1. FLASH LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION BASIC MOTION TWEEN

2. Using Flash What is Flash?
A animation and interactive authoring program
Has tools for complex animation, as well as excellent drawing tools

3. Using Flash What can Flash MX be used for? Web sites
Web-based applications
CD-Rom and interactive applications
Video

4. How Flash Starts up Three parts to the Development Environment
Stage
Timeline
Workspace
You can display other parts of the program
The toolbox
The properties panel

5. timeline
toolbox
stage
stage
panels

6. The Stage
Contains all objects that are seen by the viewer in the final movie
You can draw objects on, or import objects to the stage

7. The Timeline
Used to organize and control the movie’s content by specifying when each object appears on the stage
Images are contained within frames, which are units of the timeline
The timeline has separate layers
The timeline has a playback head

8. The Toolbox
Contains a set of tools used to draw and edit graphics and text
Divided into four sections: Tools, View,Colors, Option
Panels, such as the Properties Panel are used to organize and modify objects and features in a movie

9. Creating a Macromedia Flash Movie
Movies are created by placing objects on the stage, editing these objects, animating them and adding interactivity
You can create graphics in Flash,or import them from another program such as Photoshop

10. Creating a Macromedia Flash Movie
Objects placed on the stage are automatically placed in a layer, and in the currently selected frame of the timeline
A keyframe represents a frame which contains an object
Always the first frame of every animation

11. An object in a keyframe Keyframe representing object
Object on the stage

12. Creating an animation A basic animation requires two keyframes
The first keyframe sets the starting position
The second keyframe sets the ending position
The number of frames between two keyframes determines the length of the animation

13. Motion animation
Arrow between keyframes indicates motion animation

14. Understanding the Timeline
Frame View Icon
Playhead
Frames
Layers
Status Bar
Understanding how to read the timeline can help you determine what’s happening in your movie frame by frame

15. Layers
Like transparent acetate sheets of content stacked on top of one another
Adding a layer causes it to be placed on top of the other layers
Can be re-ordered by dragging up or down

16. Using Frames
The timeline is made up of individual units called frames
Content is displayed in frames as the playhead moves over them when the movie plays
The status bar indicates current frame the playhead is on