Q&A: Are there any good freeware programs for making flash movies?

Question by helpmeout: Are there any good freeware programs for making flash movies?

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Answer by two pi
There are a few tools in the open source community. None are ready for prime time, but you may want to play around with them…

ajax animator
http://antimatter15.110mb.com/ajaxanimat…
is a very interesting online flash builder. It supports basic frame-based animation and works much like early versions of Flash. It can save swf files, and it’s completely online, so you don’t have to install anything. It doesn’t support actionScript, but it does have some other interesting features.

pencil
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil…
Is a very interesting open-source tool that specializes in creating flash animations. It looks quite powerful, but it can be a bit tricky to use.

flash develop
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community
is a very interesting programmer’s IDE which lets you design flash content with code. It goes especially well with the Flex compiler, allowing you to build complete flash applications without Flash. It is a programmer’s tool, though, and won’t make much sense if you don’t already know how to program.

swfTools
http://www.swftools.org/
is an interesting set of command line tools that allow you to quickly convert various types of media (images, audio, video) into swf format. Not pretty, but very effective.
Hope this helps!

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