create gorgeous flash movies & slideshows for your website quickly and easily - without any programming - with toufee's flash maker.
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Extremely Easy
No programming or flash knowledge
required - get started instantly!
Browser Based
Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
No messy downloads or installation
YouTube Friendly
Publish your video directly to website,
blog, YouTube™ or download as SWF
Why to use Toufee?
How To Use Toufee?
Why choose Toufee?
flash websites - Stand out from the crowd in effectively delivering your product pitches and messages interactively with flash movies. Plus, supercharge your traffic by posting your Toufee movies on video sharing sites like YouTube - which are a great source of traffic and can instantly help you reach a huge target audience
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digital storytelling - Toufee is a great tool for digital storytelling because it gives you the ability to have interactive content like images, animations, sounds and videos using which you can greatly condense a story into a matter of few slides that otherwise would take pages to write about.
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flash banners - flash banners are soon replacing traditional image-based ads to become the de facto standard in online advertising. With Toufee, you can create flash banners in less than a minute like this!
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flash intros - Toufee can be a great tool to make your own animated greeting. Or if you have band, wont it be cool if you can add a bit of glamour to your videos? You can add an intro section, subtitle your song with Toufee or create your whole site in flash with Toufee. ( Samples )
flash music bands - With Toufee flash movies, your band’s Facebook profile page is never the same. You can use Toufee flash movie maker to create flash videos that run promotional campaigns on your latest song, run an interactive flash movie quiz about your band, create teaser flash movie presentations about your upcoming projects, add flash intro effects to your song video and more! ( Samples )
inspirational flash movies - Toufee is ideal for creating inspirational flash movies. Your flash presentation can act as a goodwill campaign to spread a social cause - your Toufee movie can be on Tsunami victims, child malnutrition in Africa, or something like some of our awesome users have done here. ( Samples )
Get Started Instantly - No learning curves here because mostly everything in Toufee is done via drag-n-drop. Use our hundreds of pre-made-ready-to-be-applied flash effects and transitions to give the professional flash designers a run for their money. What took days to do in flash now can be done with the click of a mouse in Toufee!
Fast flash movie maker - Your toufee accounts comes bundled with over 127 Effects, 75 Transitions, 23 Filters that you can instantly apply to your flash movie in a single click! You can even mix-n-match our effects and transitions to create your own "custom presets" and create dazzling flash animations in a jiffy!
Import from Flickr, YouTube, etc - Import media from over 20+ online services like Flickr™, Google™, YouTube™, Metacafe™, etc to use in your flash movies.
Need a picture of lightbulb but can't find any? Search our repository of over 5000+ stock photos, sounds and videos and use it in your Toufee flash movie for free!
Support For YouTube – Toufee is the only flash Maker that supports YouTube! Using the just released YouTube API, Toufee flash movies can now be uploaded to YouTube directly! This makes it a perfect way for uses to sell their business and showcase their creations on YouTube.com This is the perfect launchpad for showing off movies to a huge audience!
Standalone SWFs – Some people prefer to view their creations offline (like on a DVD or a presentation where there is no internet). With Toufee you can download your flash movies as SWF files directly to your PC. This allows you to use your flash movies in business websites, corporate presentations, custom courseware and even upload to third-party websites.
Over 175+ Other Features - There are lot of other features like text-to-speech, history management, guided tutorials, etc that we’re leaving out here for the sake of brevity. But you can read more details about them in our site’s Wiki.
Save Time with Toufee - The traditional approach to flash movie making has been to use complicated desktop software which are difficult to learn and require advanced programming skills.
Toufee on the other hand requires absolutely no technical skills, and its so simple to use that you can get started instantly!
Save Money with Toufee - desktop software are costly (e.g. flash CS3 costs over $700!) because of overheads like packaging, training, support, & distribution. Toufee costs only a tiny fraction of this because being an online software we don't incur any such overhead costs and so we can pass all these saving benefits directly to You!
Save Work with Toufee - after spending hundreds of dollars on software you have to spend more on designers. And often times to you are displeased with the final product because the designer just couldn't "get it". Say bye-bye to all those troubles because with Toufee you can now create your own flash movies in less than 2-3 minutes and don't need to spend time or money training designers!
It's Fun! - If you're a creative soul then you'll have a lot of fun using Toufee! Why? Because now you get to spend all of your time focusing on the important design part rather than worrying about the technical nitty-gritty of flash. "We believe that its so addictive that some of our members are making flash movies just because now they can! How else can you explain the fact we have over one million+ Toufee flash movies submitted to our gallery?
When working with flash movies, it is common to create hyperlinks in the form of buttons that when clicked takes users to external websites. However, there are instances when you don't want a button, but instead have any text item clickable. If you're not already aware, Toufee lets you add buttons to your flash movies. Buttons add the interactivity element to your flash movies in the sense that you may jump to a specific section, have the flash movie pause/play at specific times, or eventually open a website link when clicked. This video tutorial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN_FqGlBduA) actually discusses in detail on how to work with buttons in the Flash Builder.
First of all, wish all our Toufee customers and readers of this blog a very Happy and a Prosperous New Year 2012. As I start to think about the first blog entry for the new year, I decided to cover aspects of the Toufee Flash Builder as well as the Flash Apps that are often overlooked. The items discussed below are those that are frequently asked at the Support Desk but do not have any documentation elsewhere on the site. I hope this blog should add more clarity to customers for now.
Recently when working with a customer on a video file issue with the Flash Builder, I noticed something interesting that is worth a mention. When you drag an item on to the Toufee Flash Builder movie maker stage, Toufee adds a default Fade In and Fade Out effects to the item. This goes applies to any item - text, image or video. There is no Fade In/Fade Out effects for Sound items as its logical the flash effects are visual in nature. And one day, one of the customers reported that his video file was not getting started immediately and usually takes a few seconds to start in. I initially didn't realize the Fade In effect myself and found that it could be causing the problem. The Fade In effect duration is nearly 2 seconds so this was the delay customer was referring to. Turning off the setting made the video look much better.
I hope the last post on setting the Flipbook flash movie size helped to clarify on the most basic setting of a Flipbook flash movie. Continuing from where we left off, I'll cover the most important settings of a Flipbook flash movie. These settings determine how your Flipbook functions as well as directly affects the look and feel of your Flipbook.
The Flipbook is a very popular flash application widely used by customers and many flash web designers who use Toufee. We've seen many queries regarding the Flipbook and the intent of this blog article is to cover in detail the basic settings of the flash Flipbook.
Hello everyone. In this article, I'd like to quickly introduce the concept of timing in the new Flash Builder. I'll discuss on how to work with the Timing bar to adjust object timings and explain how it has changed the frame-based approach from the older version to the newer time-line based approach which also for more fluid flash effects.
Before I go ahead with the article, I would request that you take a moment to have a look at the video tutorial that explains about how the new Timing works. Since the tutorial explains most of the stuff, I'll try to focus more on topics not covered in the video tutorial.
Toufee now retains the filename of the uploaded images, which earlier used to be a random name for every uploaded image. This we believe should have brought much relief to our customers who may have had some tough time managing the uploaded images. Why didn't we do this earlier? Well, we should have but we're glad that the issue is fixed for now. The reason that images were originally assigned random names was to prevent users from renaming the images on the UI causing the image references to be lost. However, we did find a better way of managing it while retaining the image file names.
The second big update is that the FLV videos now come up with much better video quality in the. Earlier, FLVs were passed through a video compression phase to ensure that the resulting FLV video size is small. This didn't seem to go well with customers who though that the video quality was being compromised. We thus had removed the video compression for FLV files generated. All FLV files now exported are generated in HD quailty with no loss in the quality as the video compression has been disabled. Note that this is only for the Business Account. The Power Account still has the video compression feature turned ON.
For more than four years now, Toufee has seen three major releases of the flash movie maker application, each being architecturally different while we try to keep the core application simpler and easier to use, yet create flash movies that are powerful and functional. The Flash Builder, the latest in the line of Toufee Flash Movie Maker application, follows the same suit. For a start, one may notice that the new Flash Builder is far simpler by it looks as well as the options/controls in the User Interface (you don't find menus or lots of panels as with the previous version).
The Flash Builder, by far has the best tools to create highly professional flash movies, thanks largely to the re-designed architecture that shifts from a frame-based approach to creating flash movies to the more fluid Timeline or Timing bar that is feature in advanced tools like Adobe Flash. The new Flash Builder allows transitions of the multiple items as smooth as ever, something that was not seen in previous version of the Toufee Flash Movie Maker. The second influential factor that lends the professional touch to creating flash movies is the fail-proof transition effects, devoid of any occasional jerks or jumps that was a noted bug in the older version.
Hello everyone. This post comes after more than a year, quite uncharacteristic of us to have kept the blog silent as still water. While you may already know that we had launched an all new version of Toufee called the Flash Builder and a whole set of additional Flash App tools to go with it, let me try to give a new primer on the Flash Builder just in case you already haven't had a chance to check out.
In this article, I'll quickly walk through the steps involved in downloading your Toufee flash movie as a standalone SWF flash file. Though the process is straightforward, let me show you the various ways you could download the flash movie as a SWF file. Let's begin right away.
I recently came across an issue where Toufee users who use Microsoft Outlook did not find the "Save Target As" option when they right-click the AVI video download link in the email that they receive after their flash movie is converted to video. The reason being that the "Save Target As" option is only available if you access your email via a web client (typically via your browser). The workaround however is this:
Save the following code as a HTML file. Open Notepad, paste the code and select File -> Save As option and enter "AVI_download_script.html" (with quotes)
We're sometimes hit with questions from our users (many of them flash designers and advanced flash users themselves) that lead us to think how customers are using Toufee Flash Movie Maker to create complex flash movies that we never though of. This post is the result of a recent query from a customer who designs flash websites with Toufee. This customer had a specific requirement where he wanted to delay the start of background music that is added to the flash movie. Though there is no option that does this straightaway, Toufee Flash Movie Maker with its hundreds of features certainly provides workarounds that can come in handy.
If you had used the Paused at Start option for your Toufee flash movies, and if you had tried to download this flash movie as SWF file to your PC and play it back, you'll notice that the "Paused at Start" option does not work anymore - the SWF file of your flash movie would just start to play. Why is it so? This is by design. The reason being when you download a flash movie as SWF, then most often then not you would want to have the SWF play automatically. That makes perfect sense. But there are instances where you might want the "Paused at Start" option to stay with your SWF flash movies as well. Here is how you do it:
1) We'll first create a copy of the original flash movie. We'll be working with this newly created copy (and not the original project...nope!). Follow the below KB article to create a copy of a Toufee flash movie project:
Not many customers might know that Toufee support publishing of its flash movies on websites that use SSL. When you try to publish a Toufee movie HTML code, you might encounter the following warning message:
create gorgeous flash movies & slideshows for your website quickly and easily - without any programming - with toufee's flash maker.
