Lesson 14 - Delivering Your Final Movie
This chapter will teach students several ways to present their final movies: the Web, CDs, DVDs, and videos.
Exercise 14A: Creating a CD/DVD
Instructions for Students:
Using the completed animation from Lesson 5 (Creating Basic Animation) have students prepare a projector file that can be used in a cross-platform environment. If local resources are available, have them actually burn a CD with the projector file(s). Have them test the following situations: Do projector files run off of the CD/DVD as well as they do on the desktop? How might they structure their CD/DVD folders to help someone unfamiliar with projector files? (For example, they could include a "Read Me" text file. Good file and folder names can also be useful.
Exercise 14B: Preparing a file for full-screen application
Instructions for Students:
Prepare the movie you created in Lesson 03 for projection on a full-sized screen. You will need Actionscript to achieve this.
- If you do not have a layer containing Actions you will need to create one by adding a new layer and renaming it Actions. The right click on the first frame and choose Actions from the context menu.
- Add the following code to the top of your actions: fscommand("fullscreen","true")
- Save your file and publish your file as a projector document. When your Flash movie is opened it will be fullscreen. Pressing the "Esc" key will allow users to exit the fullscreen mode.
Note: This fullscreen code only works when the file is a projector file. The code for running a Flash Movie in a web browser is a bit more involved. Interested students should be directed to the Adobe Forums at http://forums.adobe.com. A search for "fscommand" should return up to date information on the steps involved.
Uploading movies - Optional
Export any of the Flash animations you created using the Export Movie command. Then upload of the movie you created during this training to www.youtube.com. Did the movie change in quality? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this workflow? Be sure to consider file size and download speeds when making decisions during the publishing process.
Save the File as lesson14_your_fl#.fla