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Flash MX tutorial overview

This tutorial guides you through the process of creating a compelling Web experience with Macromedia Flash MX. By completing the tutorial, you'll learn how to design a movie, from opening a new document to publishing the movie for Web playback. The tutorial takes approximately three hours to complete, depending on your experience, and will teach you how to do the following tasks:

Analyze a completed movie

Define document properties and create a gradient

Create and mask vector art

Tween bitmap effects within a movie clip

Load dynamic text

Modify buttons and add navigation

Add streaming and event sounds

Test and publish the movie

We recommend that you complete the eight sections that comprise the tutorial in sequence, although you may choose to review only the sections that interest you. If you do complete the tutorial out of sequence, keep in mind that later sections assume you've mastered skills introduced in earlier sections.