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Accelerate Your Flash Skills with This Practical, Sophisticated Guide Flash MX 2004 Accelerated: A Full-Color Guide gets you up and running in a flash through hands-on experience creating meaningful, fun projects. Its learn-by-doing approach makes the road to proficiency quick and painless. Start off with a clear-cut introduction to the essential concepts, functions, and terminology that are difficult to grasp on your own. Then, immediately put your new skills to the test by following the step-by-step practical exercises. Full-color, crisp screenshots and graphics on every page give you a clear image of what's possible. Dozens of real-world examples, from straightforward to advanced, demonstrate how to integrate techniques and pull all your knowledge together. By the end, you'll know how to enrich your website with animation, special effects, audio, and motion-a level of competency that classifies you as a skillful Flash user. Projects you will complete include: Draw an animated logo Design posters using bitmap images Animate a boy on a skateboard Move a mini-movie inside a main movie Add movie clips to buttons Attach sound to buttons Create Windowless Flash movies Simulate motion blur for a moving train Make an animated text banner with SwiSH Generate a rotating 3D logo with Swift 3D

Exploring the Flash MX 2004 Workspace

6

(40)

The Flash MX 2004 Interface

8

(6)

Installing Flash MX 2004

14

(4)

Starting and Quitting Flash MX 2004

18

(22)

Flash Drawing Techniques

40

(48)

Introduction

42

(21)

Exercise 1 Text Design

63

(5)

Let's Go Pro! A New Feature - Font Mapping

67

(1)

Exercise 2 Creating Logos with Text

68

(8)

Let's Go Pro! Making a Scrolling Text Box

72

(4)

Exercise 3 Drawing a Rabbit

76

(6)

Exercise 4 Working with Bitmap Images

82

(6)

Let's Go Pro! Importing Bitmap Images without a Background

86

(2)

Basic Elements of Animation

88

(48)

Understanding the Basic Elements

90

(19)

Exercise 1 Working with Frames

109

(4)

Exercise 2 Managing Layer Folders

113

(3)

Exercise 3 Creating and Using Graphic Symbols

116

(3)

Exercise 4 Creating Button Symbols

119

(3)

Exercise 5 Creating Blur Timeline Effect

122

(5)

Exercise 6 Inserting Attention Grabbing Effects

127

(3)

Exercise 7 Making Copies and Applying Timeline Effects

130

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Exercise 8 Using Timeline Effects to Create Text Animations

133

(3)

Animating in Flash

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Animation Methods and Characteristics

138

(3)

Exercise 1 Captivating Line Effects Using Frame-by-Frame Animation - A Rotating Earth

141

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Let's Go Pro! The Revolving Earth

145

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Exercise 2 Simulating Camera Movement with Motion Tweening

150

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Let's Go Pro! Inserting Illustrator Files

154

(2)

Exercise 3 Working with Motion Guide Layers

156

(7)

Let's Go Pro! Rotating an Object

160

(3)

Exercise 4 Shape Tweening

163

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Exercise 5 Animating Masks

166

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Exercise 6 E-Card Animation Using a Motion Guide Mask

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A Must for Designers - Using Behaviors to Learn ActionScript

180

(38)

Actions and Behaviors

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Exercise 1 Adding Actions to Frames and Buttons

194

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Exercise 2 Controlling Movie Clip Properties

197

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Exercise 3 Making a Floating Menu Panel

201

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Exercise 4 Using the fscommand to Execute an Lxternal Program

203

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Exercise 5 Creating ActionScript with the Behaviors Panel

206

(3)

Exercise 6 Using Behaviors to Control Movie Clips

209

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Exercise 7 Creating a Photo Gallery with Behaviors

212

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Exercise 8 Using the Embedded Video Behavior

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Advanced Animation Techniques

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Using Movie Clips and Templates

220

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Exercise 1 Creating a Bouncing Ball Movie Clip

223

(3)

Exercise 2 Importing Video Clips into Movie Clips

226

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Exercise 3 Making Your Own Templates

228

(2)

Exercise 4 Adding Movie Clips to Buttons

230

(3)

Exercise 5 Using Actions to Control Movie Clips

233

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Exercise 6 Using Masks and Movie Clips to Make an Ad Movie

238

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Let's Go Pro! PDF and EPS File Support

241

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Let's Go Pro! Loading PDF Files into Flash

242

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Let's Go Pro! Loading EPS Files into Flash

244

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Working with Sounds

246

(20)

Adding Sounds in Flash

248

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Exercise 1 Adding Background Music

252

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Exercise 2 Adding a Sound to a Button

254

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Exercise 3 Using Sounds in an Animation

256

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Exercise 4 Turning off Sounds within a Movie

258

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Exercise 5 Making a Jukebox

260

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Let's Go Pro! Using Behaviors to Control Sound

263

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It's a Wrap!

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From Optimization to the Final Cut

268

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Exercise 1 Using Export Movie to Make an SWF File

278

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Exercise 2 Creating Full-Screen Movies for CD-ROMs

279

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Exercise 3 Creating Transparent Flash Movies

281

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Let's Go Pro! Matching the Flash Movie Size to the Window Size

283

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