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Adobe Flash Professional
Flash is a multimedia program used to create animations, games, Web interfaces, and other user experiences.
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Multimedia
Content such as text, graphics, video, animation, and sound that is integrated into technological expression.
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Animation
The illusion of movement created by rapidly displaying a sequence of images.
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Streaming
An online method of playing media before it has downloaded completely.
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Interactive Content
Content that accepts and responds to human actions using multimedia elements.
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Navigational Components
Icons, menus, and similar items that help users navigate a Web page or another application.
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User Interface
The design and appearance of a Web page or other Flash content to users.
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Rich Internet Applications (Ria)
Web applications that function like desktop applications.
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Authoring Tool
A program that creators use to develop and package content for users.
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Documents
Projects created in Flash.
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.Fla
The native Flash file type; file extension for a Flash file.
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.Swf
Stands for Shockwave format and is a published output file from Flash program; used to play movies in a browser.
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Flash Player Plug-In
A program used to play an SWF in a Web page.
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Persistence Of Vision
The capacity of the eye to retain an image for a short period, creating an illusion of continuous motion in film and video.
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Workspace
The Flash program interface area where you work with documents; consist of panels, Timeline, and Document window.
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Stage
An interface element that contains the movie’s elements – text, images, graphics, drawings, and video.
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Project
The source FLA file containing content.
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Pasteboard
An interface element where you can place or store objects that do not yet appear in the movie.
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Timeline
Controls and organizes movie elements by using layers and frames.
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Layers
Individual rows in the Timeline that contain content in a Flash project.
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Frame
An element of the Timeline that.
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Playhead
A Timeline element consisting of a red translucent square that moves through the frames as a movie plays in Flash.
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Panels
Individual windows that control crucial aspects of a project and display content-sensitive information and options.
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Panel Group
Is a bundle of related panels that open as one.
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Properties Panel
Displays the attributes and available options for the selected element on the Stage or in the Timeline.
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Tools Panel
A Flash interface element containing tools to draw, select, modify, and view graphics and text.
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Library Panel
Contains the media used in a project, including video, sound, photos and other graphics.
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Application Bar
An interface element located at the top of the workspace containing Flash commands on the left and workspace and Help options on the right.
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Workspace Switcher
Application bar feature that switches to a different preset workspace configuration.
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Iconic View
Collapsed panels that display only an identifying icon.
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ActionScript
The programming language in Flash that lets you control interactivity and actions in a movie or Web site.
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Loops
A setting that instructs a movie to play repeatedly.
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Frame Rate
A measurement of video-playing speed, expressed in frames per second (fps).
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Scrubbing
Manually dragging the played in the Timeline to play a group of frames on the Stage.
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