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| Frame | Is a single time-slice of the Flash movie. It is a similar concept to a _____ of a motion picture. _____ are seen in the timeline. |
| Bitmap Raster graphic | A type of file that is stored in a computer as a series of pixels; a photographic image is always stored in flash an _____. These file sizes are larger than vectors so they are stored internally in flash in a compressed format. |
| Timeline | An object on the Flash workspace that contains the sequence of frames, layers, and scenes composing an animation. |
| Symbol | A graphic, Movie Clip, or button that is stored in the Library. These graphic elements that the program stores in memory one time and can be called upon many times without significant hit to file size. |
| Tween | Used as a verb, "to _____ " is to have a change made between two objects. An animation technique in which the frames in-between 2 keyframes are automatically created. |
| Keyframe | A frame in which you establish exactly what should appear on stage at that particular time. |
| Framerate | The rate, stated in frames per second (fps), at which each frame in an animation is played back for the user |
| Cel-based animation | Drawing each image on the computer and getting a piece of software to play back the image in rapid succession. |
| Tween-based | You create the object, define the object’s starting and ending positions; flash drars the steps between the object’s positions. |
| Work area | Gray part of stage; anything in this part will not show up. Will show-up in the white area. Convenient place to place elements and animations that start off-screen. |
| Properties panel | Normally sits at the bottom of the screen. Context sensitive, the info there changes depending on the tools chosen. |
| Toolbar | The place where flash’s many tools reside. |
| Document tabs | Shows tabs for each document opened. You can switch between documents by clicking these. |
| Edit bar | On top of the timeline, shows info re: scenes, symbols, groups and timelines you are editing. |
| Merge | To flatten or put together. Merged object mode; objects and fills are drawn separately and after objects are placed on top of each other they merge, replacing area where graphics merge. |
| Object drawing mode | Objects are drawn as grouped elements. |
| Scrubber | A small square on top of the timeline; you click and drag the to quickly preview tweens and simple animations. |
| Vector | Stores info in a computer format as math info. Can be resized without the loss of quality. Smaller in size but can’t display the richness of a bitmap. |
