Flash is a Vector graphic based
multimedia authoring program designed to give high quality rich graphic
and sound interactivity to a web page.
It is a very complex program we will approach some of its features today.
3
The Stage
This is the area where graphics are created
and manipulated using features from the tool palette
4
The Tools
The Tools
Run your mouse over the tools for their names . We will explore
each. Do not worry about remembering them
5
The Time Line
This is like a play back head from a video
machine
6
The Introductory
Scene
Creating the Text
Open New from the File menu
Go to View Menu select Magnification and select View
All
Click on the Text Tool
At the bottom of the page you will notice the Properties
Window
Pick a suitable combination for your piece of Text
Write your text
click on the Arrow tool
Click once on any letter in your set. You should
see a blue box around the text.
go to Modify menu , select Break Apart.
Notice that each letter has a blue square around it.
7
Animating the Letters
In the timeline select the tenth frame point
With that selected go to the Insert menu and select
Key frame
You can add a key frame to the timeline by pressing
F6 , do that now
Notice that all the letters have a blue frame, click
away from the letters, then click on the first letter, it should now
have a border but the others should not.
Move that letter by dragging it.
Press F6 to add another key frame , select another
letter and do something similar with that
repeat this sequence until you have moved all the letters
of the first word
Go back to the timeline and shift click to select the
frames that contain then moved letters, it should start at frame 11
With the frames selected ( they should be black) right
mouse click and select copy Frames
Click on the next blank frame in the timeline and right
mouse click select Paste frames
Select these again by shift clicking and then right
mouse click this time select reverse frames
Save your work as "title" in the my Documents
folder ( not on your floppy)
press enter on your key board to see the movie play
( go to Modify menu select document and change the frame rate to 5 or
6 to slow down the movie)
8
Putting the Movie in
a Web Page
to Test your movie select Control Test movie, close
when happy
to create a file that can be used in FrontPage, go
to the File menu and select Publish
Flash creates two files in the same pace you saved
your file
open FrontPage and open the htm file of your Flash
movie
You can edit in normal mode but you will notice that
the Flash file exists as an object on the htm page
peter.thomas@vu.edu.au
