to be controllable with a Flash controller, meaning I'd like users to be able to pause it, rewind, fast forward or scrub through it.

I already have a component for the VCR style controller but how would you suggest putting the various pieces together in a way that it will be controllable?

- Should I bring in each of the various Flash movies as a separate scene in an external movie, then export it as a SWF and load it into a holder MC?

- Should I bring each of the various movies into a separate slide? Would slides even work with a controller?

Is there a comletely different way altogether? What do you guys think?

Flash Picture Reel
I'm a noob at Flash, but I need to make this scrolling-picture movie from a folder of images. There will be no reaction from the mouse; it will just be a picture gallery that scrolls horizontally.

This is what my boss gave me:

Does someone know of a good tutorial I could look at?

Flash Image Reel
hi guys !

from a long time ago i have been thinking how paramount pictures made the reel of the current movies playing

look at this : http://www.paramount.com/

anyone knows the logic behind that flash reel, or can give a link to a tutorial where teach this ?

cheerz !

Creating A Showreel/demo Reel With Flash Movies
Hi,
I want to make a showreel/demoreel of my flash character animation work as opposed to making a portfolio website. It is purely flash movies with no interactivity and so I want to make a linear showreel (or just very long movie of my work). I have just found that it is near impossible to import flash .swf files as quicktime movies into After Effects as AE 7 doesn't seem to read the quicktime movies, or quicktime doesn't read the swfs, I don't really know.

Does anyone know of a quick way to edit my flash movies into a demo reel format? Are there any freeware packages that I could use. I would want to ouput to either swf or a quicktime file.
Many thanks in advance.

Demo Reel
I'm not sure if this is posted in the wrong forum. If it is, sorry

Ok, this is what I need done. First of all, if you have been to my site you know that my sister and I are a brother-sister tap team. We are looking to make a demo reel using some of our video clips that we have.

Now, I have no idea where to start .

If someone could please contact me on any of the instant messenger programs, or email me at michael@twofortap.com to help me, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you, and I hope to hear from someone soon!

Michael
www.twofortap.com

[F8] Help With Photo Reel
nevermind..

Cotton Reel
here's a little thing i made whilst i was messing around.

my idea was to create a 'cotton reel' that is on a spring so that you can pull string from it, and when you loosen your string, it rolls back up.

take a look
[swf=http://www.kirupa.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13863]height=700 width=700[/swf]

[edit]updated it so it's smoother when you roll over it - my friend complained [/edit]

Help With Picture Reel
I'm creating a picture show reel. It's very basic, but it's only for learning purposes. As far as I can tell, the Actionscript is correct. It's supposed to show three slides, but instead it's showing four. And the first two are overlapping each other. Can someone take a look at it for me? Thanks. I'll also post the code. It might be fruitless though if not looking at the FLA. It can be obtained from here

center = Stage.width/2;
cellWidth = reel_mc.cell_mc._width;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
leftStop = center-reel_mc._width+cellWidth/2;
rightStop = center-cellWidth/2;
reelSpeed = (_xmouse-center)/10;
reel_mc._x += reelSpeed;
if (reel_mc._xrightStop) {
reel_mc._x = rightStop;
}
};
function NewCell(num, details) {
oldClip = _root.reel_mc.cell_mc;
newClip = oldClip.duplicateMovieClip("cell"+num, num);
newClip._x = num*300;
}

NewCell(1, "");
NewCell(2, "");
NewCell(3, "");

Picture Reel Problem
*~ Made Using : FlashMX ~*

I have just tried to make a flash picture reel that loads up jpg's externaly and shows them in the picture viewer that you can scroll horizontaly (Newbie stuff or what! But that's me newbie ) Anyway when the pictures load up they don't load in the position of placeholder_mc and only one of them actually shows up? I need to know why they wont show in place? If you need to see the file I have ZIP'd it up and attatched it to this post with the pictures to.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I kinda need help A.S.A.P. so if you can be as quick as possible.
Cheers

Studentmonster

Reel Rolling Effect
How can i recreate the effect of reels on a fruit machine rolling and then stopping. I want to create a banner where the reels roll and then stop one by one with my title in each reel but i want it to look realistic.

Thanks for any help

Old Film Reel Effect
How can I do an old fashion film effect with scratches, the number countdown, and maybe even the sound of it all too? Is there a tutorial out there that will help? I am not sure if it would have to be a separate movie loaded on top of the main movie I want to show though.

Movie Reel Turning
Can anyone tell me the steps to make a movie reel turn while staying in one place?

Scrolling Picture Reel
Hi I need some help please. I am trying to accomplish a scrolling pic reel exactly like the one on this website http://www.lomamedia.com/V1.html. I want it in a bottom, scrolling continously without any pause or break in between and so far i have came up with this code only

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += 3
}

If someone knows the correct script please help. I can only use actionscript 1 that is what's compatible with my editor.

Embedding A Demo Reel F8
What is the most effective way of showing video on the web?
Do I embed a flash video on my flash site or open a seperate url
as a quicktime or wmv?

Do I need a seperate streaming app or is flash effective enough?
The demo reel needs to be small but still have sharp image, It will be higher quality than normal as it is an efx reel.

Any ideas?
Ant

Scrolling Reel Problem
I created a continous slide show usind the scrolling reel tuturial. The show works fine, the problem is when I load slideShow.swf into another movie clip in another movie.

I want the slideShow.swf to play when a certain button is pushed. So far in the home timeline on the first frame of the actions layer I have this:

button.onRelease = function() {
if (_root.section != "slideShow.swf") {
_root.section = "slideShow.swf";
_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");
}
};

the movie clip that the slideShow.swf is loading into has an instance name of "container."

This is the code on the first line of the slide show

slide_number = 17;

reel_speed = 1;
slide_count = 3;
m1 = _root.content.slide_1;
m2 = _root.content.slide_2;
m1._x = 0;
m1._y = 0;
m2._x = 600;
m2._y = 0;
_root.content.onEnterFrame = function() {
_root.content.moveLeft(reel_speed);
};
function moveLeft(nPixels) {
m1._x -= nPixels;
m2._x -= nPixels;
if (m1._x<-600) {
m1 = _root.content["slide_" + slide_count];
slide_count = slide_count += 1;
if (slide_count > slide_number) {
slide_count = 1;
}
m1._x = 550;
m1._y = 0

}
if (m2._x<-600) {
m2 = _root.content["slide_" + slide_count];
slide_count = slide_count += 1;
if (slide_count > slide_number) {
slide_count = 1;
}
m2._x = 550;
m2._y = 0;
}
}

What I have noticed is the first slide loads corectly, but then the rest don't work. Do I have a wrong path for all of the slides except for slide_1?

Continuous Movie Reel?
Hello guys...

I'm trying to dynamically bring in a selection of images in a row from left to right or right to left for the full width of the stage...

I've been to: http://www.actionscript.org/tutorial...el/index.shtml

but I need something that starts from the edge of one end and continues untill the other...

Cant figure out the script....please help

Scrolling Picture Reel
Hi I need some help please. I am trying to accomplish a scrolling pic reel exactly like the one on this website http://www.lomamedia.com/V1.html. I want it in a bottom, scrolling continously without any pause or break in between and so far i have came up with this code only
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += 3
}

If someone knows the correct script please help. I can only use actionscript 1 that is what's compatible with my editor.

Web Site Intro Reel
hi im designing a web site for my friend he is a rapper and he is going to have a show and we want to make a coming soon reel for his web site on the reel ive seen it before where you could see all the things the website does how can i do that does anyone know of any info for this.

Old Movie Reel Effect
I am wanting to make an old movie reel effect for my website using Flash 5. My navigation bar is going to come down and run by much like it would if it were going through a projector. When it stops I want all my links to look like slides from the reel. Any suggestions on where to start or how to go about doing this?

How Do You Create A Movie Reel Effect?
I'm am developing in FLASH 5. What is the best way to create a movie reel effect. For instance if you what the perfed edges to acclerate in a forward motion for 20 frames and reverse for 10 frames at a slower rate and then back to a forward motion. Is this done with actionscript or can it be done without? Can you do this with a mask?

Old Time Movie Reel Countdown
Can anyone point me towards a tutorial or just a movie example of an old time movie reel countdown. Like a black and white 5,4,3,2,1 thing. I have one made, but it lacks the authentic look and feel so I need some pointers. I saw one of these quite some time ago, and now I can't locate anything on it.

thanks!

Script To Move A Reel Of Pics?
Hi there

I have a website I'm working on, and I have the stage 700x400 filled with the first image from a reel of pics (the reel has 5 pics, each 700x400).

I want it to work so that when I click on one of the buttons, the reel moves along to the next pic in line (gliding in, not just budging up). I guess that means once you've clicked 4 buttons, it will start moving backwards? Not sure, to be honest.

Any ideas what kind of thing I need for this?

All help gratefully received.

Steve

Looking For Mouse Reel Effect Like Www.skyimagestudios.com
Hey all, does any one know of a tutorial, or could point me in the right direction for a mouse reel effect like the one on http://www.skyimagestudios.com ? I've seen these around, I just can't find anything on it. Any help would be appreciated. Thx

Show Reel Wows (linking Several Files)
ok I've made 5 clips in Flash MX (they're all from different project files) .. but when I try to put them in a new project to produce a little show reel none of the clips work......

What's the best way to produce a little show reel??

ta,

mojo

Dynamic News Reel From XML - That Doesnt Scroll
Hi All,

Okay, I've created a flash (using MX) that I hard coded to have buttons (text w/ clear background) that scroll up to a point, stay there for 20 seconds or so and then scroll back down the way it came; then the next button scrolls up and so on ...

What I'd like to do is make this dynamic - meaning have a new button be created & placed into the animation dynamically from the text of a XML document (aka - not imaged based). That being said, though I've patched together a nice gallery using a similar technique, I'm really clueless on how to apply that to this. Creating/loading the XML I think I can handle. What I dont know is how to have the flash have the animated intro I want - then dynamically create all of the buttons (basically putting the new text on the clear background w/ the correct as link listed in the xml), have them go up then back down & move to the next. Then when all of the buttons are done, have the closing animation.

Does anyone know how to do what Im hoping to do? Know of any good tutorials on this (I've found things close but they arnt close enough)? Am I even being clear?

Thank you for any help you can toss me.

Real Real Dumb Questions
I have been using Front Page to develope my divisions Intranet page for the past couple of years, and have become fairly proficient with the various versions from 98 to 2002. I am also in the process of designing a page for a friends band. My company (the US Postal Service) has let it be known that we can now use Flash during the development of our sites. My question/questions are: What exactly is Flash and what can it do for me to improve my pages? I have seen several sites that incorporate "movies" that I believe are Flash creations, into various parts of the site, although it appears that most are used on the "Splash" page. Can Flash "projects" be incorporated into a Front Page page, or does it have to exist as a standalone page? I have read through the tutorials but I guess I'm in a fixed mindset because I just can't seem to get a grasp on the whole Flash concept. A friend who has moved on to other products has loaned me her version 4 of Flash to experiment with, and I notice that version 5 can be had pretty cheaply on eBay, so I would not be adverse to purchasing an earlier version (4 or 5) for my personal use and while learning. If I can show a bit of proficieny with the product, HQ will probably supply me with the latest version, and more than likely, the necessary training to go along with it.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm at a loss for answers.
Thanks,
John

Flash And Real
Hey Flashkit Guys and Gals,

I just wanted to see about how to control a embedded Real Video Clip with an embedded flash file.

Have the play pause, stop etc in an flash file that will affect the real movie.

If anyone knows of a post about this, or can jut give me some information about doing this, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
dduck1934

Help With Flash And Real Player
I have a real audio file that I want to be able to click a button and have the real audio file play. I have been using the get url but everytime i click it it pops a window open for a second. Is there a way I can open this file up without using the get url. I think this is whats causing the window to pop open.

Real Audio & Flash
How can I have Flash download and start playing a real audio file in the real audio player?

word,
bobadooka

Flash And Real Estate
I was wondering if Flash is good to create a Real Estate type site with query search.. I think it would be great because you sould make animated galleries. What type of grogramming is envolved with this?
Thanks

How To Use Real Photo's In Flash,please Help
Hello,

First I want to explain that before asking this question, I tried searching all over online. I search google for 7 days and endless hours for 'flash tuts' and aside from finding amazing helpful websites, I couldnt find the help for me newbie question. I always try to find the anwser myself before asking.

I offered to create this small website for a small childeren school. I know html but not flash. What I have is a real photo of the front of a theater, with different colored neon lights...some going straight, some twist in a design, then there are small light bulbs going all around the letters.

The theater image is going to be the first page, and then once you click the doors it will load a basic website, with no flash.

To help give a better idea...have you ever seen photos of las vegas at night, where they show all the bright glowing lights, moving all around and etc. I want to be able to take the same effect and to that to one photo of a theater I have.

I dont understand how I would add the effects to certain areas of the photo. Take the neon for example, how would I make certain neon lights glow or flash. Then for the light bulbs, how would I give them that on/off look?

I want to truly thank you for hopefully taking the time and helping me out. I'm sure this must be a real newbie question, but your help would mean a great deal to the kids and me....thanks

My First REAL Flash Site
Ok, its just about done, and I would like some feedback. Thanks to Kirupa and the great members here, I have learned a lot to make this site! Check out the mouseovers and all the sections that work (currently, News is the only non-functional section). Here is the test site ...

http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/

There is one problem I'm having. In Internet Explorer (apparently on PCs and Macs), the gallery section is not working properly. I used a tutorial from this site to make centered pop-ups of each image in the gallery (tutorial link ) , but for some reason in IE, only the first three images actually make a pop-up window. In Netscape, all of them work.

So I'd like some feedback, and I need some help

Please Help, Having A Real Problem With Flash And PHP.
Hi all,
First I would like to say thanks to the guys at Kirupa for doing such a great job, I've found the tutorials really helpful. That aside, Im having real trouble integrating Flash with PHP.

I have a MySql Database set up, with values inserted, I have my php script which I am confident is not the source of the problem but I will post my source code just to be double sure.

##Flash Source Code##
//create loadvar object called l
l = new LoadVars();
//tell new loadvar object to load php file
l.load ("flashphp.php");
//once variables have been loaded do this stuff
l.onLoad = function() {
//create local variable called i
var i;
//i is zero, whilst i is less than the amount of data in the database (passed via php) increment i)
for (i=0; i<this.n; i++) {
//Text box is called venues. Add to that text box the data from the variables the php has passed through
venues.htmlText += this["venue"+i];
venues.htmlText += this["location"+i];
venues.htmlText += this["phone"+i];
venues.htmlText += this["web"+i];
}
}

// I added the comments just to let you all know what I 'think' it might be doing, im quite likely to be wrong hehe

##PHP Source Code##

<?
include("dbinfo.inc.php");

mysql_pconnect (localhost,$username,$password);
mysql_select_db ($database);

$qResult = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM sites ORDER BY id ASC");
$nRows = mysql_num_rows($qResult);
$rString ="&n=".$nRows."&";
for ($i=0; $i< $nRows; $i++){

$row = mysql_fetch_array($qResult);
$rString .="id".$i."=".$row['id']."&"."venue".$i."=".$row['venue']."&".
"phone".$i."=".$row['phone']."&"."mobile".$i."=".$row['mobile']."&"."web".$i."=".$row['web']."&";

}
echo $rString."&";

?>

Seriously guys, any help or suggestions would be SO gratefully received, thank you for your time!

James

Real Video In Flash
Hi, I would like to know how can i create real live videos like this web site http://www.msdewey.com/ in flash
thanks

How I Can Open Real Player In Flash
does any one know how can open real player video format in flash
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Flash Launching Real Video?
Does anyone know anything about playing real video from a flash file? What about embedding numerous real video clips into a database that can be called from a flash application.

If so, I would really appreciate a reference to a tutorial, or info page.

Thank you,

angela

Controling Real Player Through Flash
does anyone know how to control real player through flash? the example i have worked on so far is this...

//this is pasted into my html containing the flash movie

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scroll="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="margin: 0">
<object width="0%" height="0%" name="radioPlayer" classid="clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA">
<param name="src" value="128k.ram">
<embed src="128k.ram" width="2" height="2" type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" name="radioPlayer">
</object>

//in flash, this is the action to the button that would trigger the real player stream to start

javascript:radioPlayer.DoPlay();

anyway, i was under the impression this would work, but thats not the case, at least for me, any suggestions? Im not even sure that this is how you would go about doing this...i've been hurting to get this for a while now...any help help would be much appreciated (sp), thanks!

Controling Real Player Through Flash Possible?
Hi there.

I have seen some sites which uses a flash based interface to control a real player window. Can anyopne shed some light on this?

Is it even possibl ein Flash 4?

thanks!

S

Flash/Real Player Communication
I have an flash/Real Player application and it plays just fine. My concern is in my HTML file I have the following code:

myState=document.radioPlayer.GetPlayState();
document.mymovie.SetVariable("playstate", myState);

The SetVariable() does not seem to be effecting my swf, am I missing some code which allows my variable to communicate between my swf file and the HTML Page

PLEASE HELP

Flash Button Problem ( Real New At This)
Ok the problem is when I build the button in flash mx and then upload it for the page i am making i always get this white flair above and below the button. I know it has something to do w/ the sizing, But the work area it smaller than the button. So i am somewhat perplexed.
http://www.icebergaz.com/TLCP/TLCP.html
Here is what I am talking about if you can't understand what i am saying.
Thanks

Help Flash Mx Trial-real Thing
i have just had to wipe my computer due to it beaing upraded. and ive lost my version of flash mx that i paid for.
i still have my regestration key.
and a friend gave me his trail version for me to install i thought that after the 30 days you could unlock it by putting in the code.
but this is not the case.
is there something i ca download that will unlock the softwere for me when i put the code in?
cause i dont want to download 65mb on 56k again.

Real Time Audio In Flash MX
Hello,

I have a question regarding embedding sound into a Flash movie. Is it possible to import/embed a real time audio feed into a movie? If it's possible please explain how. For example, if I wanted to embed a feed from Bloomberg online radio network inside a movie, how can this be done? I'm using Flash MX.
Thanks. I appreciate your help.

Convert Real Media To Flash?
Is there any way to convert a small real media or any video file into a flash animation?

Using Real Images And Motion In Flash
i was looking to see if anyone knows of a post about using real images involved with websites. By this, i mean that i have been seeing a lot of sites that have images for navigation or anything else but they move as if they were drawn in flash, they arent blurry or anything.

Real-time Graphs In Flash 5 Or Mx
Hello everyone!

I need some help! I try to find tutorials about makin real-time graphs in flash, like the one seen in this page :

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/Gener...DampedSHM.html

but I couldn't find any info about this!

Does anyone knows how to do this kind of things or knows where's a tutorial for that!

Thanks in advanced!

Chamaelon

Control A Real Lamp With Flash
hi, is it possible to control a real lamp, or sth. else, with flash mx? thank you.....

LOOK Real Drag-Drop In Flash
Problem:
When dragging and dropping in flash from one window [movie clip] to another, the object being moved still retains its association with window one, instead of being re-associated with the window it was dragged into

Solution:
Somewhat tricky recursion, and a lotta thinkin

Check it out:
http://www.artfunction.com/flash/windows.htm
drag the red sqaure from window to window