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Flash MX 2004 will be available in September.
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Timeline effects
You can apply Timeline effects to any object on the Stage to
quickly add transitions and animations such as fade ins, fly-ins,
blurs, and spins. If you are familiar with javascript, these
timeline effects are powerful as it allows you to customize
your own variations using the JSAPI that is provided in the
Flash Pro version.
The good: Easy to create, with a right
click you can create and modify the effects.
The bad: Once you created an effect you
cannot customize the effects in the symbol or it would
lose it's configuration properties.
Here are some review of the nice or useful effects you can achieve.
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How to create an explosion
1. First select a graphic which is freshly created. They cannot be
a symbol.
2. Then once it is highlighted, right click (MAC: shift+click) to
select under Timeline Effects>Effects>Explode
That's it you just wait a few seconds while it generates the graphics.
Click here
to see how the effect looks like.
Blur
One of my favourite effect would be the blur tool, this used to take
alot of effort to create if you do not know actionscript, but now
you can create it within seconds! Click
here to see how the effect looks like.

Copy to Grid
This tool can often be used to duplicate symbols in an orderly grid
manner to your screen as many as you like. However do note that it
slows down the more you generate.
Distributed duplicate
This filter follows a direction you set, it's like onion skinning
coming into the live screen. Click
here to see how the effect looks like.

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