Flash basics:
scenes, layers, breaking apart text, distribute to layers.

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Scene 1: the airplane flies from the bottom left to the top right corner of the screen with a motion tween.

Insert a keyframe in frame 40.
Right-click between the keyframes and create a motion tween
Click here to see the video help for Scene 1

Scene 2: the flower morphs into a butterfly

Insert a blank keyframe in frame 40
Draw a butterfly
Right-click between the keyframes and create a shape tween
Insert a regular frame in frame 50 so the butterfly will stay still for a moment.
Click here to see the video help for Scene 2


Scene 3: separate the person and scooter onto separate layers and make the scooter bump into the rock throwing the person off

  1. Create a new layer.
  2. Cut the person out of layer 1 and put them in the new layer (right click - paste in place)
  3. On the rock layer:
    1. Put a keyframe in frame 50 on the rock layer to make the rock stay still the whole time
  4. On the scooter layer:
    1. Put a keyframe in frame 20 on the scooter layer and move the scooter to bump the rock
    2. Put a keyframe in frame 50 on the scooter layer to make the scooter stay still for the rest of the scene
  5. On the top layer with the person:
    1. Put a keyframe in frame 20 on the person layer and move the person so they are still on the scooter
    2. Put a keyframe in frame 50 on the person layer and move the person to where they will end up, adding rotation to the tween.

Click here to see the video help for Scene 3

Scene 4: The words THE END fly in from all different sides of the stage to come together in the middle.

  1. Use the text tool to write THE END
  2. Modify > Break apart ( for separate letters)
  3. Modify > Timeline > Distribute to layers
  4. Create keyframes for all layers in timeframe 30 (you can drag the mouse down all layers in timeframe 30 and make the keyframes with one click)
  5. Move each letter to a different place in frame 1 and classic tween them to their ending places
  6. Choose the keyframe with the letter "a" in it by clicking on it, then drag it to frame 30
    This frame has the code to make the movie stop playing so it will not repeat continuously

Click here to see the video help for Scene 4