9. Integrating SWF Content from other Creative Suite Tools

Lesson Overview

When it comes to effective visual communication, keeping the attention of your audience is a challenge. Designing engaging and meaningful content requires thinking outside the box and leveraging a wide range of design tools, including vector-based animation, with a purpose—to tell a story, explain a concept, demonstrate a procedure, or simply entertain.

Flash Catalyst does an excellent job with smooth transitions using simple fades and movement. You can also produce more elaborate animation using other Adobe Creative Suite tools and then publish your movie as a SWF file. The SWF file is imported as an asset in your Flash Catalyst project.

In this lesson, you’ll learn ...

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