Getting Started
To begin, open Flash Professional 8. You will be presented with the screen shown here.
Click Flash Document. The screen shown here appears:
The upper left corner of the screen displays the Tools palette, which contains tools you can use to create or modify graphics and text. You select a tool by clicking on it. Tool modifiers for the selected tool display below the Tools palette. You use modifiers to set tool options.
The Timeline appears in the upper portion of the screen. You use the Timeline to lay out the sequence of your movie.
The Stage displays in the center of the screen. You create your movie on the Stage.
Movie Properties
You start creating your movie by setting the Frame Rate, Dimensions, Background Color, and Ruler Units.
| Frame Rate | The speed of the movie |
| Dimension | The size of the Stage |
| Background Color | The color of the Stage |
| Ruler Units | The unit of measure the ruler displays |
You set these properties in the Movie Properties dialog box. To set the properties for the movie you are going to create:
- Choose Modify > Document from the menu. The Document Properties dialog box opens.
- Type 400 px in the Width field.
- Type 400 px in the Height field.
- Click the Background color box and choose white as the background color.
- Type 12 in the Frame Rate field.
- Choose Pixels from the drop-down menu in the Ruler Units field.
- Click OK.
