Macromedia%20Flash

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Macromedia Flash

• By Alice Tian

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Overview

• What is Flash
• Why Flash
• Basic User Interfaces
• Animation Basics
• Advanced Basics
• Publishing

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What is Flash?

• Multimedia graphics program specially for use on
  the web.
• Enables users to create interactive movies
• Made by Macromedia
• Trial version can be downloaded here
• http//macromedia.com/downloads/?promoidBIOD

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Why Flash?

• Loads much faster
• Allows interactivity
• Can use more than 256 colors
• Can control the animations
• Easier to create
• More stable in web browsers

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Basic User Interfaces

• Toolbar

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Basic User Interface

• Stage - rectangular area where graphic content is
  placed

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Basic User Interface

• Timeline organizes/controls content over time

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Basic User Interface

• Panels
• Property Inspector
• Action Library

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Animation Basics

• Creating a Document
• File -gt New -gt Click the General Tab -gt Create
  Document.
• Document Properties

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Advanced Basics

• Tweening
• Means in-betweening
• Borrowed from traditional animation
• Creating frames in between key frames
• Keyframes contains change in motion
• Buttons
• 4 States
• Up
• Over
• Down
• Hit

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Advanced Basics

• Movie Clips
• Movies within movies
• Properties and timeline independent of main movie
• ActionScript
• Internal programming language in Flash
• Similar to JavaScript
• Deals with structure and interactivity of Flash
  movies

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Publishing

• Web need HTML file to embed
• CD-ROM or E-mail attachment
• Projector file required
• Image File export specific file from projector
  file

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Thanks!!