| A | B |
| Morphing | changing one object into another |
| Shape Hints | use them to control the shape's transition appearance during animation |
| Movie Clip | a movie within a movie |
| Shape Tweening | having an animation change the shape of an object to any form you desire |
| Mask Layer | allows you to cover up the objects on one or more layers |
| Sound Effect | is often the only way to convey an idea, elicit an emotion, dramatize a point, and provide feedback to a user |
| Inverse Kinematics | creating an articulated structure of bones that allow you to link the parts of an image |
| 3-D Effect | requires a change in the position of an object |
| Deco Tool | Provides a variety of drawing effects that can be used to quickly create environments |
| Flash Lite | a subset of the flash player, it is optimized for mobile devices such as cell phones |
| Device Central | a program that allows you to test Flash movies on various modules of moblie devices |
| Preview Monitor | enables you to view individual clips or an entire project |
| Storyboard | the default view in Movie Maker. You can use it to look at the sequence or ordering of the clips in your project and easily rearrange them. |
| Task Pane | lists the common tasks that you may need to perform when making a movie |
| Sound | pressure waves of air |
| Digital Recordings | have been sampled so that they can be used by a digital computer |
| Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) | captures a snapshot of the electric voltage on an audio line and represents it as a digital number that can be sent to a computer |
| Production Sound | the raw sound material of a show |
| Sample Rate | the rate at which the samples are captured or played back, measured in Hertz |
| Ambiance | the sound around you |
| Foley | sounds that are clothes rustling, foot steps and objects being handled |
| Effects | usually more heavily edited and recorded from all kinds of places |
| Stop Motion | an animation process using clay or plasticine figures that are moved and filmed using stop-motion photography to creat a lifelike look |
| Armature | a skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay, wax, or plaster figure is constructed |
| Storyboard | a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action adn scene in a planned film, as for a movie, TV show, or advertisement |
| Middle Ground | an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint |
| Jump Cut | an abrupt break in the continuity of a scene created by editing out part of a shot or scene |
| Score | in music, to orchestrate; to write out in score |
| Frame | one of a series of individual exposures on a strip of film used in making motion pictures |