Flash for presentations tutorial

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This is part of the Flash tutorials

Introduction

Learning goals
  • Learn how to make presentations for talks (instead of PPT)
  • Also includes a few hints about product presentations
Flash level
  • CS3 /CS4
Prerequisites
  • Drawing and basic interactivity
Moving on
Level and target population
  • Beginners
Quality
  • Not done yet, therefore lower than low.

To create presentations in Flash there are several options:

  • Use Flash CS3/4
  • Create with presentation software, e.g. PPT and then convert to Flash
  • Use software (including online) presentation software tools that compile to *.swf

In this tutorial we only will focus on the first option, i.e. use Flash to create something that is different and better. See the links section for some conversion or Flash creating presentation software

Links

Software

Special purpose presentation software that compiles to Flash, none of these has been tested, so there is no endorsement. Also, this is by no means complete...

See also: presentation software and Multimedia presentation

Online slide makers
  • Sliderocket A web 2.0 application. Basic use is free. Commercial off-line player also available.
  • Qarbon Composica Web-based. Commercial (e.g. $1500/year - 2008).
Free (or half-free) off- line tools
  • Powerbullet Presenter ( freeware )
  • Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Windows/Linux
Commercial off-line tools
Free PPT to Flash *.swf
Commercial PPT to Flash *.swf
Other converters
  • SWF Tools is a collection of SWF manipulation and

creation utilities written by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm. It is released under the GPL. Some supported formats: PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WAV. Also includes scripting and swf manipulation/combination tools.

PPT to Flash *.fla
  • I didn't find any, and that's about the only kind of tool I'd find interesting ...
  • Of course, one solution is to produce a *.swf and then use a decompiler. It is also possible to load the *.swf into the library and then use the graphics.

Examples

(mostly web sites that demo Flash presentations)