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Adobe Flash
Adobe's Flash is an industry standard, multimedia graphics program which enables you to create interactive "movies" on your website. Flash is a vector based animation program. The only drawback is that it requires a proprietary plug-in but it is estimated that teh Flash Player plug-in is installed in over 90% of browsers.
The video codec H.264/AVC can be used by Flash players, Quick Time and other video players. It can provide the smallest, and produces the best image quality.
Flash movies can use action scripts to enhance their presentation.
Shortcuts
- Enter - or menu bar <Control> play - plays the flash movie
- Ctrl + Enter - opens the Flash Player window and creates a .swf file. Used to test a movie.
- Ctrl - J - modify Document Properties like width, height, background color and frame rate.
- Ctrl - Z - undo
- Select frame and object for start and end before you change
- < > - move frame
- Stroke - puts a border around the object
- scrubbing - dragging the play head along the Timeline to play frames and display their contents on the Stage
- Hold Shift while drawing square or circle - draws a perfect circle or square
- Motion Tween Animation - Draw an object (circle or square), select it
with the selection tool
and
draw a marquee around object. From the menu bar, select Insert and click Motion
Tween, drag the object to the new location. - Motion Presets - start with frame 1, from the menu bar - <window> <Motion Presets> to see the Motion Preset panel
Learning Flash
- W3Schools - Flash Tutorial
- Entheos Free Flash Resources
- Good-Tutorials Flash
- Flash and ActionScript Tutorials
- Action Script - Flash and XML
- Adobe
Links
- Flash fla files to download - added 7-19-2011
- Cool Text Effects in Flash
- Flash Photo Effects
- Flash tutorials
- Adobe Flash Tutorials
- Flash Animation Tutorials
- Flash and XML
- Flash Ripple Effect
- Flash Effects
- Google Maps API for Flash
- An easy way to create 3D geometry inside Adobe Flash CS4
- Wix - Flash website builder to create your own free website
- Hot Scripts
- flashperfection.com
- http://www.flashkit.com/index.shtml Flashkit has all sorts of stuff good and bad
- Maani Slideshow - XML and Flash GREAT
- http://www.actionscript.org/index.php Look under Tutorials for some good tips
- http://www.freeflashtutorials.com/ Some good free video based Tutorials with a lot of emphasis on drawing
- http://www.kirupa.com/ Free tutorials on lots of stuff, not just Flash, you might like their Photo Shop stuff as well
- http://learnflash.com/ - video based lessons with free weekly tips. They also have a PhotoShop companion site.
- helpful link at www.actionscript.org - from Melinda
- http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/
- http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1
- http://download.cnet.com/FreeSpin3D-Extension-for-Adobe-Flash-CS4/3000-6676_4-10965320.html
Extensions
- http://www.flash-extensions.net/
- http://demontowers.com/content.aspx?page=Free-Flash-CS3-Extensions
- http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/2009/05/24/six-great-free-flash-extensions/
- http://www.freewebmenus.com/web-menu-flash-components.html
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