Agenda 9605 Envision DFA Conservatory

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Agenda 9/6/05 Envision D/FA Conservatory

• Introduction to Macromedia Flash
• Creating a new document and changing the size,
  background color, and frame rate
• The different parts of the Flash interface
• The tools, stage, timeline, and properties
  inspector.
• How to open other panels that are available.
• Frames, keyframes and blank keyframes and LAYERS
• Difference between a Shape and a Motion Tween.
• Shape Tweens are only for morphing simple
  shapes into other shapes.
• Motion Tweens are for most everything else (BUT
  an object has to be a SYMBOL in order for it to
  be motion tweened!)
• Creating a simple 2 second-long shape tween.
• Creating a simple 2 second-long motion tween.

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Flash Studio Practice 9/6/05

• Using what you have learned today, create some
  animations in Flash.
• Use Layers!!!
• Try to make sure you dont have any broken
  tweens (where the tween in the timeline is
  dashed) by making sure you are choosing correctly
  between shape and motion tweens.
• Shape Tweens are only for morphing simple
  shapes into other shapes.
• Motion Tweens are for most everything else (BUT
  an object has to be a SYMBOL in order for it to
  be motion tweened!)
• Save all the files you create into a new folder
  called FLA_originals.