LightSpeed Basic Animation in Flash 8 for Beginners | Part-5
Basic Animation in Flash 8 for Beginners Now that you know a lot of necessary information about animations in Flash 8, this blog post will focus on an essential topic: The Timeline and the Layers. This post will also focus on another great feature of Flash 8, the Onion Skin Feature. You will also get to know about the Masking Layer feature. Let's Get Started The Timeline The Timeline basically, helps you to organize the contents of a Flash movie. It contains layers for holding the materials on the Stage. The Timeline shows frames as a series of rectangles in each layer. Every fifth Frame has a light grey fill and the frame number. Frames with black dots (•) are keyframes . The red rectangle in the header with a black frame and red vertical line below it indicates the Playhead . That is the Frame currently on the Stage. The frame rate shows the number of frames per second ( fps ) your animation will play. The steps to insert a frame in a Flash 8 movie: 1. Select...
