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.
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The Stage
This is the area where graphics are created and manipulated
using features from the tool palette
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The Tools
The Tools
Run your mouse over the tools for
their names . We will explore each. Do not worry about remembering
them
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The Time Line
This is like a play back head from a video machine
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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.
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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)
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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