You can get a free flash editor at giveawayoftheday today
 

This is a good snag, worth checking - only 8 hours left.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/sothink-swf-quicker/

You have to use the key in the readme file that downloads with it, but it looks like a decent 80buck flash editor, for free.

SWF Quicker is the leading Flash SWF Editor. It is the best flash animation editor to edit an existing SWF file or create a professional Flash animation from scratch. It is a powerful yet low cost Flash Animation Software. Best choice for you! Special features:

• Support applying Flash filters to add special animating visual effects to texts, buttons and movie clips.
• Support exporting the movie as Animated GIF file and Windows AVI video.
• Provide Object Snapping, Pixel Snapping and Snap Alignment to align objects.
• Support creating Shape morph effect (transform one shape to another).
• Support creating photo morph effect (transform one image to another).
• Provide various built-in Flash Album, Banner, Navigation Button and Slide Show templates.
• Provide a group of tools for you to create vector graphics and texts in the way of What You See Is What You Get.
• Support importing various kinds of media types, such as AI, MP3, MPEG, AVI, MOV, etc.
• Fully support syntax of Flash ActionScript 2.0 to control the animations.
• Provide an intelligent ActionScript Editor, which supports Syntax Highlighting, Auto Completion and Dynamic Prompt.
• Support specifying keyframes to generate Tween Animations automatically.
• Provide a large number of built-in animated effects.
• Support importing and editing SWF files and the EXE files compressed from SWF files.

Thanks for the link Bill. Got it downloading now. :)

THX, got it. |thumb

After just a quick look through, and it seems much more intuitive then Macromedia.

Curious that the EULA shows China as the legal jurisdiction. |crazy|