Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Simple flash movie creator

Creating a Flash movie is not for the faint-hearted. (Flash in this case does not mean fancy - it's short for Shockwave Flash, which is a movie format used to produce streaming videos, animations for websites, and so on.) You can use a Flash movie to create more complex titles for your home videos, or to build advertisements for a website. It's only limited by your imagination. Most of them are created using the Adobe Flash program (which was originally developed by Macromedia before Adobe bought that company out). But it's hideously expensive, and very difficult to learn. However, I have just discovered and have been trying out a much simpler program called Powerbullet, which has the added advantage of being free. Because it's not as complex as the Adobe version, it has some limitations, but nonetheless it seems to be capable of some quite good results. It talks about being able to create multi-page presentations, but I haven't plumbed that far yet - still getting to grips with the basics.

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