User Interface
The Flash workspace is comprised of a menu bar, tool palettes, and a document window that displays the current project. The document window also includes a timeline and motion editor, which is used for creating and editing animation sequences. The tool palettes allow users to access project assets (e.g., video, image, and audio files), modify objects, and alter project settings.
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Capabilities
Flash gives users complete control over object motion. The motion editor supports object-based animation, which can apply tweening (interpolated transitional frames) to objects rather than keyframes. Flash also supports Bezier splines for adding curve-based object animations to individual object attributes and includes advanced motion features to animate 2D objects through 3D space. Users may also create chain-like animation effects by linking objects in a series.
Flash provides development tools for creating custom ActionScript code, which can be used to create interactive content. The code editor supports syntax highlighting and helps reduce development time with code collapse, comment tags, and code error navigation features. Flash includes a visual user interface for script editing that enables automatic syntax completion. It also provides an advanced debugger to manually step through code and identify script errors.
User Community
The Flash community is comprised of a wide range of professional users. It is commonly used by Web developers to create website advertisements and online videos. Multimedia producers may also use Flash to create online games and other media-rich Internet applications. The Flash .SWF ("swiff") export format is also the standard video format used for YouTube videos.
 | Features: |
| - | Industry-leading authoring environment for rich Internet content |
| - | Object-based animation with motion paths |
| - | ActionScript scripting language |
| - | 3D translation and rotation tools |
| - | Support for many image, video, and audio file formats |
| - | Built-in drawing capabilities |
| Additional Related File Formats: |
| .3gp2, .3gpp, .3gpp2, .3p2, .ai, .aiff, .air, .asnd, .au, .clr, .dib, .emf, .fh10, .fh11, .fh7, .fh8, .fh9, .fls, .ft10, .ft11, .ft7, .ft8, .ft9, .html, .jpe, .jpeg, .lbi, .m2p, .mfp, .mpe, .mpeg, .pic, .pict, .pntg, .psd, .qt, .qtif, .qtm, .sd2, .sgi, .snd, .spl, .swz, .tiff, .tod, .vp6, .wmf | |
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