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CHAPTER 1
Working in Flash
Macromedia Flash MX movies are graphics, text, animation, and applications for Web sites. They
consist primarily of vector graphics, but they can also contain imported video, bitmap graphics,
and sounds. Flash movies can incorporate interactivity to permit input from viewers, and you can
create nonlinear movies that can interact with other Web applications. Web designers use Flash to
create navigation controls, animated logos, long-form animations with synchronized sound, and
even complete, sensory-rich Web sites. Flash movies use compact vector graphics, so they
download rapidly and scale to the viewer’s screen size.
You’ve probably watched and interacted with Flash movies on many Web sites. Millions of Web
users have received the Flash Player with their computers, browsers, or system software; others
have downloaded it from the Macromedia Web site. The Flash Player resides on the local
computer, where it plays back movies in browsers or as stand-alone applications. Viewing a Flash
movie on the Flash Player is similar to viewing a DVD on a DVD player—the Flash Player is the
device used to display the movies you create in the Flash authoring application.
Flash documents, which have the .fla filename extension, contain all the information required to
develop, design, and test interactive content. Flash documents are not the movies the Flash Player
displays. Instead, you publish your FLA documents as Flash movies, which have the .swf filename
extension and contain only the information needed to display the movie.
For an interactive introduction to Flash, choose Help > Lessons > Getting Started with Flash.
Artwork in Flash
Flash provides a variety of methods for creating original artwork and importing artwork from
other applications. You can create objects with the drawing and painting tools, as well as modify
the attributes of existing objects. See Chapter 3, “Drawing,” on page 59 and Chapter 4, “Working
with Color,” on page 77.
You can also import vector graphics, bitmap graphics, and video from other applications and
modify the imported graphics in Flash.See “Using Imported Artwork and Video” under Help >
Using Flash.
Note: You can also import sound files, as described in “Importing sounds” under Help > Using Flash.
Animation in Flash
Using Flash, you can animate objects to make them appear to move across the Stage and/or
change their shape, size, color, opacity, rotation, and other properties. You can create
frame-by-frame animation, in which you create a separate image for each frame. You can also
create tweened animation, in which you create the first and last frames of an animation and direct
Flash to create the frames in between.
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