Macromedia studio 8-exploring studio 8 User Manual

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Creating Flash content and video
Your Flash content can include graphics, text, animation, and applications 
for websites. Flash content consists primarily of vector graphics, but it can 
also include video, bitmap graphics, and sounds. Because Flash content 
uses compact vector graphics, it downloads rapidly and scales to the 
viewer’s screen size. 
Using Flash, you can animate objects to make them appear to move across 
the Stage, and to change their shape, size, color, opacity, rotation, and 
other properties. You can create frame-by-frame animation, in which you 
designate a separate image for each frame, or tweened animation, in which 
you set the first and last frames of an animation and direct Flash to create 
the frames in between.
You can use Flash to include video on a web page in a format that almost 
anyone can view. In Flash you can seamlessly integrate video into your 
website, and you can create a custom skin with unique controls for your 
video. You can set the size and aspect ratio of your video, and the video can 
dynamically change based on a data source. 
For example, this is how a video player created in Flash might look in a 
web page:
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