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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 ) |
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flash music bands - With Toufee flash movies, your band’s MySpace 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 ) |
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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 ) |
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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! |
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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! |
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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! |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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! |
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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! |
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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? |
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| Hot out of Toufee's Blog! |
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| Nov-5th | | The word flash has always been synonymous with lightning and thundering and the advent of flash movies has brought a similar revolution in the cyber world. Flash movies have gained an immense popularity among web designers and the public equally. Why? Flash software enables you to create animations alongside interactive content and this feature creates a movie like feeling for the viewers.
Flash is an application that works on a multilevel platform. It is consistent across all platforms and browsers and any movie created in Flash will appear the same on all browsers and platforms - all that is required is the correct plug-in, which is really not a Herculean task. If the plug-in is not in built with the browser, it can be downloaded for free.
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| | Nov-2nd | |
Ever since flash was developed, it has served as an alternative to expensive video as an eye-catching way to present images and ideas, especially for web audiences. However, the process of creating flash movies or animation has always been the exclusive domain of professional programmers and multimedia artists. In addition, the software needed to make these flash movies were generally expensive and too complicated for the average computer user to master.
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| | Oct-19th | | Toufee has launched a new licensing program that allows educational institutions access its online flash movie maker software. With the new licensing, academic institutions can use Toufee for interactive learning and for developing learning content.
Toufee, the online flash movie maker application has come up with a new licensing program that will allow educational institutions to have access to the Toufee flash movie maker application. Under the new licensing program, academic institutions can signup for bulk licenses at a highly subsided pricing. Called the Toufee Academic Account, this new account licensing will allow use of all basic features of Toufee flash movie maker application that will allow educators and students to use Toufee to create flash movies quickly and easily.
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| | Oct-19th | | In today's highly competitive and fast paced environment of online marketing and website promotion, everyone needs to market and advertise their websites in order to reach the right target customers. Flash banners are one of the best marketing tools available for this purpose. A flash banner is a new form of online advertising which is quickly replacing traditional marketing method. Flash banners are designed to attract visitors to the advertiser's website, thus increasing exposure of the website. Flash banners are embedded in various websites, just like billboards that we can see on high-rise buildings or television advertisements that we see in between our favorite shows. Flash banners are popular amongst giant websites, such as Microsoft and Nokia.Traditionally banners have been created using GIF files. But Flash banners have been proven to return better results than animated gifs, especially in displaying advertisements. Flash banners are generally smaller and they can be used to show videos and sounds. This certainly improves the visibility of the flash banners, since they are more animated and more attractive than static banners. These eye-catching banners can also be designed to include interactive functions that allow viewers to do various things such as clicking and even typing text on them. Certain things are better explained using images and animated words. Diagrams, flow charts and other types of charts are delivered better using flash banners than using plain text.
Website owners who wish to use flash banner in their websites should not use stock flash banners. It is better if you design your own flash banners because other people might be using the same design and your flash banner will not be special. By designing your own flash banners, you are free to use whichever image, video or audio files you like. Customization is unlimited to only your creativity and imagination. Use your own company or website logo, put your own images and sounds, and reach your target audience. Furthermore, you will be able to create a unique, one-of-a-kind flash banner. The message is conveyed accurately when you design your own banner and you can control the size so that it will not be too heavy and slow down the website.
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| | Oct-17th | | With so many millions of websites on the internet, after a while, they all start to look the same. If you want your website to stand out from the masses, you should strongly consider a Flash website. Flash websites are used by the most modern companies on the cutting edge of the industry. All of the big names in the industry use Flash now. It's almost a requirement if you're going to compete in the business world. Some of the biggest brands in the world like Nokia, Nike, Volkswagen, and Adidas all use Flash. With so many people utilizing this technology for their web design, shouldn't you strongly consider it for yours? One of the oldest methods in the book to becoming successful is to follow those that are also successful.
Flash offers a lot of benefits for your website. The biggest thing that it provides you is the ability to catch someone's attention. Let's face it...you've only got a couple of seconds to get a prospect's attention. If you fail to do so, they'll just move on to something else. Someone else that sells the same product as you will end up capturing their attention. In this business it's all about attention-getting strategies. If you get their attention right off of the bat, you can pull them into your website. They'll want to see more and learn more about you and your products. The longer that someone spends looking at your website, the more likely they are to buy something from you. Without sales, your business will go under pretty quickly. Anything that you can do to keep people on your site longer is essential to your success.
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| | Aug-29th | | I am sure most of you would have noticed that we've updated Toufee website. The Members page, i.e. the first page that you see after login, has also undergone a major overhaul in design and strategy. The new Members Home UI is more focused meaning it will let you quickly get on with functions that are used frequently. This tutorial quickly introduces you to the new UI of Members Homepage.
Members Home: The new UI
The new Members Homepage is now divided into major section - Create a New Project and Open a Recent Project
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| | Aug-21st | | About this Tutorial
This tutorial introduces you to one of the advanced features of Toufee Pro and the most important feature of frames - controlling the frame timing. Frames form the building block of a Toufee movie and knowing how to set custom timings will help you master the nuances of professional flash movie making.
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| | Aug-19th | | Many times, Toufee users are faced with the need to convert their video files from one format to another for easy upload to Toufee Pro. Sometimes users might have encoded the video in a less known codec. So if you ever have a problem uploading your video files to Toufee or problem with your video files not getting detected in Toufee Pro, simply convert the videos to MPEG format using Any Video Converter. This tutorial covers step by step the procedure of converting movies to MPEG.
Download and Install Any Video Converter
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| | Jul-30th | | You might have encoutered the "Add Frame Error" when trying to convert your Toufee flash movies to AVI or MPG or when uploading them to YouTube using Toufee ProConvertor software. This usually indicates not having the latest Desktop Flash Player and the required Flash ActiveX for your browser. We will be soon porting the Toufee Pro Convertor software to a server-based program which means you do not require any software to convert your flash movies to AVI or MPG video, but for the meantime, please use the following updates.
Please install the latest Desktop Flash Player along with the Flash ActiveX plugin by downloading these from the following URLs
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| | Jul-6th | | Toufee Pro flash movies can be used to make great Autorun CDs which can be used for a variety of applications like custom-made birthday CD specially for a friend, a corporate flash presentation, video tutorials, etc.
Step 1: Export your flash movies to SWF
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| | Jul-6th | | Toufee Pro's most popular feature, besides the hundreds of new preset effects, enhancements and new options is the ability to export flash movies to standalone SWF files which allows your flash movies to be played independently on any PC or Mac platform without the need to access Toufee Pro MovieMaker.
[If you are unsure how to export Toufee flash movies to SWF, please refer the following Toufee Blog article http://www.toufee.com/moviemaker/download-toufee-flash-movies-as-swf-files/]
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| | Jun-25th | | If you are an old member of Toufee and have used Toufee Classic (i.e. Toufee 1.0 version) to create your movies, then you might wonder where all those movies have gone since the introduction of Toufee Pro version. Worry not, for all your old "Toufee Classic" movies are very much intact if you have upgraded your membership to a paid subscription. As a special bonus, all paid members will have access to both the current Toufee Pro version plus the Toufee Classic version at no extra charge (you actually get two softwares for the cost of one and what's more, Toufee Classic is fully-functional as ever).
As mentioned earlier, paid members can access all old Toufee Classic movies by clicking on the Toufee Classic link in the "HomePage" after you login to Toufee Pro as shown in the attached screenshot below
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| | May-27th | | Frames are the building blocks of a Toufee Pro movie and knowing how to effectively work with frames helps in quickly creating movies and greatly reduce a lot of repetitive work. Toufee Pro Movie Maker has a number of improved features for handling frames that facilitate easy ordering, duplication and managing frame backgrounds/effects. This article will quickly introduce you to creating/duplicating frames and using the Frame Manager how to optimize frames management.
Creating Frames
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| | May-12th | | Publishing Toufee flash movies had always been easier and the same continues with our new improved Publish feature of Toufee Pro. The new Publish window of Toufee Pro offers much more support and functionality than its earlier version (Toufee Classic). Besides, we have direct publishing support to a number of new social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut etc., or to blogs like Blogger, WordPress so you never have to run around copying and pasting HTML code or having to login to multiple sites if you want to publish the same movie to many social networking sites.
Toufee Pro allows you to directly publish your flash movies to the following sites -MySpace, Comment, Friendster, Facebook, Orkut, Bebo, Tagged, Blogger, Hi5, Live Spaces, Piczo, Freewebs, LiveJournal, BlackPlanet, myYearbook, WordPress, Vox, TypePad, Xanga, Multiply, iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, MiGente
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| | May-5th | |
All flash movies created with Toufee Pro sports a movie-player look with all the playing controls enabled by default. The movie player skin allows easy functionality to quickly pause/stop movies or jump to specific timelines using the Timing bar. However, if you are developing a flash movie for your website or a flash banner, then you would ideally like to have just your flash movie without any sort of player or controls. You can do so by selecting the Hide Player /No Controls option under the Player Skin / Controls submenu of the Movie menu (Movie -> Player Skin / Controls -> Hide Player / No Controls).
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create gorgeous flash movies and slideshows for your website quickly and easily - without any technical skills or programming - with toufee's flash maker.
