Macromedia Flash MX Design Professional

Macromedia Flash MXGETTING STARTED WITH

2Getting Started with Macromedia Flash MX

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Optimized for the web

Flash’s Native format is vector images, which reduce the size of graphic files.– Vectors are scalable

Flash provides streaming content over the internet– instead of waiting for the entire contents

of a web page to load.

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toolbox

stage

timeline

panels

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An object in a keyframe

Object on the stage

Keyframerepresentingobject

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Motion animation

Arrow between keyframes indicates motion animation

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Understanding the Timeline

Playhead FramesFrame View

Icon

Status BarLayers

Understanding how to read the timeline can help you determine what’s happening in your movie frame by frame

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Adjusting the Timeline view

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Modifying the frame rateChange movie dimensions

Adjust theframe rate

Adjust theBackgroundcolor