Re: FLASH: Re: Am I alone in being frustrated at Flash's userinterface?

[Scott Ewen]

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>tips do you have for these following tasks that are irksome at the moment:



I to feel that FLASH could be a better program but I assume that will 

come in futre versions. As it is. FLASH 4 is a nice step up from 

FLASH 3.


To answer soem of your questions, heres some thing sthat Ive found to work:



>1) moving a selection of a larger animation.


Turn of view ing for all the layers you DONT want to use, select all 

and then turn the other layers back on so you can refernece them as 

you move your selection.


>2) selecting a whole column of frames at once.


If you click on the top frame you want and then scroll down and 

Shift-click on the bottom frame you want, everything else in between 

will be auto selected.


>3) Setting alpha to be zero on a number of items.


It would be  nice to execute duplicate INSTANCE actions on multiple 

symbols at once but due to the nature of the functions, I believe 

that particular functionality would be extremely difficult to program.


4) Keeping spot sounds in synch with action while maintaining a voiceover track


Have you tried attaching the sound to the instance in the Frame 

ACTIONS dialogue box? Also, I think its a good idea to preload your 

movie whenever your going to be using complicated sound structures, 

i.e. multiple sound tracks over one another. It takes a lot of Muscle 

to execute an Audio function and when you start layering them things 

can get wierd real quick.


My 2C anyway.


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