This book would not have been possible without the dedication and talent of many people. Although much of the content in this edition has changed to reflect changes in the tools, there is also a good deal of content from dedicated contributors that has been carried over from the previous edition. We are always grateful for the added breadth and depth the tutorials from our guest experts bring to the content. First and foremost, we would like to thank the Flash development community. In our combined experiences in research and multimedia production, we haven't seen another community that has been so open, friendly, and willing to share advanced tips and techniques. It has been gratifying to be involved as the community keeps expanding and to see the innovators in the first wave of Flash development become mentors to a whole new generation. Thank you all for continuing to inspire and challenge audiences and each other with the possibilities for Flash.

We would like to thank everyone at John Wiley & Sons who supported us as we researched and revised, week after week. Beth Taylor, our project editor and copy editor, was amazingly patient, kind, and supportive while we juggled our various job responsibilities with the writing schedule. It's been a while since we've had a project editor that replies to our midnight emails within minutes of being sent. Her warm receipt of our material gave us that extra motivation to get the next piece of content submitted. A Flash Bible production team can't steer itself—our gratitude goes to Kim Spilker, our acquisitions editor. Kim is the first acquisitions editor we've had that truly gave us the space we needed to overhaul a best-selling book. Her "kill 'em with kindness" approach was instrumental for our ability to retain our sanity as we continued to push deadlines to add and update more content to the book. Thank you, Kim.

Scott McAuliffe, our technical editor, was hands-down the best technical editor we've had yet on the Flash Bible series. Not a chapter went by without a helpful comment or correction from Scott. Dear reader, Scott's responsible for making sure we listed the correct shortcut or menu command in any one of the dozens of tutorials explained in this book.

A special thanks to all of the Schematic Flash team who tested examples as we created them. Peng Lee continued to give us timely advice for several examples in the book, and Beau DeSilva spent many nights rendering the 3D wasp footage used in Chapter 17.

Many of the scripts provided in this book would not be complete without the "instant messenger" help provided by Joey Lott, Paul Newman, Danny Patterson, Bruce Hyslop, Roger Braunstein, Geoff Stearns, and Phillip Kerman. We'd also like to thank Richard Blakely and Jerry Chabolla at Influxis.com for providing the ongoing Flash Media Server hosting for this book's streaming video examples.

Of course, this book about Flash wouldn't even exist without the hard work of the people at Adobe who make it all possible. Many thanks to the developers, engineers, and support staff at Adobe, especially Jen Taylor, Richard Galvan, Mike Downey, Mike Chambers, Hugh Silin, Erica Norton, Jeff Kamerer, Nivesh Rajbhandari, Peter deHaan, and Jen deHaan, who were available day and night to answer our questions and ease our learning curve during the development of Flash CS3. We're also indebted, as always, to all our intrepid fellow developers and authors, who helped us to get our bearings in early versions of Flash CS3.