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In this course, author Anastasia McCune provides the basic building blocks a designer, even one who's never touched Flash, needs to create animation projects or build a web presence. This course works for all Creative Suite versions of Flash and demonstrates how to create graphics, transform them to symbols, instantly move and morph objects with tweens, and incorporate text and audio. The final chapters address slightly more advanced topics such as adding links and play/pause controls to a project with ActionScript, as well as how to embed video into a Flash project.
Topics include:

    Choosing the type of document to work with
    Changing document settings and orientation
    Importing bitmaps and vector files
    Organizing layers
    Understanding the timeline, frames, and keyframes
    Creating shapes
    Understanding the three symbol types (graphics, buttons, and movie clips)
    Defining motion and shape tweens
    Nesting timelines
    Using effects and masks
    Working with text
    Importing and adding audio and video
    Publishing your project