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Purchase Toufee Movie Maker and get 50% off on Eltima SWF & FLV Player

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Toufee has parterned with Eltima Software, a global information technology company, specializing in virtual serial communications and multimedia software development for the Windows and the Mac platforms. Under the new partnership, all customers who purchase a Toufee subscription (effective immediately) will get 50% discount on Eltima SWF & FLV Player for the Mac OS. Eltima SWF & FLV Player is an advanced Flash Player for the Mac OS that delivers superior functionalities such as the ability to save Flash movies to harddrive (even if the flash movie is played on a web page), play flash movies in Full Screen mode, capture screenshot of a flash movie frame and convert the FLV or a SWF movie into a series of screenshots. Besides these advanced features, other cool features of Eltima SWF & FLV Player are the option to zoom in/out flash movies, fast-forward, rewind playback, etc.

All new customers who purchase Toufee can now avail the special 50% discount on Eltima SWF & FLV Player which currently retails for $19.95. This is an exclusive offer that Eltima has made available only to Toufee customers to mark the significant parternship with Toufee. Toufee’s partnership with Eltima gives Mac users the best online flash movie maker application to quickly and easily develop portable flash solutions combined with Eltima SWF & FLV Player that provides a convenient, feature-rich platform for playback of SWF and FLV files on the Mac platform.

For any queries about the offer, please raise a Support Ticket by going to the Support Desk (http://www.toufee.com/support) and clicking on Submit a Support Ticket link.

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Convert Toufee flash movies to FLV, MOV, WMV and MP4 formats!

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

We’ve just finished adding additional formats to which you can now export flash movies created with Toufee. The top priority were the MOV and FLV formats as we got a number of requests for the same. Some users also did wish to export their flash videos to WMV. Without dissapointing any of them, we’ve added support to all these formats and in addition, we added MP4 support as well!

Very quickly, here is how to convert your flash movies to MOV, FLV, WMV etc

  1. Submit your flash movie for YouTube conversion (Publish -> Export to YouTube option), yes, you heard us right, its YouTube conversion. As a first step, your flash movie needs to be converted to the AVI format. The AVI file is then converted to one of the target formats (MOV, FLV, WMV) which you’ll see in the steps that follow
  2. You’ll receive an email that your flash movie is ready to download. The email will look similar to this.  Watch the last few lines closely though as you will now see a link that allows you to download the movie in MOV format.

  3. When you click on the MOV link in the email, a new page will open with the message that your request for MOV conversion has been acccepted.  You will receive an email with the link to download your MOV file when it is ready. If MOV conversion is all that you need, then that is it. However, there is one more step you need to do if you are converting to FLV, MOV or MP4 formats



  4. To convert to FLV, WMV and MP4 formats, you simply take the MOV link (shown in previous step) from the email and append the following parameter to the MOV link
    &filetype=flv” (without quotes)
    So for example, if your MOV link is
    http://toufee.com/commoncgi/addmovrequest.pl?userID=56&proj=promobanner&domain=toufee.com
    then your FLV movie link would be just that with the “&filetype=flv” appended at the end of the URL.
    http://toufee.com/commoncgi/addmovrequest.pl?userID=56&proj=promobanner&domain=toufee.com&filetype=flv
    Once you paste the above URL in a browser window, you’ll get a similar confirmation page (as in step 3), this time however your movie will be queued for FLV conversion. The same applies to WMV and MP4, i.e. you simply need to change the value in the filetype parameter to wmv or mp4.

Hope this helps. Should you have any questions, please leave a Support Ticket by going to http://www.toufee.com/support/ and click on Submit a Support Ticket hyperlink.

See you all. Till next time.
Ganesh

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Why Flash Banners Make More Sense Than Animated Gifs Banners

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

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.

To create flash banners, one is usually required to have some knowledge of ActionScript. However, nowadays there are more options of applications that can be used to create flash banners by just using a mouse. Whichever application you choose, be sure to create flash banners that are not too large in size, as most websites require flash banners to be within certain limits, before you are allowed to advertise at their websites. Also always remember that flash offers a considerable advantage over the animated gif banners because of the reasons just mentioned, so it only makes sense that you use flash banners for your advertising. Remember that attractiveness plays a huge role in catching the attention of visitors to your website. The more eye-catching your flash banners are, the more visitors will click on your advertisements and as a result, you will get more traffic from potential customers.

To cut a long story short, we have designed “the ultimate flash banner maker” so average people like you and me can also make flash banners for our business – but without spending a fortune on expensive software Or months in learning all this technical Flash mumbo-jumbo first…

http://www.toufee.com

Sanchit Bhatnagar,
CEO – http://www.Toufee.com
~Create flash banners in under a minute~

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Why You Should Strongly Consider Using Flash Movies For Your Website

Friday, October 17th, 2008

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.

A Flash website will also give your website a unique look that you won’t get anywhere else. The last thing you want is for your site to look like a standard, cookie-cutter format. Those types of sites don’t evoke any emotion from visitors. When you can get others emotions involved, you have a much better chance at making them your customer.

With all of these obvious benefits, you should undoubtedly implement a Flash website for your business. It can be the difference between a mediocre website and a great one. This could be the difference between a few sales and an abundance of sales.

While Flash is obviously a great thing, you shouldn’t overdo it. If you have a Flash intro, you should always put a link to skip it in plain sight. The worst thing for a customer is not being able to skip over your Flash intro if they frequently visit the site. After a few times of seeing this, they’ll start to just avoid your site all together. You should use Flash with moderation on your site. Otherwise you might start to annoy people. Some classical elements should still be utilized throughout your site as well.

Overall, Flash is a great tool for your web design. If used correctly, it can put your website over the top. It might be the exact thing that you’ve been looking for to complete your online business.

To cut a long story short, we wanted to make flash easy… so average people like you and me can also make flash websites for our business – but without spending a fortune on expensive software Or months in learning all this technical Flash mumbo-jumbo first…

But all the “Industry Experts” said it “could never” be done…

So Out of Pure Frustration, we researched and reached out to the Greatest Programmers to Build “The Ultimate Flash Maker.”

http://www.toufee.com/

The Easiest and Fastest Flash Movie Maker Online

Plus you’ll receive 175 Free Flash Plugins For Trying!

If you know how to use a mouse… you can create Flash with Toufee.com …Period!

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Converting between video file formats using Any Video Converter

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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
Download and install Any Video Converter from the following URL
http://www.any-video-converter.com/any-video-converter.exe

Step 1: Launching Any Video Converter
Click on the Any Video Converter Professional icon on the desktop or select it from the Program Files folder in the Start menu. The Getting Started page opens which quickly lists the steps involved in the conversion. You’ll find that converting with Any Video Converter is a breeze as its one of the most user friendly program that is available.

Any Video Converter interface


Step 2: Select the Video file

Click on the Add Video button to browse and select your video. Once you have selected your video, it will be listed in the grid as shown below.

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Now select the MPEG II Movie profile from the Profile dropdown list box (see above screenshot). The Profile option is where you select the target format into which you are converting to. If you are converting to a different format, say, WMV, you can select the the same from the Profile dropdown list. Any Video Converter supports most of the formats so you can be rest assured you’ll never run out of options.


Step 3: Starting the conversion process

When you are ready to convert, click on the Encode button. You might get a warning (like the one below) since the evaluation version supports converting upto 3 minutes. Click on Continue to Evaluate button

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The conversion process with start and you will see the progress as shown below
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Step 4: Completing and verifying the conversion process

Once the conversion is complete, you will see the Completed message in the Status field. Click on the Output Folder button (on the bottom left of the screen) to open the output file and verify by playing it.

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As you saw, converting with Any Video Converter is a breeze. You should not find any problems now with uploading or converting videos for use with Toufee. Should you have any further questions, please leave a support ticket as always!

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“Add Frame Error” when working with Toufee Pro Convertor

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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

http://www.toufee.com/flash/plugin.exe
http://www.toufee.com/flash/activex.exe

Make sure you clear your browser cache before installing the above updates.

Also make sure you have the latest Toufee Pro Convertor which can be downloaded from http://pro.toufee.com/downloads/setup.exe

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“Add Frame Error” when working with Toufee Pro Convertor