How Do You Build Complex Flash Introductions?
Complex Flash introductions can jazz up any website. Just a few seconds of music and motion turn a plain home page into a multimedia showcase. Creating Flash introductions provides a good starting point for mastering the basics of multimedia software. Create a new Flash ActionScript 2.0 File. Choose “Document” from the Modify menu to set the movie size and frame rate (playback speed.) Most movies play at 12 frames per second. Set the length of your introduction. Multiply the number of frames per second by the number of seconds you want your introduction to play. Click on the timeline frame that corresponds to the length of your animation. Choose “Timeline” and then “Frame” from the Insert Menu. Add layers to the timeline for the main elements of your introduction: animation elements, sound, text and your ActionScript code. You can click on the “Insert Layer” icon or select “Timeline” and then “Layer” from the Insert Menu. If you want more than one sound, or animation, create a separate
