Macromedia Flash 5.ppt

Macromedia Flash 5 Intermediate Level Course Animation Basics Previewing The Animation Onion Skin Tool 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 Scale Tween Rotation Tween Motion Tween Modifiers Motion Tween Effects The Effects Panel contains different effects: None Brightness Tint Alpha Advanced Color Tween 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 Shape Tween Text Tween Shape Tween Modifiers 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 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 Importing Sound Flash supports four sound file types: MP3 WAV AIFF AU Using Sound Using the Sound Panel, you control what sounds play and w