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1. DRAW a background setting for a scene on a layer labeled "Background"
or something like that. 2. LOCK the background layer by clicking the dot
below the lock symbol on the layer line. 3. ADD a new layer by clicking
the left plus symbol under the layers. 4. CLICK once in the first frame
of the new layer and start to DRAW a new image that will eventually move
on the screen. 5. CONVERT the finished image to a symbol (Insert - Convert
to Symbol). 6. CLICK in another frame later on in the movie where you want
the animation of this new object to end. 8. DRAG the object that you want
to animate to another part of the screen (make sure you are in the last
frame of your animation while dragging this). 9. CREATE MOTION TWEEN by
clicking once on any frame in between the first frame of animation and the
last. You should see your animation become highlighted on the stage. Flash MX BasicFlash MX Basic Course Description: In this course, you will gain experience with Flash tools and methods for working in Flash. You will build on this knowledge by using Flash to create animations that you can publish on the Web or as stand-alone files. Lesson 1: Getting started with Flash Introducing Flash Closing files and exiting Flash Lesson 2: Creating Shapes Lesson 7: Introducing animation and templates Animation basics Creating animation flashWhether it is playing a game, taking a virtual tour of a product or site, learning from an interactive lesson, there is no doubt about it: Macromedia's Flash has become a vital tool for web publishers and users alike. Designers as well as Web users praise Flash for its ease of use and functionality. And with more than 300 million users of Flash Player, Macromedia boasts, "Flash is the leading vector technology for designing high-impact, low-bandwidth Web sites". Many of the features that contribute to Flash's overwhelming success have also made it difficult to use during the localization stage of a web site. A few of the challenges that often surface during a Flash localization project include: - Bitmapped text--The lack of editable text elements is the single most expensive problem that is encountered during Flash localization project. Either way, most Flash animations account neither for foreign-language text expansion nor for differences in language grammar andFlash TermsThe programming language used to create interactivity in Macromedia Flash. In Flash, alpha refers to the opacity & transparency of an object. In Flash and other multimedia tools, the coordinate system refers to locations by pixels in the X (horizontal) axis and the Y (vertical)) axis in relation to the TOP LEFT CORNER of the screen. In motion graphics and animation software, a frame is a point in time on the timeline, represented by a small box or cell. A higher frame rate makes for a smoother animation, but also results in a higher file size that might actually cause the animation to stall on a slower computer or web connection. Layers in Flash are not just for visual organization. In motion graphics and animation software, a frame in the timeline where some kind of change to an object takes place - color, shape, size, position, or transparency. An animation technique in which the frames in-between 2 keyframes are automatically created by Flash. Flash is a010-30: y SAS/IntrNetŪ: A Macromedia Flash Front-end for SASŪ Web ApplicationsThis paper demonstrates how you can utilize Flash functionality in order to create a dynamic, platform-independent web application that is configured and driven by SAS Software. Macromedia's Flash is a vector-based animation environment that enables the creation of highly dynamic and interactive multimedia experiences. Flash originally began as a means to provide web-based animation in a package that was smaller and more functional than animated GIF's. The first step in replacing the visual layer of an application with Flash is to draw each screen of the application as a Flash movie clip or layer within the root movie clip. One big difference between creating a visual interface in Flash and one in HTML is that the Flash movie is able to communicate with the web server without performing a page transition. Though the leading and trailing ampersands are not typically part of a urlencoded string, Flash is tolerant of them and they help to ensure that all values are parsedThe latest culprit contributing to the problem-- Macromedia Flash. Now before you go getting all angry and start accusing me of horribly misrepresenting Flash, let me clarify. All too often, Flash has been incorporated within a web site solely for the sake of being able to say "Look, we've got Flash!" Flash has now become the focus, distracting visitors from the web site's content, when in reality, Flash should be used to accentuate the content. Part of being able to create usable Flash content comes from simply knowing when to use Flash, and when not to. In general: Make sure Flash content adds value -- don't use Flash just for the sake of using Flash. Provide a "skip" option to allow users to skip over a Flash introduction animation (commonly known as a splash page). Users are more likely to wait for a Flash site or animation to download when they are provided with a status indicator that shows how long the loading sequence will take to complete. [To learn Creating a new document Now that you have had a tour of the application you will create your own Flash document. To learn how to create a application in Flash, you'll start with the very fi rst step in the process: creating a new fi le. 2. Select Flash Document and read the description of the fi le type that appears, and then click OK. The application will play at 12 frames per second, an optimal frame rate for playing animations on the web. Media content includes artwork, either created in Flash or imported from another program, and text. When you import a fi le into Flash, you can import it directly into the library or you can import it onto the Stage. 3. Click and drag a rectangle on the Stage to frame the animation. Flash stores symbols in the library. Flash is all over the place on the web, and used for everything from making small graphics or anima-tions that just take up a small part of a page to full-page animations with snazzy sounds. Chanc-es are you see several things done in Flash every time you go to the web, but don't know it. The help system in Flash will help you get started - the new-est version has beginning info in the "How Do I" section instead of tutorials. Since Flash was introduced years ago it has grown from a simple little web animation tool to a full-featured program that allows you to make multimedia graphics that will play in about 90% of the web browsers out there. Flash's growth has not been a beautiful thing, however, and the improvements and design of the program seem governed more by corporate politics and the marketplace than by common sense and ease of use. You can do almost whatever you want in Flash Being a vector based program, Flash is a lot like Illustrator in the way it handles flash_trivia_factsheetaudience The percentage of game-players among total online users was 38 percent in 1999 and is projected to be 43 percent by 2003. (Jupiter Strategic Planning Services, 2000) Get ready for the finest trivia on the Web - now available in a slick, new Flash format! Universal Trivia: Flash Edition is delivered using Macromedia's Flash player technology. The Flash player is a widely accepted delivery tool for Web interfaces, games and animated content. Through Macromedia's strategic partnerships, the Flash player ships with Windows 95/98 and later, MacOS 8.X and later, Internet Explorer CD, America Online and Netscape Navigator. 98.3 percent of online users (more than 426 million people) have the Flash Player installed on their systems. Not only is Timothy Parker the editor of the successful daily Universal Crossword, but he also edits the Universal Word Search, Universal Puzzles, the Entertainment, Sports, Financial and Cryptic editionsBible Flash Projectible Flash Project The elementary children must memorize a weekly Bible Verse. Your job is to create a Flash Movie that they can watch and will visually help them to remember the verse. Using at LEAST one of the elementary Bible Verses you need to create a project with the following: Interesting introduction that will draw the student's attention into the movie. The Bible verse and reference. Keep directions and vocabulary at the elementary level Repeat words, phrases, etc to help with the memorization Technical effects that include but are not limited to: Motion Animations Shape Animations Symbols At least ONE movie clip Frame ActionsOverview Flash MX 1Flash MX: Level 1 is a hands-on course that will introduce you to the basics of creating objects and animating in Macromedia's Flash MX. You will explore the basics of Flash, including tools and features, and will create different types of animations. Finally, you will publish material for the Web. View a Flash movie and modify the appearance of the Stage. Manipulate objects, describe shape interaction, and import artwork. Add text and manipulate its behavior and appearance. Build layers and use them to create various effects. After completing this course, students will know how to create custom Flash animations for use on the Web. Students will create frame-by-frame, shape-tweened, and motion-tweened animation using both custom and imported graphics as well as text.Create engaging blended learning seminars, employee training courses, company announcements, HR communications, product launches, investor communications, sales representative training, channel partner training, customer training and more. Eliminate all the time, complexity and cost of creating c ustom Flash presentations and online training modules Articulate Presenter lets non-technical users create rich-media presentations by integrating narration and interactivity with a standard PowerPointŪ file. At the press of the button, your presentation is transformed to a compelling Flash experience. No need to rely on expensive Flash programmers. Create compelling presentations, complete with narration, animation and Develop and deliver content fast, while it's timely and relevant. With Articulate Presenter; your presentation is converted to Flash, which is already installed in 98% of Web browsers. Convert PowerPoint animations to Flash automatically and edit animation settings Factsheet 25: What is Flash and how can I use it?Flash is a technology that allows web designers to create animations and interactive "movies", which can then be embedded into their web pages. In the early stages of its development, Flash was particularly suited to the production of vector based animations (in which the images are stored in a mathematical vector format), rather than more conventional bitmaps (in which images are stored as a series of pixel dots). Because Flash movies are displayed by Macromedia's Flash Player plug-in (not by the main web browser itself), Flash-based design work is likely to be rendered identically on all browsers and computer platforms - just as the designer intended. text contained within a Flash movie may (in older versions of Flash) be impossible to extract and read by text-to-speech screen reader software (which is commonly used by blind and partially sighted people) text within a Flash movie is unlikely to respond to the browser's built-in commands to increase you toFME Readers and WritersShockwave Flash is a Macromedia innovated movie creation and display application designed to deliver vector graphics and animation over the Internet. The MIME type is application/x-shockwave-flash. Flash files are compressed so they can be used as web content, but this means that file creation takes longer due to the extensive compression techniques that are employed. In addition, since Flash was not originally designed to handle maps or large numbers of features, performance declines according to the number of features. A Flash movie may consist of several frames, however, the Flash Writer uses only one frame at a time to hold the converted image if the animate draw option is turned off; otherwise, each feature is stored in a frame and then they are displayed incrementally, which results in the map drawing itself bit by bit. All Flash features contain a flash_type attribute, which identifies the geometric type. flash_type: flash_arc The flash_arcs are reallystep -- to producing great Flash content is knowing what steps you'll have to take to move from the concept or idea of the Flash movie to the finished product. This chapter explores the basics of Flash production and how to use the new Project panel in Flash MX Pro 2004 to organize your files. Whether you're a freelance Web con-sultant (or designer) or a member of a large creative or programming department, knowing how to manage the Flash content production will save you plenty of headaches, time, and money. Before we can explore the way in which Flash fits into a Web pro-duction workflow, we need to define a holistic approach to Web production in general. The user can then go to an area of his choice after this animation is complete. Flash is a great design tool to create amazing interfaces. Once you have a Flash Project file created, you can quickly open any document directly in Flash or another application. Flash MX Pro 2004 will publish all screensavermasterIt allows you build your own screensavers with your favorite Flash animation files or images together with midi or mp3. What you need to do is to collect images, sounds or Flash animations files. In this way, your screen savers contain Flash animations inside. Click to learn more about: How to build with Flash animations? Flash ScreenSaver Master helps to build your own screen savers with Flash animations or images. Here is how to build screensavers with Flash animations. 2. Add Flash animation files into the screen saver in the 3. Build with images--Images slide show Flash ScreenSaver Master helps to build your own screen savers with Flash animations or images. Flash Saver is designed to help you save Flash animations from web pages to your hard disk.Overview Flash MX Level 2In the Flash MX: Level 1 course, you learned the introductory skills to create basic animations and simple navigation buttons. In this course, you will work with symbols and instances, create extensive Timelines with independent animations, build more complex navigation controls, work with sound, and optimize your movies for viewing by your intended audience. What you Will Learn Identify the advantages that symbol use has in building a Flash movie, identify and create the three types of symbols, and manage symbols within a movie using the Library palette. Add advanced playback controls and interactive elements to a Flash movie (including remote rollovers and expanding menus), and create preloaders to ensure smooth playback of larger movie files over slow connections. Test a movie while simulating a slow connection, identify factors that increase a movie's size and download time, and publish a movie using many of Flash's numerous publishing options. After completing1 | 2
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