1. Background Information
Flash CS5.5 Professional
Adobe
Background Information
April 1996 – FutureSplash Animator
November 1996 – 2007 – Macromedia Flash ver 1 to 0
October 2008 – Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (version 10)
CS5 was released
Currently CS6 is out but not very different

2. Flash is a set of multimedia technologies (text, audio, animation, video, interactivity) Popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components to integrate video into web pages, and to develop rich Internet Applications

3. Flash can manipulate vector and raster graphics and supports bi-directional streaming of audio and video. It contains a scripting language called ActionScript.

4. Flash files in the SWF format (Flash movies) may be an object of a web page or played on a standalone Flash Player. Saving in Flash creates a “.fla” When finished, export as a “.swf”

8. Timeline – frames, layers, playhead Tools
Workspace
Stage
Property Inspector
Timeline – frames, layers, playhead
Tools
Add layer, folder, trash a layer

10. Some samples. Then get started together
Some samples Then get started together! Open Flash Create a new Flash document