Along with Grant and others, i have also being working with the Macromedia Developer Center team, writing various Flash 8 related articles that will surface on Macromedia Devnet when Flash 8 starts to ship. There will be a whole range of new content available to help people get started with all the new Studio 8 tools.
Initially there will be two articles going live that i have written, the first is an introduction to Webcam Motion Tracking using the Image API and the second is a somewhat lengthy introduction to all things Image API aka the BitmapData Classes. Look out for these any many other articles, coming to a monitor near you in the near future. Ill post here when they go live!