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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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