Five Free Flash Editors for Making Good Flash

We can access to many flash videos very often, but it maybe a little difficult for us to define what exactly Flash Video is, right? Actually, Flash Video is a container file format which is used to deliver the videos over the internet. It can be embedded in the SWF files as well. Thanks to its stunning feature like smallest size and fast loading speed, Flash Video is widely and well adapted by many famous websites including YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com. We can play the Flash Videos via Adobe Flash Player or with the help of third-party software if necessary.

Enjoying flash videos online is a very good experience, but have you ever thought of making flash videos of your own and upload to websites for people sharing? Well, we can do that as other people do with the assistance of some useful and free flash editors which are specially developed to edit the flash files with awesome effects and animations, making the flash files more attractive.

Now, let’s come to have a look at five good and free flash editors in the following.

1. Salasaga

Salasaga is a completely free and easy-to-use GUI creating environment, helping users to create the impressive visuals and practically useful flash based learning content. It brings what Adobe Captivate offers at the very beginning, later, it has been greatly enhanced with the purpose of providing more comprehensive and powerful function than Adobe Captivate does. It allows the production of in-depth presentation and simulation style e Learning.

2. Ming

Called as a big library, Ming can produce Macromedia Flash files (.swf), written in C in its own way. Besides, it contains some practical utilities which can be used to work with the swf files. The lately-released Ming has been updated to support PHP.

3. Flash Develop

Flash Develop is a very powerful and popular free open source code editor supporting Microsoft Windows .NET 2.0 application for XP, Vista, 7 and 8, Mac OSX/Linux compatible using virtualization software (VirtualBox, VMWare, Parallels) and more. Besides, it offers the top class supporting for ActionScript (2 & 3) and Haxe development and can integrate with Flash CS3, Flex SDK, MTASC, haXe and Swfmill seamlessly.

4. MTASC

Short for Motion Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler, MTASC is an open source ActionScript2 compiler for free. It is commonly used by lots of Flash professionals all over the world. What is the most amazing point is that MTASC can compile .as files into a `.swf` containing the flash byte code without needing the Flash IDE. That means, we can import the swf with Flash IDE or with other source tools when we would like to add some additional resources.

5. Minibuilder

Minibuilder is written in Action Script and developed to help developing programs which are written in Action Script 3. It provides an editor with a small footprint that would eventually run on smaller computers like notebooks or even pocket-size devices. It is a great experience to operate this almighty flash editor since the changing or extending is quite easy.

These five great flash editors above are all open source and can be used to help creating amazing flash videos or files without costing you even a penny. Why not have a try.