Exercise 64 Use the Flash Movie Explorer to examine the contents of an application to quickly locate specific elements such as instances. Use the Movie Explorer to select all instances of a specific symbol or to select a symbol in the library. Use it to print a flowchart of a scene or of the entire application. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

Terms Collapse – To change the view to hide items. Expand – To change the view to show hidden items. Hierarchical list – A diagram in which elements branch from a main element – the root – to other elements. Motion editor – A Flash feature used to modify motion paths for Flash objects. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

Symbol definition – The content that comprises a symbol. Motion presets – Predefined animations that come with Flash that you can apply to objects on the Stage. Symbol definition – The content that comprises a symbol. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

Use the Movie Explorer Use the Movie Explorer to view and organize the contents of a document, To locate an element by name, To locate all instances of a specific symbol, To select elements in the document. The Movie Explorer open in a panel and displays a hierarchical list of elements currently used in the document. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

By default, Flash displays the elements one scene at a time. You may choose to display all scenes. You may also choose to display symbol definitions in place of movie elements, or you may display both. Customize the display by selecting the specific elements you want to view: Text; graphics; buttons; movie clips; actions; and imported files. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

You can also print the Movie Explorer to generate a diagram of the document structure. The Movie Explorer is particularly useful for managing large applications created by someone else. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

Use Motion Presets Motion presets are built-in animations that you can apply to text blocks, graphics, bitmap images, or button symbols. Use the Window>Motion Preset menu command to display your choices. The Motion Presets dialog box offers two folders: Default Presets Custom Presets Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

To add the preset to the selected object, click Apply. In the Motion Preset dialog box, you can click the various presets in the Default Presets folder to see a preview of the motion before you apply it. To add the preset to the selected object, click Apply. When you apply an effect to an element, Flash inserts keyframes automatically on the current layer. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

Use the Motion Editor The Motion Editor is available in a tab behind the Timeline. You can use the Motion Editor to modify the entrance, exit, and motion of an object on the Stage. The Motion Editor enables you to change the vertical and horizontal placement of the object and make changes to the way the object moves across the Stage. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall

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Transparent Images Making an area of your image transparent does not reduce the size of the GIF. To make a part of your GIF image transparent, you use the Optimize panel to choose the colors you want to make transparent. The colors you make transparent will allow a background image to show through the color when the image is displayed on the Web. Fireworks displays a transparent area using a gray and white checkerboard pattern when you preview the image. Interlacing makes images appear first as a low quality image that improves as all of the data in the image file is downloaded. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Advanced Graphics and Animation : Lesson 7, Exercise 61

Working with JPEGs JPEG format is ideal for digital photos because it enables you to reduce the size of an image while you adjust the quality of the image. That is, you can greatly reduce the file size without much noticeable effect on the quality. JPEG compression works by replacing areas of an image with rectangular blocks that are a single color. When an image is viewed at normal size, there is typically little reduction in quality; but when you zoom the image, you can see the color blocks. You adjust the JPEG compression level using the Quality option in the Optimize panel. Higher values produce better quality. Because JPEG compression discards data, you can never recover details that are lost once you save a JPEG image that you have compressed. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Advanced Graphics and Animation : Lesson 7, Exercise 62

Movie Clip Symbol in Flash Use movie clip symbols to store animated sequences that you can reuse many times. For example, if you create an animation of a logo, you might want to use it in different places throughout an animation. You create the symbol by choosing the Insert > New Symbol command. In the Create New Symbol dialog box, enter a name for the movie symbol, select Movie clip, and click OK. Once you create the movie clip symbol, you can insert an instance in any keyframe by dragging it from the Library; you can even replace the original animated sequence with an instance. Since an instance of a movie clip symbol takes up only a single keyframe in the main Timeline, it is an efficient way to minimize file size. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Advanced Graphics and Animation : Lesson 7, Exercise 63

Movie Explorer in Flash Use the Movie Explorer to view and organize the contents of a document, to locate an element by name, to locate all instances of a specific symbol, or to select elements in the document. The Movie Explorer opens in a panel and displays a hierarchical list of elements currently used in the document. Expand or collapse the display to show or hide elements that branch off of other elements. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Advanced Graphics and Animation : Lesson 7, Exercise 64

Motion Presets Motion presets are built-in animations that you can apply to text blocks, graphics, bitmap images, or button symbols. Use the Window > Motion Preset menu command to display your choices. The Motion Presets dialog box offers two folders: Default Presets Custom Presets In the Motion Preset dialog box, you can click the various presets in the Default Presets folder to see a preview of the motion before you apply it. To add the preset to the selected object, click Apply. When you apply an effect to an element, Flash inserts keyframes automatically on the current layer. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Advanced Graphics and Animation : Lesson 7, Exercise 64