The second version of Creative MovieFX has its foundations in a product you may know and like – Creative MovieFX, the ActionScript 2.0 version (please click here to read the documentation for Creative MovieFX v1). However, the product has evolved a lot referring both to the visual aspect as well as the functional one.
Creative MovieFX’s main use-case is to create an effect – transition or in-place – and place it over a movie clip. This becomes very simple and intuitive with the new Time Manager available in Creative MovieFX; practically, the effect’s structure is visible from the beginning and through all the effect configuration process. Three types of effects can be applied on a movie clip: In and Out Effects which create transitions into and from the stage and Wait Effects which animate the movie clip in its place, between the In and Out Effects.
New to the second version of Creative MovieFX are also the dynamic effects or the actions triggered by the mouse behavior. Effects which create a button appearance are available and actions like adding sound, moving along the timeline, adding an URL or executing a function are only a few clicks away.
In order to conclude the visual enhancements available in Creative MovieFX, filters have been added to the component. Filters like drop shadow, blur and many more are easily configurable from the product’s interface and the visual effect obtained is great.
Creative MovieFX is fully configurable from its interface and requires absolutely no coding knowledge.
However, for the users that prefer instantiating and configuring directly from ActionScript, there is an ActionScript dictionary available in the documentation. Practically, this dictionary transports all the Creative MovieFX’s functions – available in the interface – in the Actions panel. Furthermore, perhaps one of the most important improvements in Creative MovieFX when it comes to coding is that the component is ActionScript 3.0 compliant, which gives a major boost to the component’s robustness and performance.
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