The creative uses for alpha channel video aren’t limited to your local weatherman. In this Basix installment I’m going to show you how to pull a key in After Effects CS4, how to create an alpha channel video in the Adobe Media encoder, how to use that video in Flash and then we’ll wind up the lesson looking at ways to creatively use alpha channel video in Flash.

Ready? Let’s get started..

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There are two good reasons for keeping your Flash project organized: first, it makes it easier to package up your output files for deployment; second, it stops coders and designers getting in each other’s way!

In this Quick Tip screencast, Daniel Apt demonstrates how to set up your project’s folders, and shows three standard ways of doing so.

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The Flixel game engine aims is to take the donkey work out of building AS3 games, leaving you with all the fun stuff and saving heaps of time!

During Part 1 of this screencast, Shane covered the basics of Flixel and began work on his brilliant 8-bit style shoot ‘em up. In this second part he takes things further, creating enemies, backgrounds, explosions, the health monitor, the playing arena, other assets and more. The end result is well worth following along for, even for the non-gamers amongst you..

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The Flixel game engine is an opensource ActionScript 3.0 framework written by Adam Atomic. Its aim is to take the donkey work out of building AS3 games, leaving you with all the fun stuff and saving heaps of time!

In this, the first in a series of two screencasts, Shane Johnson takes you through the basics of Flixel, explaining how to build an awesome shoot ‘em up game from scratch.

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Time to implement labels and navigation to our Slideshow Application. We’ll go over a lot in this third and final part of the series. This screencast is almost one and a half hours in total, so sit back, open up your files from Part 2 and let’s dig in!

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In this, Tom’s first screencast for Flashtuts+, he takes you camping with him to Northern Ontario. To add an extra touch of atmosphere, he demonstrates applying a moody rain storm effect to lake Obatanga – all without a single line of ActionScript.

During this screencast you’ll be taken through working with a range of Adobe CS applications including Fireworks, After Effects, SoundBooth and (of course) Flash.

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During its first two months, Part 1 of Pierre’s slideshow screencast pulled in over 30,000 unique pageviews, making it the most frequently visited post on Flashtuts+ to date. The comments and requests came flooding in, so back by popular demand, here’s Part 2!

Read on to see what’s in store during this, the second of three installments.

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Those of you who’ve already downloaded the Flashtuts+ freebie XMLLoader Class 3.0 will know what a handy tool it can be. In this screencast, its author Clemente Gomez will take you through some features of the XMLLoader Class, building a useful multi-RSS reader in the process. Make some time, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy..

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Flash will work neatly in combination with the Twitter API to create a Twitter widget for any webpage. Follow Shane Johnson (@ultravisual) as he demonstrates building an interface, pulling in specific XML data and tackling cross-domain policy issues..

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In this tutorial FlashDen Top 100 author flashjunkie shows you how to create a slick Flash video player without typing a single line of code. The video player allows you to pause, play, scrub through video and adjust volume. We hope you enjoy this screencast tutorial!

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