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Prezi HOTSHOT

By : HLCN Van Groenendaal
Book Image

Prezi HOTSHOT

By: HLCN Van Groenendaal

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Prezi HOTSHOT
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating animations in Flash


Finally, we're ready to create the animations in Flash. It's the best part of all, so let's have some fun!

The following are the animations we'll be creating in this task:

  • Moving the machine

  • Popping out the smoke clouds

  • Rotating the gauge pointers

Note

It's important to know that the Flash animations files will always have an infinite loop in Prezi.

Engage thrusters

It might seem difficult to create animations in Flash. I'll show you it's not that difficult at all!

Moving the machine

We can move the machine by performing the following steps:

  1. Open Adobe Flash Professional and create a new empty file by navigating to Create New | ActionScript 3.0.

  2. Navigate to File | Import | Import to Stage, choose machine.ai, and click on Open.

  3. Set the Convert layers to: Single Flash Layer option and mark the following two options:

    • Place objects at original position

    • Set stage size to same size as Illustrator artboard (172 x 136)

    We need some extra space around the machine, so we will enlarge...