Here’s a little sneak preview of a new extension that I’ve been working on:

UPDATE (9/6/2010): I’ve added thumbnail previews of the mouth shapes to the SmartMouth extension. I’m hoping the extension will be ready for release by the end of this month.

I’ve had a number of users contacting me regarding ways to learn Adobe Flash Professional. There are a lot of great resources available for users interested in animation, design, and development in Flash.  Whether you’re an advanced user, or totally new to Flash, there are tons of resources available. Over the years, I’ve read dozens of books and visited hundreds of sites. So, I decided to put together a single page with many of my favorite Flash learning links. Enjoy!

FrameSync is a Flash extension, originally released nearly 2 years ago, that allows you rapidly lip-sync your characters with an audio track. With this newest release, you can sync your characters even faster and easier than before.

In the process of putting together a Flash CS5 animation book with Chris Georgenes, I started looking at new features that could be added to FrameSync based on the updated extensibility layer in Flash Professional CS5. In addition to that, I had a few requests from users about displaying label-less keyframes in the FrameSync panel. While I was under the hood making these changes, I made a few other improvements as well. Hope you enjoy!

New Features!

The new features for version 2.0 are as follows…

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Do you wish something worked better (or faster) in your favorite Adobe application?

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Here’s a sneak peek of the new version of  the FrameSync Flash extension. These new features should save you even more time!

Sorry that the audio quality is so low. The video was recorded in a hurry. Now, back to work…

UPDATE (8/16/10): These features are now available.

Getting bored with this non-comparison. Drew a picture:

If you want more of this “debate”:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjIsL8qwNw
• http://www.flashstreamworks.com/archive.php?post_id=1272747220
• http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2010/05/h264-is-a-codec-flash-is-a-platform-one-cant-kill-off-the-other.html
• http://chargedweb.com/labs/2010/05/03/apple-truth-revealed/
• http://ntt.cc/2010/05/02/jinnis-thoughts-on-flashstrongly-recommend-to-read.html
• http://www.blixtsystems.com/2010/04/apples-master-plan/

Version 1.1.0 now has the ability to batch-merge textframes within every page of the current document. I had several requests for something like this (including from a recent donor). Here it is! The download links above have been updated.

The new version now has the “Apply to” and “Ignore locked layers” as shown in the image below.

Note that any warning messages about having too few textframes selected have been delayed until after the dialog box appears to reflect the new options.

Downloads of the new version are available on the original post.

Want a good way to move your extension request to the top of the list?