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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...

Why we at LightSpeedAC use a VPN If you are a regular surfer on the Internet and are interested in the ever-growing technology (which may be the case as you are on a tech blog), you might have come across the term 'VPN'. This blog post will focus on the introduction to the VPN, the correct usage of a VPN, and we have a special surprise for you- read the entire post to know more! What is a VPN? A VPN or a Virtual Private Network is a safe, encrypted connection over a less secure network, such as the public internet. A VPN uses tunnelling protocols to encrypt data and the sending end and decrypt it at the receiving end. Let me simplify it further for you. A VPN packs your data into a suitcase (data is encrypted) when you send it over a less secure network. Now, no other application or any dangerous hacker can access your data in your 'suitcase'. Only when your data reaches its destination, the suitcase is opened (data is decrypted), and the information is now v...

z Basic Animation in Flash 8 for Beginners Now that you know about the various constituents of a Flash movie, the two types of basic animations and the tools required to make up a good Flash Animation, this blog post will tell you about various methods of customizing objects in Flash 8, and much more! If you're new here or visiting after a long time, consider visiting the Part-1 of this series and the Part-2 of the series.  Let Us Get Started Changing the Color or Transparency of an Instance of Symbol You know that an instance is an occurrence of a symbol. Each time you insert a symbol in a Flash movie, you create an instance of that symbol.  You can modify the colour properties of a particular instance or change its brightness or transparency.  Changing the Color Properties of an instance of a symbol 1. Use the Selection Tool ( Arrow ) to select an instance of the symbol.  2. Click the drop-down menu arrow for colour in the Property ...

Basics in Animation for Beginners in Flash 8 Now that you know about the basics of Flash 8 and the two basic types of tweening, get to know about the few basic tools that you will need to make a basic Flash 8 movie. If you're new around here, check out the Part-1 of the Basics in Animation for Beginners in Flash 8 .    Check out our blog LightSpeedAC for more amazing content.  Before we get started, even if you're not new around here, I would recommend you to revisit the Part-1 to revise the basic constituents of Flash 8.  Let Us Get Started This blog post will focus on the main basic tools that you need to use to make a simple, yet good Flash movie/animation.  1. Pen Tool - The Pen Tool is used to draw precise paths, like straight lines and smooth curves. You can draw straight lines or curves with this tool, and later adjust the angle and length of straight-line segments and the slope of curves.  The steps to use the Pen Tool are:...

Basics of Animation in Flash 8 for Beginners  This blog will focus on the introduction to Flash 8 for Beginners, uses of Flash 8 in this ever-growing technological world. This blog will also include basic things that you need to know as a beginner in Flash 8 and the basic types of animations in Flash 8. If you're reading this blog post, you must have Flash 8 installed. You can get your 30-day free trial on Adobe's website and need to later buy it. You will be given a serial code. What is Flash 8? Macromedia Flash is a program that is used in creating interactive, and animated media such as motion graphics, videos, presentations and websites. You can control an object’s actions and behaviors using the Behavior panel and the Timeline. For more advanced control you can use Actionscript, Flash's programming language that is very similar to Javascript. Flash 8 or Macromedia Flash 8 was developed by Macromedia. Macromedia was acquired by Adobe in December of 2005. Sinc...

Basic Animation in Flash 8 for Beginners Now that you know about the various methods to customize objects and know how to add text to the Flash movie, this blog post will tell you about different animations with text. If you're new around here, do check out our blog LightSpeedAC for amazing and mind-blowing content. Do visit the Part-1 , Part-2 and the Part-3 for learning more and revisiting (for old viewers). Let Us Get Started Animating Text with Timeline Effects Flash provides built-in Timeline Effects that help you create animations by selecting just a few options. You can apply effects like Fade In, Fade Out, Explode, etc. Below are the steps to apply Timeline Effects to text: 1. Create a new Flash document. Using the Text Tool , type any desired text on the Stage. 2. Right-click the text. From the shortcut menu that appears, select Timeline Effects . Click Effects on the drop-down menu. Then, in the drop-down list, select the desired effect.  3. Now, t...

LightSpeed intro to ConvNets ________________________________________________ Unless you're experienced or have read the LightSpeed intro to DL, please see here before reading this. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this post, you'll learn about- What are Convolutions? Why Convolutions work great (optional) Keras and TensorFlow (compulsory) How to make a Neural Network that can classify pictures depending on objects! What are ConvNets? Now, what are  ConvNets ? They are Neural Networks having Convolutions. Okay, so what are Convolution s ?  Convolutions, informally, are mathematical functions. Now, to convolve the above matrices, we take the second smaller matrix, then we imprint it on the first possible 2 by 2 chunk of the other as shown below. So, this will be the first value in the output matrix- = (4*1) + (2*0) + (0*0) + (3*1) = 7 Similarly, you may be able to calculate that the next ...

Advanced HTML Coding for Beginners Part-3 Now that you know how to beautify and step up your game with your web page and HTML Coding gets to know about some of the game-changing exclusive features of HTML which nobody will tell you about. But before that, check out Part-2 and Part-1 if you've not checked that out or are new around here.  How to view an HTML Document in a Web Browser  The Steps to view an HTML document in a web browser are given below.  1. After you are done with your HTML Document, or you want to check the output of your code, you need to first save your document. To keep your file, click the data in the tab menu at the top. 2. In the drop-down menu, click on SAVE AS.  3. In the pop-up dialogue box, choose the desired destination for the document. Now, the most important part. Give the desired name to the file and give a .html extension . By default, the extension is .txt  . Giving the .html extensi...