Macromedia Flash 5

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Macromedia Flash 5

Intermediate Level Course


Animation Basics

Playhead

In-BetweenFrames

Keyframe

CurrentFrame

Number

Framerate

CurrentTime

Frames


Previewing The Animation

Testing

Scrubbing

Playing


Onion Skin ToolStart Onion Skin

MarkerEnd Onion Skin

Marker

Onion Skin

Onion Skin Outlines

Edit Multiple Frames

Modify Onion Markers


Review Questions


Motion Tween

• Using the Frame Panel, you can create the Motion Tween animation

• The successful Motion Tween is displayed by the solid arrow between two keyframes in the timeline


Position Tween

Object moves across the stage over time


Scale Tween

Object moves and scales across the stage over time


Rotation Tween

Object moves and rotates across the stage over time


Motion Tween Modifiers

Object moves across the stage over timestarting quickly and decelerating


Review Questions


Motion Tween Effects

• The Effects Panel contains different effects:

– None– Brightness– Tint– Alpha– Advanced


Color Tween

Object moves and changes its color across the stage over time


Review Questions


Guide Layers

• Guide Layers will be invisible when you export the movie

• Guides are used for registration purposes• Guides can be used for storing the visual content

not visible to the end user


Motion Guides

• Motion Guides are regular Guide layers that have an adjacent layer below it, set to be Guided

• The Motion Guide layer contains the drawn path that the instance will follow

• Motion Guide Layers will be invisible when you export the movie


Review Questions


Shape Tween

Object morphs from circle into square across the stage over time


Text Tween

Text morphs into different text or shape on the stage over time


Shape Tween Modifiers

Object morphs from circle into square across the stage over timestarting quickly and decelerating


Shape Hints

• Shape Hints are used with shape tweening to give a higher degree of control in the morphing process

• They are especially useful when morphing complex objects, like text


Review Questions


Masks

• Masks allow you a way of selectively showing and hiding content in a movie, based on the position of the mask

• With Masks you need at least two layers: one for the Mask and one that gets Masked (similar to the Guide and Guided layers)


Animating Masks

• Besides using static background layers, you can animate the content in the Masked layer


Masking Multiple Layers

• One Mask layer can be applied to multiple Masked layers

• Each Masked layer has to be positioned under the Mask layer


Text Masks

• One of the easiest ways to create Masks is to use the Text tool


Bitmap Masks

• Flash can internally create a kind of vector mask to cut out the background of the imported bitmap images, thus making the bitmaps behave as vector images


Review Questions


Importing Sound

• Flash supports four sound file types:

1. MP3

2. WAV

3. AIFF

4. AU


Using Sound

• Using the Sound Panel, you control what sounds play and when they play

• The Sound Panel lists all imported sounds stored in the Library


Sound Effects Settings

Play

Stop

Time In

EnvelopeLines

Envelope Handles

ZoomIn

ZoomOut

TimeUnits

FramesUnits

Left Channel

Right Channel


Sound Sync Settings

• The Sound Panel contains different sync options:

– Event– Start– Stop– Stream


Sound Loops Settings

• The Loops sound setting in the Sound Panel controls how many times a whole sound will play

• Default setting is 0• To make sound play

continuously, type a high number into the Loops option field


Review Questions


Fundamentals of Interaction

• In order for interaction to take place you need to have an Event and an Event Handler

You are sitting in your office

The phone on your desk rings

You pick up the receiver and start talking

This is an Event

This is an Event Handler


Making a Button

• The button symbol’s timeline contains the four button states:

1. Up - original

2. Over - rollover

3. Down - clicked

4. Hit – button area


Animating a Button

• To create an animated button, put an animated Movie Clip symbol in the appropriate button state

• To create a button with a sound effect, put a sound in the appropriate button state


Invisible Buttons

• To create an invisible button, draw any shape in the Hit button state only, leaving all other button states blank


Review Questions

Documents

Macromedia Flash 5