I’ve been working on this project for months and I am so happy to say that, after much blood sweat and tears, the Flash Video Kit is officially announced and will be shipping very soon.

The team is so proud of this kit release. Customers who purchase Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional between now and September 30, 2004 will receive the video kit which includes:
- An extension for Dreamweaver that allows any user to very simply add Flash video to their web site using one of two professionally designed player skins.
- A copy of Sorenson Squeeze 4 Lite for compressing videos to Flash Video (FLV) files
- A free 15-day trial of the Flash Video Streaming Service Lite powered by Vitalstream
- An extensive video primer whitepaper

If you already own Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional you can purchase the video kit for $49 starting September 1, 2004.

If you’re new to Flash video, check out the Flash video learner’s guide.

As soon as I get a chance, I’ll try to post an example video built with the extension.

During a customer visit in Tokyo today a Flash user requested the ability to have Flash automatically save all of his open .as files when he hits the “Test Project” button. I wrote the feature down thinking, “Geez - how’d we miss that one?” Upon return to my hotel room to fire up Flash, I discovered that we didn’t actually miss that one - we just burried it in the preferences.

Go to Edit > Preferences and select the “Editing” tab. Towards the bottom you can check the option to, “Save project files on test project or publish project”.

Phew!

BTW - It’s becoming increasingly clear to me, during our numerous customer visits in planning for 8Ball, that we don’t do a very good job of surfacing many of the very useful features and prefs in Flash. We’ll see what we can do about that in the future. Any suggestions are welcomed.

I just learned of this - thanks to Robert Hoekman Jr. If you want to move the symbol-editing breadcrumb trail/stage zoom drop-down from above the timeline to it’s old position of below the timeline, just hold down ALT+SHIFT and Double-Click on the breadcrumb trail.
Default:

Alternative:

Thanks Robert!