CHAPTER 4

Getting Started with the Timeline

The primary reason you want to use Flash is for its animation capabilities. The ability to create a compelling narrative using the elements of story, art, music, and video rendered over time is quite powerful, and Flash is a one-stop environment for doing this work. Given this, the timeline, the tool you use to move objects over time, may be the singularly most important feature of Flash.

  • Becoming acquainted with the timeline
  • Working with different frame types
  • Copying and deleting frames
  • Working with layers
  • Aligning objects with snapping

Becoming Acquainted with the Timeline

image When working in the Essentials ...

Get Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Essentials now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.