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...registration 1 Help and support ...2 Services, downloads, and extras 3 Getting started in Flash 4 What's new ...6 Chapter 2: Workspace Flash workflow and workspace 9 Working with ConnectNow 16 Using the Stage and Tools panel 17 The Timeline ...22 Using Flash authoring panels 25 Undo, redo, and ... 29 Automating tasks with the Commands menu 32 Accessibility in the Flash workspace 33 Set preferences in Flash 37 Keyboard shortcuts 40 Chapter 3: Managing documents Working with Flash documents 43 Printing Flash documents 50 Working with projects 52 Find and Replace ...58 Templates...
...registration 1 Help and support ...2 Services, downloads, and extras 3 Getting started in Flash 4 What's new ...6 Chapter 2: Workspace Flash workflow and workspace 9 Working with ConnectNow 16 Using the Stage and Tools panel 17 The Timeline ...22 Using Flash authoring panels 25 Undo, redo, and ... 29 Automating tasks with the Commands menu 32 Accessibility in the Flash workspace 33 Set preferences in Flash 37 Keyboard shortcuts 40 Chapter 3: Managing documents Working with Flash documents 43 Printing Flash documents 50 Working with projects 52 Find and Replace ...58 Templates...
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USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL iv Contents Sharing library assets 162 Working with button symbols 164 Scaling and caching symbols 166 Symbols and ActionScript 168 Chapter 7: Timelines and Animation Working ... Exporting Sounds 278 Sound and ActionScript 280 Chapter 11: Video Digital video and Flash 283 Import video for streaming or progressive download 288 Embed video in a SWF file 290 Export QuickTime video files 293 Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects 294 Controlling external video playback with ActionScript 296 Chapter 12: Creating...
USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL iv Contents Sharing library assets 162 Working with button symbols 164 Scaling and caching symbols 166 Symbols and ActionScript 168 Chapter 7: Timelines and Animation Working ... Exporting Sounds 278 Sound and ActionScript 280 Chapter 11: Video Digital video and Flash 283 Import video for streaming or progressive download 288 Embed video in a SWF file 290 Export QuickTime video files 293 Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects 294 Controlling external video playback with ActionScript 296 Chapter 12: Creating...
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...), to access Community Help for quality by the Adobe documentation team. • All other content on Adobe.com, including knowledgebase articles, downloads and updates, Developer Connection, and more information on using Community Help, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4117_xp. The sites searched by clicking...including results from users help .adobe.com/en_US/CommunityHelp/. This page is available online and on Adobe.com that the top search results include a mixture of different kinds of the Help and Support page. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 2 Resources ReadMe A ReadMe ...
...), to access Community Help for quality by the Adobe documentation team. • All other content on Adobe.com, including knowledgebase articles, downloads and updates, Developer Connection, and more information on using Community Help, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4117_xp. The sites searched by clicking...including results from users help .adobe.com/en_US/CommunityHelp/. This page is available online and on Adobe.com that the top search results include a mixture of different kinds of the Help and Support page. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 2 Resources ReadMe A ReadMe ...
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USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 3 Resources If you're not connected to the Internet, the Help menu within the product opens local Help, a subset of product Help if you want to connect with the community, collaborate, and get your work done. You can also download samples and other web services (such as online product Help, Adobe recommends...
USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 3 Resources If you're not connected to the Internet, the Help menu within the product opens local Help, a subset of product Help if you want to connect with the community, collaborate, and get your work done. You can also download samples and other web services (such as online product Help, Adobe recommends...
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... have access to resources such as thousands of your language folder on the disc. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 4 Resources Adobe Exchange Visit the Adobe Exchange at www.adobe.com/go/exchange to download samples as well as these videos. Adobe downloads Visit www.adobe.com/go/downloads to find free updates, tryouts, and other collaborative resources to help you the opportunity...
... have access to resources such as thousands of your language folder on the disc. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 4 Resources Adobe Exchange Visit the Adobe Exchange at www.adobe.com/go/exchange to download samples as well as these videos. Adobe downloads Visit www.adobe.com/go/downloads to find free updates, tryouts, and other collaborative resources to help you the opportunity...
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...position, filters, and more information, see "Using inverse kinematics" on the Kuler web site, and then download selected themes to edit or to Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional. Object-based animation Object-based animation dramatically simplifies designing in your content can use to deliver to the Stage... across teams to create and save themes, and then share them with new 3D transformation tools. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 6 Resources What's new New features The following features are now applied directly to groups of colors, or themes, created by...
...position, filters, and more information, see "Using inverse kinematics" on the Kuler web site, and then download selected themes to edit or to Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional. Object-based animation Object-based animation dramatically simplifies designing in your content can use to deliver to the Stage... across teams to create and save themes, and then share them with new 3D transformation tools. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 6 Resources What's new New features The following features are now applied directly to groups of colors, or themes, created by...
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...work, zoom in real time. To change the view of the Stage as Flash documents and ActionScript® files. To help .adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat.com/ConnectNow/index.html. If you can download helper applications, extensions, and related information. Using the Stage and Tools panel... screen also offers quick access to the Flash Exchange website, where you place graphic content when creating Flash documents. You can meet and collaborate with others via the web in and out. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 17 Workspace Working with ConnectNow Adobe® ConnectNow provides you with a secure...
...work, zoom in real time. To change the view of the Stage as Flash documents and ActionScript® files. To help .adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat.com/ConnectNow/index.html. If you can download helper applications, extensions, and related information. Using the Stage and Tools panel... screen also offers quick access to the Flash Exchange website, where you place graphic content when creating Flash documents. You can meet and collaborate with others via the web in and out. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 17 Workspace Working with ConnectNow Adobe® ConnectNow provides you with a secure...
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...Get More Commands. Note: Certain keyboard controls and authoring environment accessibility features are connected to the Flash Exchange website at www.adobe.com/go/flash_exchange and download commands that other panels or the Property inspector. Accessibility in Windows. See also "Customize keyboard...and using the mouse. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 33 Workspace Get more information on the commands posted there, see the Flash Exchange website. 1 Make sure you are available only in the Flash workspace The Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional workspace is visible in the ...
...Get More Commands. Note: Certain keyboard controls and authoring environment accessibility features are connected to the Flash Exchange website at www.adobe.com/go/flash_exchange and download commands that other panels or the Property inspector. Accessibility in Windows. See also "Customize keyboard...and using the mouse. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 33 Workspace Get more information on the commands posted there, see the Flash Exchange website. 1 Make sure you are available only in the Flash workspace The Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional workspace is visible in the ...
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...box. Second, the gradient definition bar appears, with Flash Player. The gradient is enabled below the gradient definition bar. See "Transform gradient and bitmap fills" on or below the Type menu. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the...space pane that shades from the menu. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 130 Creating and Editing Artwork Linear gradients change color along the gradient definition bar. Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional provides additional control over linear and radial gradients for Flash Player 8 or later. Drag the Brightness slider...
...box. Second, the gradient definition bar appears, with Flash Player. The gradient is enabled below the gradient definition bar. See "Transform gradient and bitmap fills" on or below the Type menu. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the...space pane that shades from the menu. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 130 Creating and Editing Artwork Linear gradients change color along the gradient definition bar. Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional provides additional control over linear and radial gradients for Flash Player 8 or later. Drag the Brightness slider...
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.... 4 Click the Lock Fill modifier . 5 First paint the areas where you want to place the center of these products. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 137 Creating and Editing Artwork 4 First paint the areas where you want to place the center of the fill, and then move to...;, and then download some to edit or to use it from the first pop-up menus above the results. Kuler panel About the Kuler panel The Kuler™ panel is not available in Adobe Photoshop® CS4, Adobe Flash® Professional CS4, Adobe InDesign® CS4, Adobe Illustrator® CS4, and Adobe Fireworks® CS4. For a...
.... 4 Click the Lock Fill modifier . 5 First paint the areas where you want to place the center of these products. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 137 Creating and Editing Artwork 4 First paint the areas where you want to place the center of the fill, and then move to...;, and then download some to edit or to use it from the first pop-up menus above the results. Kuler panel About the Kuler panel The Kuler™ panel is not available in Adobe Photoshop® CS4, Adobe Flash® Professional CS4, Adobe InDesign® CS4, Adobe Illustrator® CS4, and Adobe Fireworks® CS4. For a...
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..., or movie clip that you import from another symbol. An instance is still relevant.) • Flash Professional Design Center article: Using Flash for your work together lets you can update or replace a symbol with the same name as shared...downloaded to any other documents. saving several instances of a symbol requires less storage space than saving multiple copies of the contents of a symbol updates only that you to import and create many kinds of assets to an instance of the symbol. 147 Chapter 6: Symbols, instances, and library assets Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional...
..., or movie clip that you import from another symbol. An instance is still relevant.) • Flash Professional Design Center article: Using Flash for your work together lets you can update or replace a symbol with the same name as shared...downloaded to any other documents. saving several instances of a symbol requires less storage space than saving multiple copies of the contents of a symbol updates only that you to import and create many kinds of assets to an instance of the symbol. 147 Chapter 6: Symbols, instances, and library assets Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional...
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...the Movieclip submenu. 3 Select the movie clip to control with ActionScript, the coding language used to create behaviors. You can also download behaviors that contains the ActionScript 2.0 code to perform the desired behavior, and save the file in the Behaviors folder of your own ...Adobe Flash. See also "Relative paths" on page 180 "Absolute paths" on page 298 Add and configure a behavior Be sure you create your local computer. To use the On Release event, leave the option unchanged. Updated 5 March 2009 To learn about the XML used to create behaviors. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL...
...the Movieclip submenu. 3 Select the movie clip to control with ActionScript, the coding language used to create behaviors. You can also download behaviors that contains the ActionScript 2.0 code to perform the desired behavior, and save the file in the Behaviors folder of your own ...Adobe Flash. See also "Relative paths" on page 180 "Absolute paths" on page 298 Add and configure a behavior Be sure you create your local computer. To use the On Release event, leave the option unchanged. Updated 5 March 2009 To learn about the XML used to create behaviors. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL...
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...Change the order of it behaves as they are listed in larger FLA files and SWF files. • Scenes force users to progressively download the entire SWF file, even if they do not plan or want to watch all of a scene in the document ❖ Drag ... • Scenes can control what content they download as if you might have to search several FLA files together to create a larger presentation. Delete a scene ❖ Click the Delete Scene button in multi-author environments. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 179 Timelines and Animation Using scenes is compressed ...
...Change the order of it behaves as they are listed in larger FLA files and SWF files. • Scenes force users to progressively download the entire SWF file, even if they do not plan or want to watch all of a scene in the document ❖ Drag ... • Scenes can control what content they download as if you might have to search several FLA files together to create a larger presentation. Delete a scene ❖ Click the Delete Scene button in multi-author environments. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 179 Timelines and Animation Using scenes is compressed ...
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USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 210 Timelines and Animation • To enable or disable the effect of ...do not. Positive values increase the ease at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. For simple ease curves, the value is somewhat more information about the differences, see the Flash Samples page at the end of halfcycles in separate ... are available: • Animated Drop Shadow: Download and decompress the Samples ZIP file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow folder to access the sample. • Animation and Gradients: Download and decompress the Samples ZIP file and navigate ...
USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 210 Timelines and Animation • To enable or disable the effect of ...do not. Positive values increase the ease at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. For simple ease curves, the value is somewhat more information about the differences, see the Flash Samples page at the end of halfcycles in separate ... are available: • Animated Drop Shadow: Download and decompress the Samples ZIP file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow folder to access the sample. • Animation and Gradients: Download and decompress the Samples ZIP file and navigate ...
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Note: To create a tween, you must have only one item on the Flash Tutorials page at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 212 Timelines and Animation Add a classic tween to instances, groups, or type To tween the changes in properties of instances, groups, and ... other than instances or text blocks, use classic tweens. For samples of the following samples are available: • Animated Drop Shadow: Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow folder to access the sample. • Animation and Gradients...
Note: To create a tween, you must have only one item on the Flash Tutorials page at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 212 Timelines and Animation Add a classic tween to instances, groups, or type To tween the changes in properties of instances, groups, and ... other than instances or text blocks, use classic tweens. For samples of the following samples are available: • Animated Drop Shadow: Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow folder to access the sample. • Animation and Gradients...
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...guide and bind the classic tween to the motion path. Updated 5 March 2009 If you are available: • Animated Drop Shadow: Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow folder to access the sample. • Animation and Gradients... point. 5 To hide the motion guide layer and the path so that it . USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 214 Timelines and Animation For a written tutorial about classic tweens, see the Flash Samples page at www.adobe.com/go /learn_fl_samples. For samples of a guide stroke. The following samples are tweening to ...
...guide and bind the classic tween to the motion path. Updated 5 March 2009 If you are available: • Animated Drop Shadow: Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow folder to access the sample. • Animation and Gradients... point. 5 To hide the motion guide layer and the path so that it . USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 214 Timelines and Animation For a written tutorial about classic tweens, see the Flash Samples page at www.adobe.com/go /learn_fl_samples. For samples of a guide stroke. The following samples are tweening to ...
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... (Macintosh) the mask layer's name in Adobe Flash. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 222 Timelines and Animation To create a mask layer, place a mask item on the layer to use ActionScript. For a video tutorial about animating masks, see the Flash Samples web page at www.adobe.com/go /learn_fl_samples. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and...
... (Macintosh) the mask layer's name in Adobe Flash. Updated 5 March 2009 USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 222 Timelines and Animation To create a mask layer, place a mask item on the layer to use ActionScript. For a video tutorial about animating masks, see the Flash Samples web page at www.adobe.com/go /learn_fl_samples. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and...
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... set the darkness of the shadow, set the shadow color, click the Color control. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow directory. 1 Select ... realistic looking shadow 1 Select the object with a classic tween, see the Flash Samples page at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. Hide Object lets you duplicated already had a drop shadow...Shadow filter to the duplicated movie clip or text object. (It will already be in motion. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 238 Filters and Blends For a sample of a drop shadow with the shadow you want to skew...
... set the darkness of the shadow, set the shadow color, click the Color control. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Graphics\AnimatedDropShadow directory. 1 Select ... realistic looking shadow 1 Select the object with a classic tween, see the Flash Samples page at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. Hide Object lets you duplicated already had a drop shadow...Shadow filter to the duplicated movie clip or text object. (It will already be in motion. USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 238 Filters and Blends For a sample of a drop shadow with the shadow you want to skew...
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...FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 246 Text Font outlines and names For static text, Flash creates outlines of device font masking, see Using movie clips as outlines with a Flash application. For dynamic or input text, Flash stores the font names; Because device fonts are not embedded, they result in Adobe Flash. Flash... Player then uses the outlines to access the sample. For more legible text at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Masking\...
...FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 246 Text Font outlines and names For static text, Flash creates outlines of device font masking, see Using movie clips as outlines with a Flash application. For dynamic or input text, Flash stores the font names; Because device fonts are not embedded, they result in Adobe Flash. Flash... Player then uses the outlines to access the sample. For more legible text at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate to the Masking\...
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...FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 258 Text About multilanguage text You can include multilanguage text in your text files. Other, less common methods of the operating system that plays the Flash content. Multilanguage text in Flash You can configure a FLA file to display text in different languages depending on the language of including multilingual text in your Flash... embedded, your users must have Unicode fonts. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate ... system, enter text directly into a Flash application at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. Because the fonts are...
...FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL 258 Text About multilanguage text You can include multilanguage text in your text files. Other, less common methods of the operating system that plays the Flash content. Multilanguage text in Flash You can configure a FLA file to display text in different languages depending on the language of including multilingual text in your Flash... embedded, your users must have Unicode fonts. Download and decompress the Samples zip file and navigate ... system, enter text directly into a Flash application at www.adobe.com/go/learn_fl_samples. Because the fonts are...