This is my third post on Toufee 2.0, so before you start reading this article, I would recommend that you read my first post on Toufee 2.0 features and also the second.

There is something about Toufee 2.0 that I would like to share. As you maybe aware, Toufee 1.0 is hardly months old and we are already ready with the next big release. Too quick an upgrade? When we just finished work with Toufee 1.0, Adobe came up with the big news of Flex SDK which completely changed how Flash movies and Flash as a technology would be evolve in the years to follow. Immediately, the Toufee team set into action. While Adobe is working on Flex, we keep in synchronization so that Toufee works on the latest technology (mind you Flex is still in beta, but with Toufee you have a working Flex product ready for release). When released (very soon), Toufee will be among the first few products that is a full-fledged Flex application. So next time, when the folks at Adobe are ready with their next technology, we’ll be ready with a finished product and you can experience it live at Toufee.com

Ok now to a million-dollar question, what is the release date of Toufee 2.0? Watch out this space, I’ll let you know very soon

Ganesh
Toufee Support

This post is a continuation to my earlier post on Toufee 2.0 features and the new cutting-edge effects of Toufee 2.0, the free online flash movie maker. As I mentioned, there’s a long list of new features that make Toufee 2.0 a special version and a compelling upgrade.

Toufee 2.0 is more than creating flash movies and flash videos. We got rave reviews about Toufee 1.0 version and how its a heavy application (if one goes by the number of features) for an online tool. Well then, Toufee 2.0 might well be even bigger! Here’s a list of what you can expect to see in the new flash video maker

New Xbox-style UI
Expect to see a sleek and a refreshing UI in Toufee 2.0. The interface holds seemlessly integrates the sophisticated Toufee 2.0 flash movie maker engine with the flashy and trend Interface buttons, smooth window transitions that will give users a cool Xbox feel!

Save flash movies to YouTube
Saving flash movies to YouTube was one option that users had always emailed us about. Infact, this was a frequent query to Support and most users were mad about having this option. No more queries…its official, Toufee 2.0 will allow saving flash movies directly to YouTube. Worry not people, just wait a wee bit more and you can happily upload all your favorite flash videos and flash movies to YouTube.

400 Preset Effects
It couldn’t get bigger than this and its just a reminder of why Toufee 2.0 is complex, sophisticated but yet simple (getting work done with Toufee 2.0 is a breeze thanks to the new UI). With Toufee 2.0, you can never run short of effects for your flash movies. By the way, these are no ordinary effects and we’ve made sure that each of the 400 new preset effects is distinct from one another

Well, the fun is not over yet, there is plenty more to write and I will keep posting new updates on the latest free flash movie maker. Keeping watching this space for cool updates on Toufee 2.0!

Toufee 2.0, the all new improved version of the popular online flash movie maker, is in the making for quite some time and we thought we give users a feel of what to expect with the new Toufee 2.0 version. Unlike regular software upgrades where new versions means additional features or new enhancements, Toufee 2.0 differs in a way that the new version is more than an upgrade…its a completely recoded and fresh Toufee that uses the latest Flex technology. So what’s the big fuzz about the new Toufee? A run down of the features of the new flash movie maker is found below

New, New and New…
Yes, its new…the code, the core Toufee engine, the User Interface and the features. Since everything is new about Toufee 2.0, you are assured of a fast, efficient and more better Toufee application that makes creating flash movies quicker and easier!

Save flash movies to your PC
The new Toufee 2.0 version will allow you to download your flash movies to your PC. This is something that so many users have been emailing us about and finally here you have it. The new Toufee 2.0 version allows downloading of your flash movies in SWF format so that you can host in your own webserver

Bulk Image Uploader Tool
Gone are the hassles with uploading images one after the other. We understand how frustrating that could be when you are creating a flash movie that has loads of pictures. So we thought of introducing a new tool that will allow you to upload images in one shot! The new tool will considerably save your time and effort!

Remove Toufee logo from movies
You can now remove the Toufee logo from all your flash movies. Flash developers, web developers and freelance designers can now use Toufee to create commercial flash presentation or use it to create flash videos for their client websites.

That is not all with new Toufee 2.0 as it boasts of a hell of a features that I can just keep writing about. Stay tuned as I will be writing more posts on the new features of Toufee 2.0. So keep checking this space!

Till next time
Ganesh

So what exactly is happening with Toufee 2.0 and when can you expect to see it in action? Why the hell this delay? Well people, this is what happened. Toufee 2.0 was complete long before – a couple of months back actually. As you know Toufee itself is done using Adobe Flash platform (i.e. Toufee which allows you to create flash movies, is also made using the very same Flash technology). Flash technology allows creating easy animation effects or actions for websites. While this might be fine for simple animation, more demanding and complex effects requires some programming assistance (a single line of programming code is all it takes to move an object from x to y!) so Macromedia introduced something called ActionScript along with Flash. All those cool animations that you see nowadays on websites are the work of ActionScript + Flash effects – that is the reason you get to see really great animations that result in suprisingly small file sizes as half the effects are programmed using ActionScript (thanks to ActionScript, difficult effects could still be achieved with small lines of code)

Toufee, as you know, is a complex tool developed using ActionScript and Flash. Toufee 2.0, which we keep talking about as the next big thing, was completed long back using ActionScript 2.0. That’s when Adobe (the owner of the Flash technology) came with big announcements…Adobe introduced the new Flex technology that the company promises would make is easier to create rich internet applications. The Toufee team was quick to realize what it meant – It meant that Adobe is planning to scrap ActionScript 2.0. We immediately decided that we rewrite (yes, recode the entire Toufee 2.0 application from scratch) Toufee 2.0 using the new Flex technology. It’s a big gamble that we took since we were just days away from the release of Toufee 2.0 back then. Eventually, this lead to the release of Toufee 2.0 extended by a couple of months and as you have been hearing from me (if you had emailed Support you would know what I mean ) the entire Toufee team have been working day in and day out rebuilding the entire Toufee 2.0 using Flex. Mind you, Flex is a relatively new technology and creating an already popular product like Toufee using bleeding edge technology not only requires great skill but ample time. Nevertheless, Toufee’s development team was equal to the task and in only a few months they have managed to rebuild the entire Toufee 2.0 application using the new state-of-the-art Flex technology.

Alright, you might wonder why you need to know all this? Why can’t we have simply sticked with ActionScript and had got the godammn v2.0 released as it was planned a few months back? The reasons are many-fold – firstly, many of the new features in Toufee 2.0 wouldn’t have been better if not for Flex. Secondly, as we continue to better Toufee, adding new features becomes relatively easier and faster with Flex. Had we stuck with the old Toufee 2.0 (based on ActionScript 2.0) it would mean that in the future, adding new features would have been extremely difficult and that could look really awful

That’s it…technology evolves so fast that products like Toufee need to keep pace and we are doing just exactly that. Though it did put off the release by a few months, but soon as Toufee 2.0 is out, you can be rest assured that you will working with an online flash movie maker tool that is more than cutting-edge and way ahead of features and competition.