MULTIMEDIA CREATING CLIPPINGS: Once you've created a symbol, you can create instances of that symbol wherever you

like throughout the movie, including inside other symbols. To create a new instance of a symbol: 1)Select a layer in the Timeline Flash can lace instances only in keyframes, always on the current layer. !f you don't select a keyframe, the instance will be added to the first keyframe to the left of the current frame. ")#hoose $indow % &ibrary to o en the library. ')(rag the symbol from the library to the Stage. ))!f you created an instance of a gra hic symbol, choose !nsert % Frame to add the number of frames that will contain the gra hic symbol. *ach symbol has a uni+ue Timeline and Stage, com lete with layers. $hen you create a symbol, you choose how the symbol will behave, de ending on how you want to use it in the movie. ,se gra hic symbols for static images and to create reusable ieces of animation that are tied to the Timeline of the main movie. -ra hic symbols o erate in sync with the Timeline of the main movie. !nteractive controls and sounds won't work in a gra hic symbol's animation se+uence. ,se button symbols to create interactive buttons in the movie that res ond to mouse clicks or rollovers or other actions. .ou define the gra hics associated with various button states, and then assign actions to a button instance. ,se movie cli symbols to create reusable ieces of animation. /ovie cli s have their own multiframe Timeline that lays inde endent of the main movie's Timeline0think of them as mini1movies inside a main movie that can contain interactive controls, sounds, and even other movie cli instances. .ou can also lace movie cli instances inside the Timeline of a button symbol to create animated buttons. .ou can assign cli arameters 2variables with values) to a movie cli to create a 3smart3 cli . .ou can also add cli actions and scri t the smart cli to create interface elements0such as radio buttons, o 1u menus, or

toolti s0that res ond to mouse clicks and other events. For more information, see 4ctionScri t 5el . .ou create animation by changing the content of successive frames. .ou can make an ob6ect move across the Stage, increase or decrease its si7e, rotate, change color, fade in or out, or change sha e. #hanges can occur inde endently of, or in concert with, other changes. For e8am le, you can make an ob6ect rotate and fade in as it moves across the Stage.

There are two methods for creating an animation se+uence in Flash9 frame1by1 frame animation and tweened animation. !n frame1by1frame animation you create the image in every frame. !n tweened animation, you create starting and ending frames and let Flash create the frames in between. Flash varies the ob6ect's si7e, rotation, color, or other attributes evenly between the starting and ending frames to create the a earance of movement. Tweened animation is an effective way to create movement and changes over time while minimi7ing file si7e. !n tweened animation, Flash stores only the values for the changes between frames. !n frame1by1frame animation, Flash stores the values for each com lete frame. For an interactive introduction to animation, choose 5el % &essons % 4nimation. Creating eyframes 4 keyframe is a frame where you define changes in the animation. $hen you create frame1by1frame animation, every frame is a keyframe. !n keyframe 2tweened) animation, you define keyframes at im ortant oints in the animation and let Flash create the content of frames in between. Flash dis lays the inter olated frames of a tweened animation as light blue or green with an arrow drawn between keyframes. Flash redraws sha es in each keyframe. .ou should create keyframes only at those oints in the artwork where something changes. :eyframes are indicated in the Timeline9 a keyframe with content on it is re resented by a solid circle, and an em ty keyframe is re resented by a vertical line before the frame. Subse+uent frames that you add to the same layer will have the same content as the keyframe. To create a eyframe! "o one of t#e following: Select a frame in the Timeline and choose !nsert % :eyframe. ;ight1click 2$indows) or #ontrol1click 2/acintosh) a frame in the Timeline and choose !nsert :eyframe.

$las# "isting%is#es tweene" animation from frame&by&frame animation in t#e Timeline as follows: /otion1tweened keyframes are indicated by a black dot and intermediate tweened frames have a black arrow with a light blue background. Sha e1tweened keyframes are indicated by a black dot and intermediate frames have a black arrow with a light green background. 4 dashed line indicates that the final keyframe is missing.

4 single keyframe is indicated by a black dot. &ight1gray frames after a single keyframe contain the same content with no changes and have a black line with a hollow rectangle at the last frame of the s an. 4 small a indicates that the frame has been assigned a frame action with the 4ctions anel. 4 red flag indicates that the frame contains a label or comment.

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ADDING SOUNDS:

Flash offers a number of ways to use sounds. .ou can make sounds that lay continuously, inde endent of the Timeline, or you can synchroni7e animation to a sound track. .ou can attach sounds to buttons to make them more interactive, and make sounds fade in and out for a more olished sound track. .ou can use sounds in shared libraries, to link a sound from one library to multi le movies. .ou can also use sounds in Sound ob6ects, to control sound layback with 4ctionScri t. There are two ty es of sounds in Flash9 event sounds and stream sounds. 4n event sound must download com letely before it begins laying, and it continues laying until e8 licitly sto ed. Stream sounds begin laying as soon as enough data for the first few frames has been downloaded< stream sounds are synchroni7ed to the Timeline for laying on a $eb site. .ou select com ression o tions to control the +uality and si7e of sounds in e8 orted movies. .ou can select com ression o tions for individual sounds with the Sound =ro erties dialog bo8, or define settings for all sounds in the movie in the =ublish

Settings dialog bo8. For an interactive introduction to using sound in Flash, choose 5el % &essons % Sound. ADDING AUDI' 'R +IDE'9 To add sound to a movie, you assign a sound to a layer and set o tions in the Sound anel. !t is recommended that you lace each sound on a se arate layer. To a"" a so%n" to a mo,ie: . / !m ort the sound if it has not already been im orted. See !m orting Sounds. #hoose !nsert % &ayer to create a layer for the sound. $ith the new sound layer selected, drag the sound from the library onto the Stage. The sound is added to the current layer. .ou can lace multi le sounds on one layer, or on layers containing other ob6ects. 5owever, it is recommended that each sound be laced on a se arate layer. *ach layer acts like a se arate sound channel. The sounds on all layers are combined when you lay back the movie. 0 #hoose $indow % =anels % Sound.

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!n the Sound anel, choose a sound file from the Sound o 1u menu. #hoose an effect o tion from the *ffects o 1u menu9 None a lies no effects to the sound file. #hoose this o tion to remove reviously a lied effects. Left C#annel3Rig#t C#annel lays sound in the left or right channel only. $a"e Left to Rig#t3$a"e Rig#t to Left shifts the sound from one channel to the other. $a"e In gra"%ally increases the am litude of a sound over its duration. $a"e '%t gra"%ally decreases the am litude of a sound over its duration. C%stom lets you create your own !n and Out oints of sound using the *dit *nvelo e. See ,sing the sound1editing controls.

C#oose a sync#roni5ation o6tion from t#e (ync 6o6&%6 men%: *vent synchroni7es the sound to the occurrence of an event. 4n event sound lays when its starting keyframe is first dis layed and lays in its entirety, inde endently of the Timeline, even if the movie sto s. *vent sounds are mi8ed when you lay your ublished movie. 4n e8am le of an event sound is a sound that lays when a user clicks a button. Start is the same as *vent, e8ce t that if the sound is already laying, a new instance of the sound is started. Sto silences the s ecified sound. Stream synchroni7es the sound for laying on a $eb site. Flash forces animation to kee ace with stream sounds. !f Flash can't draw animation frames +uickly enough, it ski s frames. ,nlike event sounds, stream sounds sto if the animation sto s. 4lso, a stream sound can never lay longer than the length of the frames it occu ies. Stream sounds are mi8ed when you ublish your movie. 4n e8am le of a stream sound is the voice of a character in an animation that lays in multi le frames.

Note: !f you use an /=' sound as a stream sound, you must recom ress the sound for e8 ort. See #om ressing sounds for e8 ort. 7 *nter a value for &oo to s ecify the number of times the sound should loo . For continuous lay, enter a number large enough to lay the sound for an e8tended duration. For e8am le, to loo a 1>1second sound for 1> minutes, enter ?@. Note: &oo ing stream sounds is not recommended. !f a stream sound is set to loo , frames are added to the movie and the file si7e is increased by the number of times the sound is loo ed. Im6orting (o%n"s .ou use the File % !m ort command to bring $4A 2$indows only), 4!FF 2/acintosh only), or /=' 2either latform) sounds into Flash, 6ust as you would im ort any other file ty e. !f you have BuickTime ) or later installed on your system, you can im ort these additional sound file formats9

Sound (esigner !! 2/acintosh only) Sound Only BuickTime /ovies 2$indows or /acintosh) Sun 4, 2$indows or /acintosh) System C Sounds 2/acintosh only) $4A 2$indows or /acintosh) Flash stores sounds in the library along with bitma s and symbols. 4s with gra hic symbols, you need only one co y of a sound file to use that sound in any number of ways in your movie. !f you want to share sounds among Flash movies, you can include sounds in shared libraries. See ,sing shared libraries. To use a sound in a shared library, you assign the sound file an identifier string in the Symbol &inkage =ro erties dialog bo8. The identifier can also be used to access the sound as an ob6ect in 4ctionScri t. For information on ob6ects in 4ctionScri t, see 4ctionScri t 5el . Sounds can use considerable amounts of disk s ace and ;4/. /=' sound data, however, is com ressed and smaller than $4A or 4!FF sound data. -enerally, when using $4A or 4!FF files, it's best to use 1?1bit "" k57 mono sounds 2stereo uses twice as much data as mono), but Flash can im ort either D1 or 1?1bit sounds at sam le rates of 11 k57, "" k57, or )) k57. Flash can convert sounds to lower sam le rates on e8 ort. See #om ressing sounds for e8 ort. Note: Sounds recorded in formats that are not multi les of 11 k57 2such as D, '", or E? k57) are resam led when im orted into Flash. !f you want to add effects to sounds in Flash, it's best to im ort 1?1bit sounds. !f you have limited ;4/, kee your sound cli s short or work with D1bit sounds instead of 1?1bit sounds. To im6ort a so%n": . #hoose File % !m ort. !n the !m ort dialog bo8, locate and o en the desired sound file. The im orted sound is laced in the library for the current movie Creating interacti,e mo,ies o,er,iew !n sim le animation, Flash lays the scenes and frames of a movie se+uentially. !n an interactive movie, your audience uses the keyboard, the mouse, or both to 6um to

different arts of a movie, move ob6ects, enter information in forms, and erform many other interactive o erations. .ou create interactive movies by setting u actions0sets of instructions written in 4ctionScri t that run when a s ecific event occurs. The events that can trigger an action are either the layhead reaching a frame, or the user clicking a button or ressing keys on the keyboard. .ou set u actions in the 4ctions anel for a button, a movie cli , or a frame. ,sing the 4ctions anel controls in Formal /ode, you can insert actions without having to write any 4ctionScri t< if you're roficient in 4ctionScri t, you can write your own scri t. !nstructions can be in the form of a single action, such as instructing a movie to sto laying, or a series of actions, such as first evaluating a condition and then erforming an action. /any actions re+uire little rogramming e8 erience to set u . Other actions re+uire some familiarity with rogramming languages and are intended for advanced develo ment< for information on creating advanced actions, see 4ctionScri t 5el . Playing an" sto66ing mo,ies ,nless instructed otherwise, once a movie starts, it lays through every frame in the Timeline. .ou can sto or start a movie at s ecific intervals by using the =lay and Sto actions. For e8am le, you can sto a movie at the end of a scene before roceeding to the ne8t scene. Once sto ed, a movie must be e8 licitly started again, using the =lay action. The =lay and Sto actions are most commonly used to control movie cli s with buttons, or to control the main Timeline. The movie cli you want to control must have an instance name, must be targeted, and must be resent in the Timeline. To start or sto6 a mo,ie: . / Select the frame, button instance, or movie cli instance to which you will assign the action. #hoose $indow % 4ctions to dis lay the 4ctions anel. !n the Toolbo8 list, click the Gasic 4ctions category to dis lay the basic actions, and select the Sto action. Flash inserts 4ctionScri t similar to the following in the 4ctions list9 on#li *vent 2load) H sto 2)< I where on#li *vent 2load) indicates that when the movie loads, Flash should e8ecute the instruction sto to sto the movie.

Note: *m ty arentheses after an action indicate that it's a method 2ca ability) that has no arameters or arguments. To 6lay a mo,ie cli6: . / Select the movie cli you want to lay, or select the button that controls the layback. #hoose $indow % 4ctions to dis lay the 4ctions anel. !n the Toolbo8 list, click the Gasic 4ctions category to dis lay the basic actions, and select the =lay action. Flash enters 4ctionScri t similar to the following in the 4ctions list9 on 2release) H lay 2)< I where on2release) indicates that when the button is released, Flash should e8ecute the instruction lay to lay the movie.

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The simulation of a real environment for training and education. The develo ment of an imagined environment for a game or interactive story.

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EM;EDDING +RML IN A )E; PAGE:

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middle level, it can be an entire scene or virtual world that the user enters and interacts with. 5igh1end A; re+uires the user to wear s ecial goggles and gloves that make the illusion of reality more com lete. Screen1based A;, including single1ob6ect visuali7ation and virtual worlds, redominates on the $eb. /ore so histicated gloves1and1goggles A; is the rovince of games or s eciali7ed a lications like military training, which are not ty ically $eb1 based. The interactive nature of A; allows users to get e8actly the information they want in an intuitive fashion, without having to search through databases or F4Bs. The three1 dimensional nature of A; can enhance the resentation of the information, whether for abstract re resentations 2 resenting data in a '( interactive format) or for de icting actual ob6ects, eo le or laces. IN*ERENT LIMITATI'N( '$ +R =roblems of s eed and resolution will be alleviated over time as standard1issue deskto com uters gain s eed and are o timi7ed for '( gra hics. 5igher1bandwidth and more reliable connections to the !nternet will also become more common. *ven so, consumers will often need to get hands1on e8 erience with a roduct before they are willing to urchase it. Garring cumbersome and e8 ensive gloves and goggles, A; is still strictly an audiovisual e8 erience. *ven gloves have serious limitations, they can't rovide a tactile e8 erience of the te8ture of clothing. For can A; resent the fragrance of a erfume or the taste of food. The need for hands1on e8 erience is one reason why car sales on the $eb have been much sluggish9 /ost buyers want to test drive before they buy. !t would take very so histicated A; to du licate the test1drive e8 erience. 4nother roblem is that A; content can't be viewed with 6ust a standard browser. .ou need a s ecial viewer 1 either a s ecial1 ur ose browser or a lug1in. That wouldn't be so bad if one viewer could handle all A; content, but that's far from the case. !nstead, there are many viewers, each of which has to be downloaded and installed. $hichever viewer you've already downloaded, you'll robably need another one at the ne8t A; site you go to.