Overview

You're about to experience the power of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. You'll see how, in a few minutes, you can create a compelling web experience that combines video, text, graphics, and media control behaviors. In the process, you'll learn about the Flash authoring environment as you accomplish the following tasks:

• Tour the user interface
• Dock and undock panels
• Change the background and Stage size
• Change your view of the Stage
• View your document library
• Add graphics to the Stage
• Add video
• View object properties
• Add video control behaviors
• Use the Movie Explorer to view the document structure
• Test the document
• Find help

Before taking this lesson, we recommend that you read Getting Started, to learn about the Flash workspace. To access Getting Started, select Help > Help and click the Getting Started book in the Help contents.