Introduction Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 are the professional standard authoring tools for producing high-impact web experiences. ActionScript is the language you use to add interactivity to Flash applications, whether your applications are simple animated SWF files or more complex rich Internet applications. Step 1: Open a new project in Flash. Step 2: Draw a circle using an oval shape from the toolbar. Step 3: Create a new layer using Add new layer button on the timeline and name it Guide. Step 4: Draw a line on the stage using the line tool and using the free transform tool modify it to give the curved shape. Step 5: Now select frame 15 on the The file is Macromedia Flash 8 compatible and can be used in any version of Flash and Animate newer than Flash 8. EDAPT Movie Template and KineFox are licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA. They can be used for any personal non-commercial work, school and university projects, animation tests and to learn how to set up your own Flash movies. Macromedia formed in 1992 when Authorware and MacroMind/ParaComp merged. Authorware was a multimedia authoring software company started by Michael Allen in 1985, and MacroMind/ParaComp was a multimedia, design, and visualization software company created by the merger of ParaComp and MacroMind in 1991. During its early years, Macromedia was The Tools menu is probably the most used panel in Flash. In it are the tools needed to manipulate items on the stage. It can also be used to do actions on the timeline. Selection Tool ( v) - Selecting whole objects and moving them. Subselection Tool - Selecting partial objects. Line Tool - Drawing straight lines. Macromedia Flash 8 gives designers a platform to create cartoons, videos, and games that make Web sites dance and sing, and it does so with ease. This Flash upgrade facilitates an evolution in Macromedia Flash 8: Macromedia Flash 8 was released as next version of it in 2005 and new features were graphical filters which can add blur effect, drop shadow effect, glow effects and so on, blend mode for easy blend property, properties of stroke was enchased such as caps and joins added in it, run-time bitmap caching was also added, anti Adding new layer. 1. Right-click on the existing layer, a list with different options will appear, click on insert layer. A new layer with the name Layer 2 will be inserted. 2. Second way to insert a layer is by clicking on Insert then clicking on Timeline and then clicking on Layer, a new layer will be inserted. 3. Macromedia Generator was a server-side application that was developed by Macromedia to automatically generate graphics from Flash-based templates. Originally named Flash Generator, the program ran on JRun and used Macromedia Flash 3 files as templates. Flash Generator entered into public beta testing in May 1998. It was released as Macromedia Generator on August 17, 1998. Once automated, it Browse to find the MP3 file on your hard drive. Select the file and click Open (or Import to Library on the Mac). Then open the Sound Properties dialog box. After you choose the MP3 file and click Open, the sound is imported directly into the library in Flash. TLyS.