Making animated intros?

Hi,
Can anyone tell me what would be a good program for creating a nice animated intro to a video podcast? I really like some of the ones I have been seeing but don't know what would be a good program for creating them. I really don't want a super high-end program that costs a lot but maybe something that would do a good job for a logo and some text to make it more interesing.
Thanks for the input!

Scooter,
Flash or Eovia Carrara have good text animation tools and are exportable to QuickTime movie format. More 3D applications for the Mac are located here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/
Mitchell A.
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There is a little panel that could help you called "Behaviors".
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/903/picture7.gif
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getURL("http://www.adobe.com","_self");
For the skip button:
Well, you can do two things:
A) Set the same script (getURL) on the button.
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I created an intro animation in Flash 8 to use as the intro
for our captivate classes.
The animation does not play well, it skips forward through
70% of the animation, and only plays one of the audio pieces.
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Hi there. There are just too many variables to do more than
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, so you'll have to be more specific please.
When you say it "skips forward through 70% of the animation",
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last 30%??
And about those "audio pieces" that it only "plays one" ...
how many separate audio files are included in the Flash Intro SWF?
And where are the missing ones time-lined to play (in Flash)?
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does ...
In the meantime, the answer to your other question is "no",
the Flash SWF size shouldn't have any affect at all, because as a
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.

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> 30 minute intro? That's about the biggest oxy-moron I
have ever heard
> of. I think you are trying to do something nobody else
would ever do -
> who would sit and watch something for 30 minutes before
entering a site?
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> MXBrian wrote:
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>> I have a 30 minute .wmv movie I need to convert to a
flash format. No
>> problem.(fla or swf)? But, I would like it to play
before going into
>> my main website with a skip into button. I need a
preloader and to
>> have it go directly onto the index.html (first page
of the website)
>> after playing. I have mad many failed attempts! Can
anyone help me
>> do this?
>>
>> Thank You,
>> [email protected]
>>

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well i'm just asking a beginner question.
what to prepare for a file wich will be played on tv. ( i
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