Archive for December, 2008

Now an opportunity to promote your favorite flash movie maker even better!

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Toufee has transformed flash movie making by taking the concept “online” and in the process becoming a great success story. Users of Toufee have found the online flash movie maker more convenient, feature-rich, and the easiest flash movie making application to get started with creating flash movies.  Not to forget the attractive subscription model which many users feel more suited for their needs than an outright purchase of a “boxed” flash software program.

Toufee Affiliate Program

Right from the day we started our trial run, we keep hearing from customers how much they like the program and we had many new users who were referred by our existing Toufee customers. This lead us to consider an affiliate system, something that we felt could benefit both our customers and us. We created a separate affiliate program for experienced affiliates and for existing customers who want to promote Toufee. If you had ever been an affiliate, you are certain to find that Toufee’s Affiliate program is the most attractive in terms of earning potential and of affiliate commissions. To give you a quick headstart, please go through the following link to know about the Toufee Affiliate program

http://www.toufee.com/affiliate-center.html

Affiliate Back Office:

Being the most popular online flash movie maker, Toufee literally sells itself with very little effort and that is something any affiliate would love to promote. As the Toufee movie maker did go through many major and minor updates, so did the Affiliate program. A marked feature of the new Affiliate program is the fully revamped Affiliate Back Office, a full-fledged affliate tool for tracking everything related to your affliate programs, right from signups, commissions, payments – all this coupled with a powerful statistics and reporting tool.

Some of the new features of the Affiliate Back Office are

  1. No membership requirement and it’s free.
  2. A full-fledged affiliate center with over 20+ affiliate tools.
  3. Detailed tracking and logging. With Toufee’s back office, you get amazingly detailed stats for every hit you send to Toufee (not available in 99% affiliate tracking scripts).
  4. Separate screen for earnings, signup and history where you can zoom into each and every record for each and every detail.
  5. Fast and easy payment via Paypal on the first of every month.
  6. And lots more, as explained in the affiliate center

Becoming a Toufee Afffiliate

Its pretty easy, simply complete the signup at the following page

http://www.toufee.com/affiliate/Profile.pl

Logging onto the new Affiliate Back Office

If you are an existing affiliate or if you have newly signed up, your new Toufee Affiliate Back Office can be accessed from the following link

http://www.toufee.com/affiliate-login.html

If you are existing Toufee customer, and would like to update your Affiliate information or would like to newly signup for the Affiliate program, simply click on the Affiliates link on the Members Home page (the firsty page you see after you login to Toufee) to create and/or upate your Affiliate information

Affiliate Questions?

If you have any questions related to the Toufee Affiliate program, make sure to check the following link

http://www.toufee.com/affiliate-faq.html

If you do not find an answer there, you can raise a Support Ticket by going to http://www.toufee.com/support or by fillin up the Contact Form found at http://www.toufee.com/contact.html

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How to set manual replay option to your Toufee flash movies

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Ever since the release of Toufee Pro, the online flash movie maker pplication has gone through a number of major and minor changes. One such major change was the migration to online video conversion , i.e. where you simply submit your flash movies to be converted to AVI format (via Publish -> Export to YouTube option), a process which replaced the old Toufee Desktop Convertor program. There are a lot of improvements on the “backend” as well; we’ve extended video codecs support so you will no longer have any issues with your video files uploaded to Toufee and also the Text effect engine has undergone a major overhaul. On the SWF front, there were a number of improvements to the core SWF builder engine. So all in all, the Toufee Pro moviemaker is now much more improved in architecture and scalability.

That’s just a glimpse of what we’ve done to improving Toufee flash movie maker application in the past few months, but are a lots of other updates which I’ll cover in my future posts. All right, I can sense what you are wondering. What about the post? How do we create flash movies with a manual replay option? Well, for those of you who do not know about the auto-loop that Toufee supports, here is how you enable it for your Toufee flash movie. Select Movie -> Movie Play Settings -> Movie Stops Playing -> Never (Rewind and Restart Play)

This is a nice feature to have, but something better would be the option like Click to replay option, the users viewing the flash movie could use to replay the flash movie if you want. Though this option is not built-in (for the right reasons, since its easy to create this manually),  here is how you can add manually this option to the flash movies that you create with Toufee.

1.  Open your flash movie in Toufee, and select the last frame to display it in the moviemaker stage

2. Switch to the last frame of your flash movie and add a text object with the text “Click to replay”

3. With the “Click to replay” text selected, selected the Advanced tab from the Left Panel, expand Link To – Website / Email option as shown below

4. In the Link To dropdown list select Frame as the option and for the Frame # dropdown list, select Frame1 (or the first frame in your movie).

5. Click Save button to save the changes and replay the movie.

That its, you now have a custom replay text (or a button) to replay your Toufee flash movies. You no longer have to worry about creating flash movies but not having a manual replay option, for now you know how.

Till next post,

Ganesh

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Issues with saving Toufee Flash Movie projects

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The Problem

Quite a few Toufee customers have reported that they did not see any of the changes that they saved in the previous session. Customers have experienced this issue even though they have saved their Toufee flash movies properly using File -> Save or the Save option (on the top-right of the MovieMaker window). After a few tests, we traced down this problem to an issue with browser caching, a technique which Toufee MovieMaker extensively uses to improve application performance.  Though all of the changes made by customers to their flash movies are actually being saved, the reason they did not see the changes the next time they logged on was because they were looking at the “cached” version of their movies which lead to thinking that they actually lost their work. The actual fact is that none of the work was lost but because of this caching technology, they were looking at the “older” version of their flash movies.

The Solution

The simple solution to the problem is to clear the browser cache and relaunch Toufee. Customers should then be able to see all the changes that they saved in their last session.  For detailed instructions on clearing your browser cache, please refer the following page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_your_cache

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