In class Mon Mar 12th

Required Presentation!

March 14 | 6 p.m. | Anderson Theatre

Frank and Caroline Mouris

Lecture with independent film makers The Mourises will show their Academy award winning animated short, Frank Film together with subsequent film, Frankly Caroline. Frank Film from 1973 is a compilation of images collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither. The soundtrack was created by Tony Schwartz.

also coming up soon!

April 5–12 | Opening:Thursday April 9 | 4:30-6 p.m.

Student Generated Film Series

Digitalvideodrone - Best digital film and animation created by Harwick students over the past 5 years.

* Submit your entry to me. I accept digital files on a USB thumbdrive. I prefer .MOV files at full resolution.

Blogs Show & Tell - Show us the best of what you found so far.

Flash Day 4

Importing a Video into Flash

File --> Import to the stage or Library

Select your video file and click 'Import'

This will bring up the 'Import Video Window'

- Choose 'Embeded FLV in SWF & play in timeline

* if your video is not a FLV file you need to launch the 'Adobe Media Encoder' to encode your video as an FLV

-- Once the Adobe Media Encoder is open, choose 'FLV Flash 8 or higher' from the 'Preset' drop down menu

-- Click 'Start Queue'

-- When the encoding is done Quite Adobe Media Encoder

- This will bring you back to the 'Import Video Window'

- You will need to go find the new .FLV file on your computer in 'File Path' and click 'Continue'

- keep the settings on this page the same a the default and click 'Continue'

- click 'Finish'

The 'Import Video Window' will close and you should see your video on the timeline.

Manipulating the Timeline

---> Edit ---> Timeline ---> Delete Frames [shift + F5], Cut Frames, Copy Frames, Paste Frames

---> Insert ---> Timeline ---> Frame [F5], Keyframe [F6], Blank Keyframe [F7]

* Click and drag on the timeline to select frames

* Command click on a keyframe to move it

- Export Movie

- Publish Settings, Publish Preview, Publish

Flash File types

- FLA = Flash working file. This is the most important file of your project.

- SWF = Flash file for the web. This allows web browsers to see the animation/video.

- MOV = Apple Video File

- Nested Symbols = a symbol embedded in a symbol

Work on Projects!