Flash Publishing Tools

Aleo Flash Intro Banner Maker enables you to create Flash intros, banners or ecards without the need for any Flash programming. It offers a step-by-step wizard interface with real-time preview of the banner in progress. You can choose from an arsenal of ready-to-use animated background and text effects and customize them to your preference. You can further adjust font styles, banner size, border, fill style, preloader and other properties. The result can be saved to SWF, GIF or AVI movie and the HTML code copied to the clipboard.

Flash Video Studio allows you to convert most video files into Macromedia Flash SWF and FLV format. It includes video editing features to add special effects (sepia, motion blur etc.), as well as watermarks using text or image overlays. You can also trim the video and add a secondary audio stream for background music, using WAV, MP3 or WMA files. Flash Video Studio then creates the complete Flash file and HTML code for publishing, using a choice of player control skins and custom navigation options. Additional features include batch processing, automatic FTP upload, real time bandwidth and file size estimation, video adjustments and more. Flash Video Studio supports AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG and Quicktime formats.

Banner Maker Pro for Flash enables you to create Flash banner ads of various sizes. It offers a step-by-step interface and real-time preview of your design. You can add text, shapes and images, and then animate the entire banners from a selection of pre-defined animation effects. The program supports all installed system font types as well as drop shadow effects and transparency. The elements can be arranged on the banner by dragging them into place. Once you have finished the design, you can save the banner as .swf file, generate the HTML code to include it in your pages, and use the included FTP tool to upload it to your server.

Demo Builder is a tool to create interactive Flash movies that allow you to show how applications and systems work with the help of interactive tutorials. It works by taking a series of editable screen captures of a specified application or window, and automatically combines them into an annotated Flash movie clip with moving cursors and popup hints. The animation is ready-to-use almost immediately after capture, however you can further customize the movie by editing, and adding annotations, highlights, visual effects and more. The result can be viewed in virtually any browser, and also distributed as standalone EXE file with built-in viewer, or as a sequence of images. Additional features include full-motion recording, auto-annotation of activities, built-in audio editor, FTP upload and more.

Aleo Flash MP3 Player Builder enables you to convert MP3 and WAV files to Flash and publish them with a Flash player interface on your website. The program offers a variety of customizable player skins to choose from, as well as the option to simply convert your media to SWF, without the use of a Flash player interface. Flash MP3 Player Builder creates all the SWF files and HTML code for you, no Flash experience is needed.

Alligator Flash Designer (formerly Selteco Flash Designer) enables you to create interactive Flash animations for your Web site with minimum skills required. You can animate images, texts or shapes and create a Flash movie with added sound and transition effects. The program provides more than 130 built-in animation effects including Fade, Zoom, Rotate, Fly and more. It also offers basic editing tools to modify any image, resize it, add objects etc. A preview browser allows you to display your animation exactly as it will appear on the web before saving it. The program can export all the HTML code necessary to integrate the Flash file with your web page.

Sothink SWF Easy (formerly Sothink Glanda) is an easy and fast way to create Flash effects with no need for Flash design experience and art design skills. You can easily create a wide variety of Flash animations such as Flash buttons with mouseover sound, navigation panels, graphic logos and splash pages for your web pages with a few mouse clicks. The WYSIWYG design window and build-in Flash player help you to create Flash movies from pre-made effects that are included with the software. All effects can be customized by replacing shapes, adding text, link, sound (*.wav or *.mp3) or a background image (*.jpg), etc. Sothink SWF Easysupplies up to 199 ready-to-use flash buttons and abundant shapes, images and audios.

FlashSlider allows to create Flash (swf) image slideshows from your pictures. You can customize the size, position the images and choose from many transition and motion effects that can be applied to each image. You can drag images to change the order in which they are shown, set the background color and add an URL that will be launched when the slideshow is clicked upon. FlashSlider creates the HTML code and .swf file for you to upload to your web site.

CoffeeCup Flash Website Font enables you to display fonts on your website, even if they are not installed on the visitor`s computer - without the need for any images (as it is commonly done). It uses a technique that replaces certain text elements in your HTML with Flash elements, enabling you to dynamically display fonts that are not installed on the visitor`s computer. You can choose from any of the included fonts and associate it with an HTML element (e.g H1, H2 etc.) to automatically render the text within those elements in the specified font. You can define the size and color of the font as well as a background color and link/hover colors to be used within anchor tags. CoffeeCup Flash Website Font will create the CSS, JavaScript and Flash files for you and provide you with the code to insert into your pages, and it can automatically upload the necessary files to your web server.

Flash Music Studio enables you to convert music files (MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG) into Adobe Flash format, and post them on your web site. You can choose from a variety player formats that allow users to start/stop the playback, or select from a list of songs. The designs include iPod look-alikes, media player displays with equalizer and other designs, each of them can be customized. If you want to protect your own audio creation, you can also overlay each track with a sound watermark. Flash Music Studio can create the complete HTML output for you and also upload the files to your FTP server.

Flash Fluid Effect enables you to convert an image (e.g a logo or photo) to SWF format and apply one of 12 Macromedia flash animation effect such as melt, vaporize, warp, blur, chaos and others. You can customize the effect by adjusting some parameters, preview the animation, and publish the result as SWF file with optional HTML code. No Flash scripting required.

SWF Toolbox enables you to convert Macromedia Flash Files (SWF) into standalone projector files (EXE), AVI movies, animated GIFs or frame-by-frame JPEG/GIF/BMP image series. The Advanced Projector option allows you to fully customize the projector with custom title, splash screen, optional expiration date, icon, file version, right-click options and other details, and can automatically install Flash OCX if not present on the system.

Swiff Chart is a tool to create eye-catching animated charts in Macromedia Flash format that can be published on the web and viewed in virtually any browser. You can simply paste your Data Series from your spreadsheet or import them as a formatted text file, apply a predefined Style, adjust parameters and animations and instantly export your chart as a Flash file, ready to upload to your server.

Sothink SWF Decompiler enables you to convert SWF to FLA, and capture, browse and decompile Shockwave Flash movies (.swf files). It can extract sounds, images, movie clips from Flash movies. In addition, the program can decompile the action scripts in a Flash movie and turn them into neat and readable code.

IncrediFlash Intro and Banner Studio enables you to create custom Flash banners and intros without the need for any Flash programing or experience. The program offers a WYSIWYG interface that allows you to select backgrounds, arrange text and select from more than 100 animated text effects to make your banner come alive. You can fully customize the text font, color and sizes, add multiple text segments with individual delays and effects and choose from a variety of customizable background styles to get you started (or use your own images). The finished animation can be previewed and saved as project for future modifications. You can also add background music, even with special effects, along with a small button that allows the user to turn it off. Other features include optional preloader animation, click actions for background and text, real-time preview and more. The trial version does not allow you to publish your creation, but you can preview it for testing.

CoffeeCup Web JukeBox lets you create and insert cool looking MP3 jukeboxes into your existing web design. It offers 20 different Flash designs to choose from, ranging from simple buttons to iPod-style player interfaces that list your selected songs and offer standard playback controls. You can load the player with MP3 files from your hard drive, or use the integrated CD ripper to extract the songs from an Audio CD. The program generates all the necessary code to paste into your HTML design, and also uploads the required files to your web account, using the built-in FTP transfer tool.

Flash Decompiler enables you to easily extract sounds, images, videos, shapes, frames, morphs, fonts, texts, buttons, sprites and ActionScripts from any Flash (SWF). It offers an item-by-item preview, user-friendly interface and integrated player to view the original Flash file, as well as individual components. Additional features include general resource and file statistics, customizable interface layouts and more.

Flash Optimizer enables you to to compress your SWF files by up to 60-70%, using algorithms of vectors, shapes, morphing, Z-buffer, fonts and other optimizations. The program offers several presets, ranging from basic compression without quality loss to strong compression with some quality loss. You can preview the result side-by-side in the built-in player, and also frame-by-frame with zooming options. The parameters of the optimization process can also be customized if needed, to achieve the results you want. The results may vary depending on the Flash file content, we had some great results with more than 50% reduction, and others with just a few percent.

SWFBanner enables you to create Flash banners and intro screen without the need for any Flash programming skills. You can use custom fonts, fading background colors or images, and combine them with a set of ready-to-use animation effects. The program supports multiple scenes per banner, text paragraphs, custom banner sizes, and compressed Flash output. You can preview the Flash banner as you go and export the results to Adobe Flash movie, GIF image or AVI video via the included Publishing Wizard.

Astro enables you to create cool Flash text effects, without the need for any Flash authoring experience. It comes with more than 350 ready-to-use and categorized effects, that can be combined with background effects or pictures, sound effects (included), as well as pre-designed animations. Astro goes way beyond simple text effects and lets you create complete text effect movies that can be used standalone or imported into other Flash projects.

SWFKit lets you create 32-bit Windows applications from Flash, using a step-by-step interface and FFish script (an easy to learn scripting language). With a little bit of practice and some script learning, you can create applications that can access databases, perform realtime communication by socket, send and receive email, read and write files, access the system registry, play and record multimedia, embed ActiveX controls and more. Furthermore, you can make the interface of just about any shape and design, add animations and use other features supported by Flash. Most of the interface base features and options, as well as the installer are configured from the step-by-step wizard, the actual program actions however need to be written in FFish script. There are several examples available as well as detailed documentation. Additional features include optional shareware expiration, complete installer, screen saver creation and more. If you always wanted to write a program, but didn`t want to go through the trouble of learning a full-blown programming language, give this one a try!

Create Flash animations for web pages. Includes vector painting with feathering, gradients, textures, text effects, 3D effects, shadows, bitmaps, sounds, morphing, and buttons. A very powerful and easy to use animation tool. Has many advanced features such as transformable layers within layers, keyframe based animation and morphing, and a programmable Javascript interface Flash animations are the new interactive animation standard for web pages. Perfect for animated web buttons.

123 Flash Menu enables you to create professional looking Flash menus for web sites, using ready-to-use template designs that can be customized to your preference. The program supports vertical and horizontal designs and includes dynamic effects like animations, sounds, gradient and transparency. An integrated preview shows your menu as you design it, and lets you test the links in a browser window. Additional features include support for CSS scripting, Flash compression and custom templates. 123 Flash Menu is easy to use and does not require any Flash skills. The trial version includes about 20 or so templates, the registered version adds an additional 100 templates.

CoffeeCup Firestarter is a fast and easy way to create Flash Effects for your web site. It quickly creates complex text and image effects with just a few clicks of the mouse. You can make Flash Intro pages, navigation systems, graphic logos, or whatever you want. Firestarter has over 50 built in ready to use effects like Assemble, Explode, Fade, and more, a collection of cool mp3 Sounds, a built in Sound Editor for fades, echo, and reverse, plus it s all in an attractive, easy to use interface. Firestarter is extremely easy to use, it allows you to create an combine an unlimited number of effects. Since you can customize almost every aspect, you are not in any way limited to the included presets, but can create completely original animations. Also supports Movie Transparency and provides an ActionScript timeline for greater movie control.

SWF Extractor allows you to extract and save all resources contained in a Flash (.swf) file. You can preview images and sounds from a thumbnail explorer, and then simply extract all or just selected items. The program supports drag and drop into other applications and also integrates with Windows Explorer. Flash movies can also be previewed from within the program. SWF Extractor fully supports Macromedia Flash 3, 4, 5 and MX Movie files, as well as all supported resources.

CoffeeCup Web Calendar enables you to create a Flash based web calendar that you can publish on your website. The WYSIWYG interface allows you to choose from different background images and customize the size colors of the calendar display. You can add single or recurring events, and also automatically populate the calendar with U.S holidays. CoffeeCup Web Calendar comes with a built-in FTP uploader and does not require any HTML or Flash experience.

Amara Flash News Ticker allows you to create smooth scrolling news combined with text effects, using an easy to use interface, that lets you customize the appearance, add headlines and generates the HTML code and .SWF Flash file for you. The ticker can be customized in size, color, scrolling speed and font, and you can save your settings as templates. The output can be previewed with the built-in viewer or launched in your browser.

Mix-FX is a Flash text Effects and Flash Button creator that lets you create fast loading, stunning text effects and buttons in just minutes. With Mix-FX, you can create hundreds of different effect combinations by using the supplied templates and combine them to your preference and further customize color and appearance. The finished animation is ready to use on your web site or can also be loaded into Flash, PowerPoint, or into your video editing software. Mix-FX offers a full preview, allowing you to see the results of your changes immediately as you combine foreground effects with background effects, movements etc. The program is very easy to use and requires no experience with Flash or graphics design.

Anim-FX allows you to create animated text effects, such as intros, splash screens and banners. It includes a wide range of animation templates that enable you to quickly create cool effects. You can include text and background animation with up to 5 lines of text. You can customize text and background colors, positioning of the text, specify URLs to link to and more.

Sothink SWF Quicker lets you author Flash (*.swf) with a friendly user interface and plenty of useful features. It supports shape design, motion tween creation , guideline, mask layer, stream and event sound, frame label, setting movieclip instance name and more. The program includes more than 80 ready-to-use animation effects, which can be further customized and saved as new effects. Additionally, multibytes language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) text is supported perfectly. Sothink SWF Quicker also offers the capability to import SWF files, using an intelligent motion analysis system and full action support. The imported movie can be modified and generated back to a new SWF movie without losing any functions of the original one. Additional features include an ActionScript generator, symbol library and more.

Tanida Quiz Builder enables you to create educational quizzes in Flash format that can be used on a website, as standalone EXE file or Word document. It includes a variety of answer schemes, including true or false, multiple choice, drag and drop matching, fill in the blank and others. The program provides an easy-to-use interface to design the quiz and does not require any Flash or programming knowledge. You can customize several aspects of the quiz appearance, add images to decorate the questions and preview the quiz at any time. Tanida Quiz Builder supports score reporting (AICC, SCORM) as well as posting to server scripts, user logins and more.

SWF Maestro EXE enables you to compile your Flash applications into a standalone executable that can be run on any Windows computer. It will check if the Flash player is installed and if not, it can download the player from Adobe or install a player supplied by you. The program can compile a single SWF file, or an entire directory structure including the Flash file and any additional resources. Your compiled Flash application application can run with fixed window size or in full-screen mode, and you can customize the right-click menu, application title and window appearance. Other features include support for transparency, .dat files to store data, custom icon and more. SWF Maestro EXE does not extract your files to a temporary directory when the compiled application is run but keeps them inside the executable at all times.

Amara Flash Photo Animation enables you to create virtual tours, using regular photos and a combination of panning and zooming effects that create a movie-like effect and allow the user to `walk through` each picture. You can combine multiple images into a slideshow, add URLs and more. The program offers an easy to use WYSIWYG interface that lets you design the zoom effects using simple mouse clicks and drag and drop to manipulate the effects. Additional features include optional background sound, customizable output size and background, 360 degree panning, transition time control and more.

Amara Flash Slide Show Creator allows you to easily create photo slideshows in Flash (.swf) format that can be published to the web or used as .swf file for any other purpose. It supports several transition effects as well as background music in mp3 format (44,22 and 11 khz). The slideshow can have a custom color, image or transparent background and each image can be associated with an URL that is launched when clicked on. The program is easy to use, and requires no further knowledge; the code to insert into your web site is automatically generated and can be copied to the clipboard.

Amara Flash Menu Maker allows you to create a Flash menu for your web site fast and easily. You can choose from a scrolling menu with sub menus, customize the size and colors and also add optional sound effects for mouseover actions and alpha blending. The program does not require any Flash or programming skills, and includes several button styles (3D, glossy, 2D, flat etc.) to get you started. Furthermore, you can import your own background picture, background music, use custom fonts and more. Amara Flash Menu Maker currently only offers one style of menu (horizontal). The program is fairly easy to use, however does not include any documentation.

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder allows you to create text based Flash banners and intros. You can add multiple text items, each with individual effect, timing and text style, and also link them to URL links and Target Frames. The program includes ready-to-use text effects that can be customized in some parameters, and easily used for your designs. Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder provides 3 step WYSIWYG interface with built-in preview. Does not require any Flash skills.

KoolMoves is a web animation software that creates Flash movies and frames for animated gifs. It offers fully-featured drawing tools as well as the ability to import SWF Flash Movie files, FLV Flash Video files, vector clipart, MP3 and wav audio. KoolMoves can be used to create navigation systems, splash pages, flying logos, text effects, character animation, transition effects, drop shadows and much more. Shape fills include color gradient and bitmap. You can select from libraries of 67 action script based text effects, 28 web interfaces, 259 clip art items, 13 animated clip art movies, 70 buttons specially designed for Flash movies and more than 100 text effects templates. KoolMoves makes it easy to create a Flash movie - all you need is an idea. The program was designed by a professional animator to deliver powerful functionality with an easy to use interface.

Panorama2Flash enables you to convert your existing panorama images into into virtual Flash panoramas. You can process a single panorama or batch convert multiple images at once. The program creates the complete HTML code and SWF files for you. Panorama2Flash supports spherical and cylindrical panoramic images in jpg, png, tga, tif and bmp formats.

Fun SoundPlayer Maker allows you to add a button to your site, that will initiate a Flash audio stream when clicked on. You can choose from several ready-to-use templates; all you have to do is select the MP3 file to be streamed, and generate the SWF file and HTML code, ready to be uploaded or inserted.

SWFSlide enables you to create a Flash slideshow from your images, complete with optional background music, voice narration and transition effects. You can choose to include player control that allow the user to navigate the slideshow, customize the colors and also add a text overlay to each image. The result can be previewed and published to SWF file, web page with embedded SWF or as standalone Flash player (.exe file) that can be shared by email or other means. SWFSlide is easy to use and does not require any HTML or Flash experience.

SWFText a tool to create basic Flash text animations. It offers 160+ text effects and more than 40 background effects, that can be further customized in font, text color, and layout. The program is easy to use and all you have to do is enter your text, and select the desired effects. The program provides a real-time preview of the selected effects. The result can be published as single .swf file or complete web page.

FlasherShop is a quick and easy way to create Flash animations using several predefined templates. You use text, pictures and sound in your Flash animation and preview your animation without launching a browser or external player. In addition, FlasherShop can convert SWF to EXE or EXE to SWF and convert your Flash movies into custom screensavers.

IntroWizard Flash Website Builder enables you to create a complete website, based on Flash technology. It provides a collection of templates to choose from and a step-by-step wizard to fill in the blanks with your custom content. In addition to the Flash file, it also creates a simple text-only version, which can help with search engine indexing of your site. The program allows you to create a fancy looking website in very little time and without the use of any HTML, however it is also very limited in what it can do, and mostly useful for pages with very basic text content.

ViewletACE enables you to create online quizzes and surveys, using a WYSIWYG interface. The quizzes can contain sound, images and Flash movies, and provide real time reporting to the Viewlet Central server or your server, if it is set up for SCORM or AICC compatibility. The quizzes are published in Flash format, and can be customized with CSS. The easiest way to publish your quiz is via the integrated upload to the Qarbon server, however this requires a monthly payment of $20 or more, unless you want to use the free starter account option which displays banner ads along with your quiz. ViewletAce makes it easy to create and publish your surveys or quizzes, however self-publishing requires extensive zit knowledge and the easy way (via the integrated upload) can come rather expensive.

CoffeeCup RSS News Flash enables you to publish a customized news ticker on your site, using Flash. You can choose from more than 200 online news sources, including CNN, BBC, New York Times etc. as well as public service announcements, software updates, humor, and more. You can simply select the sources to be included to customize the news feed for your audience. In addition, you can also add your own news items, for example site announcements, custom story links or similar, or import an OPML file. CoffeeCup News Flash does not require any Flash experience, it will generate the complete code and Flash (.swf) file for you, and even upload it to your FTP server.

Flash Jigsaw Producer lets you create a custom online Flash puzzle using any JPG image as a base. You can customize the size of the puzzle, the pieces as well as the shapes. The user can drag and drop the pieces in the browser to solve the puzzle; and once solved, he will be sent to an URL you specify. The program is easy to use, just select the JPG image and use sliders to preview the puzzle, then generate the Flash and HTML code.

123 Flash Compressor is an easy to use tool to reduce the size of Flash (.swf) files by up to 70%, without losing quality. The program requires no technical knowledge, all you have to do is select the files to be compressed (a backup of the original is kept) and click a button. We did not encounter any 70% savings during our review but several 30% reductions, which can be significant with larger files. 123 Flash Compressor works with Flash 3, 4, 5 and Flash MX.

Flash Voice Buttons allows you to record audio from your microphone and publish it on your web site via Flash (.swf) file. The program includes button designs and graphics that you can use to publish the audio. The program is easy to use, just select a button style, record your audio and generate the HTML file that includes the Flash code and button graphics. The rial version allows you to preview the results, but you cannot save the SWF file.